I uninstalled Cygwin and the Windows Python, and reinstalled Cygwin to make sure there's no conflict between the two Python versions. Unfortunately I get the same behavior. As mentioned before, the last statement traced is "func = self._FuncPtr((name_or_ordinal, self))".
On Friday, August 30, 2013 3:14:34 AM UTC+2, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > I think the version in trunk (and the nightly build) does not. > > On Thursday, 29 August 2013 14:36:03 UTC-5, Razvan Teslaru wrote: >> >> Interesting; I tried following the solution outlined there (installed >> xinit, started X Server, export DISPLAY=:0.0), but the behavior remains >> exactly the same. >> >> In any case, ./web2py -a "passwd" (which behaves the same way under X >> too) should not even attempt to bring up any GUI at all. >> >> On Thursday, August 29, 2013 9:03:53 PM UTC+2, Niphlod wrote: >>> >>> isn't it related to tk and cygwin being a little bit stubborn ? >>> see >>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9393462/cannot-launch-git-gui-using-cygwin-on-windows >>> >>> On Thursday, August 29, 2013 4:52:47 PM UTC+2, Razvan Teslaru wrote: >>>> >>>> PS: I have both cygwin python and Windows python installed on the same >>>> machine, if relevant. >>>> >>>> On Thursday, August 29, 2013 3:29:53 PM UTC+2, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I have experienced the same problem. Yet I do not have a >>>>> windows/cygwin machine here to debug it. Can you help us and figure out >>>>> exactly where in gluon/widget.py it gets stuck? >>>>> >>>>> On Thursday, 29 August 2013 08:04:26 UTC-5, Razvan Teslaru wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Update: I managed to trace execution in web2py.py until "import >>>>>> gluon.widget" -- execution doesn't continue in web2py.py after that >>>>>> line, >>>>>> but again, no error message. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thursday, August 29, 2013 12:00:20 AM UTC+2, Razvan Teslaru wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Trying to run web2py under cygwin. Python 2.7.5 installed, plus all >>>>>>> necessary dependencies. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Downloaded and unzipped web2py_src.zip; when running ./web2py, it >>>>>>> hangs for a few seconds and then exits, without any message. Initially >>>>>>> I >>>>>>> thought it might attempt (and fail) to spawn the GUI to get a password, >>>>>>> but >>>>>>> starting it with -a 'passwd' yields the same behavior. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Tried uninstalling the cygwin python and using the regular Windows >>>>>>> python under Cygwin -- now it works as expected, so it appears to be a >>>>>>> Cygwin Python + web2py specific issue, but I'm not sure how to proceed >>>>>>> from >>>>>>> here, without any sort of error message. >>>>>>> >>>>>> -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.