[PyKDE] pyqt/mysqld thread deadlock

[Kaleb Pederson]

On Wednesday 01 January 2003 01:42 pm, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Kaleb Pederson wrote:
> > (gdb) thread 1
> > #0  0x4024b1be in select () from /lib/libc.so.6
>
> [...]
>
> > #16 0x080a81d2 in PyImport_ImportModuleEx (name=0x818a924
> > "gem.src.gui.gui", globals=0x8145154, locals=0x8145154,
> > fromlist=0x8114484) at
> > Python/import.c:1658
>
> [...]
>
> >>From my limited knowledge of the Python interpreter, it looks like the
> >> lock
> >
> > only gets acquired once in the third thread.  In which case, there would
> > be no reason for it to block.  But, the first thread also had some
> > relevant import calls, so I'm not sure.  Where do I look now?
>
> See the source of PyImport_ImportModuleEx. It acquires the import lock,
> so you are holding the import lock while QApplication_exec_loop is
> running. That means you deadlock.
>
> gem.src.gui.gui should not run the mainloop, but expose a function to
> run the mainloop, which the importer of gui should then invoke.
>
> Regards,
> Martin


Ahh.  I'm going to change that right now.  I'll let you know.  Thank you.

--Kaleb