Bugs item #2952825, was opened at 2010-02-16 10:10 Message generated for change (Settings changed) made by eighthave You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=478070&aid=2952825...

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Group: v0.42 Status: Pending Resolution: Works For Me

Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Matteo Sisti Sette (sistisette) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: pd hangs in windows Vista and won't work until system reboot

Initial Comment: Sometimes (unfortunately I haven't observed any apparent cause that triggers the problem), I open PD and it won't create a new patch (file/new) nor open any patch (file/open). It won't even quit untill I kill the process, and clicking on "DIO errors" doesn't produce any printout. Furthermore, all menus of the menu bar are empty (only a "--" item) except the File menu.

Even if I kill and restart PD, it won't ever work, untill I reboot the operating system, then everything is fine.

This is PD Vanilla 0.42.5 on Windows Vista.

When it gets "frozen" like this, if I launch it with -lib Gem (I have Gem installed), it won't print the usual Gem output on the console (no output at all). After reboot, everything usually works.

This happens every once in a while, and it is NOT necessary after some crash or anything.

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Comment By: Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave)

Date: 2010-06-01 17:40

Message: - try killing pd.exe in the Windows Task Manager, that has always done it for me

- I haven't been able to reproduce this using recent builds of Pd-extended 0.42.5 on Windows XP and Windows 7.

- otherwise, it sounds like some weirdness with acrotray is the issue

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Comment By: Matteo Sisti Sette (sistisette) Date: 2010-02-16 10:16

Message: I've just found out that killing the "acrotray.exe" process seems to fix the problem: after doing that, PD works fine. Acrotray is something related to Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader. What relation it can have with PD is beyond my understanding.

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