Bugs item #2952825, was opened at 2010-02-16 10:10 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by eighthave You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=478070&aid=2952825...
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: puredata 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 21:15
Message: Sounds to me like a problem with your windows install. Can you provide step-by-step instructions to make it happen everytime?
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Comment By: Matteo Sisti Sette (sistisette) Date: 2010-06-01 19:45
Message: It's not always acrotray.exe. It has happened to me that killing acrotray.exe didn't fix it and killing some other apparently random process did.
And no, killing pd.exe does not fix it. When this happens, I have to kill random processes (well not actually random: I try to kill those that i know or guess that are useless or safe to kill) until I find one that works,
I'm not sure whether killing other processes without _also_ restarting Pd works, because usually it goes as follows: - first I restart Pd, and it's frozen again - I close it, kill some process and open Pd again - and so on, until it works.
Well, for this same reason maybe I didn't actually try killing pd.exe with the task manager, but I certainly did check the task manager to ensure there was no extra pd.exe process.
Note that these freezings I'm talking about are ALWAYS at Pd startup: I start Pd and it's already frozen. It has never happened to me that it hangs like this (and won't recover afret restart).
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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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