[omniORB] omniORBpy lock-up

[Duncan Grisby]

On Sunday 8 July, "Eric C. Newton" wrote:

[...]
> Sometimes there's a KeyError exception between the thr_acq and the
> thr_rel.  Shortly after this occurs, my server locks up because the
> lock is never released.
> 
> I changed the code to:

[...]
> This only releases the lock and prints the error.  I'm not really sure
> what's going on.  Never happens under Linux (RedHat 7.1) on the same
> machine, but happens frequently on WindowsME.

How odd. What traceback do you get?  I think it's a good idea to add
the try..finally for robustness, but I think that's just masking a
more serious problem. Something somewhere has become confused about a
thread's thread id.

Is anyone successfully running omniORBpy on Windows ME?

Cheers,

Duncan.

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