On Sunday 04 May 2008, luis jure wrote:
> hello list,
>
> recently i began having problems when trying to run gaupol, a subtitle
> editor. it fails thus:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/bin/gaupol", line 18, in <module>
>   import gaupol.gtk
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gaupol/gtk/__init__.py", line
> 44, in <module> gobject.threads_init()
> RuntimeError: pygtk threading disabled at compile time
>
>
> yesterday i installed deluge (a bittorrent client) and it crashes with
> the same error:
>
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/deluge/interface.py", line
> 1041, in start gobject.threads_init()
> RuntimeError: pygtk threading disabled at compile time
>
> i searched the web but i couldn't find anything useful. supposedly this
> happens when pygtk is compiled without threads support, but the ebuild
> doesn't have an USE option for threads, and when it compiles i see the
> option --enable-threads flashing by, so i guess pygtk *should* have
> threads enabled. any ideas?

I assume that you have tried the basics like /usr/sbin/python-updater and
revdep-rebuild -X -v -p ?
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Regards,
Mick