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Dear All
Thanks for the suggestions on how to solve my GUI freezing issues. It
looks like it was a communication problem with coot that was causing my
problems. Editing App.py as below solved my problem.
Adding a preference setting to do this would be useful.
Thanks again
John
Message: 3
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:48:29 -0500
From: Nathaniel Echols
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This is good to know; I'm glad it wasn't symptomatic of a problem with
the code for the GUI itself. It would be good to know if the outgoing
connection is causing problems, or just the incoming connection - the
latter is much less important. For now I will add a preference
setting to disable the "server", and if that still doesn't solve the
problem I'll disable both directions. (I may drop by your lab and ask
to test it next time I'm in Cambridge, because I'd really like to know
what part of Linux is causing socket problems. Are you running a very
restrictive host-based firewall by any chance?)
On Mar 12, 2010, at 12:52, John Berrisford
Dear All
Thanks for the suggestions on how to solve my GUI freezing issues. It looks like it was a communication problem with coot that was causing my problems. Editing App.py as below solved my problem.
Adding a preference setting to do this would be useful.
Thanks again John
Message: 3 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:48:29 -0500 From: Nathaniel Echols
To: PHENIX user mailing list Subject: Re: [phenixbb] phenix gui freezes Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I have one other thought - the GUI listens on a socket for incoming commands from Coot (this isn't used very much at present). Apparently this caused problems on Linux with the old GUI, which also used Python sockets. If something goes wrong here, it could certainly take down the entire program.
To fix this, edit the file $PHENIX/phenix/wxGUI2/App.py, and comment out this line (in 1.6):
self.start_xmlrpc_server()
(if you're new to python, a comment starts with '#'.)
I will add a preferences setting to do this. I can also try slowing down the GUI updates while a process is running (using detached processes should also take care of this).
-- John Berrisford
Medical Research Council Mitochondrial Biology Unit Wellcome Trust / MRC Building Hills Road Cambridge CB2 0XY WEB: www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk TEL: +44 (01223) 252918
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