Debugging Perl script using threads fails

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1

Hi!

Not sure if this belongs here, so according to About the Support category , I hope you will tell me.

When I run a script in Komodo IDE that can be found on Perlmonks (http://www.perlmonks.org/?abspart=1;displaytype=displaycode;node_id=585551;part=1), I get an error message:

Modification of a read-only value attempted at C:/Program Files (x86)/ActiveState Komodo IDE 9/lib/support/dbgp/perllib/perl5db.pl line 4380.

Running the very same script on the command prompot without Komodo IDE works fine.

Best regards,
Alex

2

Hi @capfan,

What is the command?

Also, run %perl -v in Tools > Run Command then run the same command without the % in your CMD. This is to make sure Komodo and your terminal are using the same Perl.

What version of Komodo? (Help > About Komodo)
What version of Windows?

  • Carey
3

Hi @careyh,

the command in the command prompt is simply the script, or perl threads-perlmonks.pl.
In the command prompt, I guess this is the Perl used:

> where perl
C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe

In Komodo IDE, I was unfortunately not able to do exactly what you wanted. Running Tools > Run Command > %perl -v yields an error: Unknown error running: 'c:\perl\bin\perl.exe -v'.
In the Komodo IDE log file, the following occurs:

[2015-10-01 09:18:05,861] [INFO] Startup: Welcome to Komodo IDE 9.2.1 build 87651 (platform win32-x86, running on Windows post2012Server version 6.3.9600)
[2015-10-01 09:18:05,878] [INFO] Startup: C:\Program Files (x86)\ActiveState Komodo IDE 9\lib\mozilla\komodo.exe built on Tue Sep 01 17:19:15 2015
[2015-10-01 09:18:06,720] [WARNING] console-logger: mutating the [[Prototype]] of an object will cause your code to run very slowly; instead create the object with the correct initial [[Prototype]] value using Object.create (1) in resource://gre/modules/Preferences.jsm:381
[2015-10-01 09:18:06,783] [WARNING] root: ko.logging has been converted to a CommonJS module; use require("ko/logging") instead (since Komodo 9.0.0a1).
    @chrome://komodo/content/komodo.js:15:1

[2015-10-01 09:18:07,440] [ERROR] console-logger: bad script XDR magic number (0) in :0
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 0, in 

[2015-10-01 09:18:08,970] [WARNING] root: ko.findresults was already loaded, re-creating it.

[2015-10-01 09:18:10,581] [WARNING] console-logger: mutating the [[Prototype]] of an object will cause your code to run very slowly; instead create the object with the correct initial [[Prototype]] value using Object.create (1) in file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/ActiveState%20Komodo%20IDE%209/lib/mozilla/components/koamAddonManager.js:138
[2015-10-01 09:18:11,533] [INFO] komodospellchecker: Spell checker loaded.
[2015-10-01 09:18:11,533] [INFO] komodospellchecker: Using dictionary en-US
[2015-10-01 09:18:28,671] [WARNING] console-logger: Key event not available on GTK2: key="u" modifiers="control,shift" (1) in chrome://komodo/content/komodo.xul:0
[2015-10-01 09:18:28,671] [WARNING] console-logger: Key event not available on some keyboard layouts: key="v" modifiers="control,alt" (1) in chrome://komodo/content/komodo.xul:0
[2015-10-01 09:18:32,845] [WARNING] koLanguageServiceBase: Found non-positive guess
[2015-10-01 09:18:32,845] [WARNING] koLanguageServiceBase: Found non-positive guess
[2015-10-01 09:18:32,845] [WARNING] koLanguageServiceBase: Found non-positive guess
[2015-10-01 09:18:32,848] [WARNING] koLanguageServiceBase: Found non-positive guess
[2015-10-01 09:18:32,849] [WARNING] koLanguageServiceBase: Found non-positive guess
[2015-10-01 09:18:32,851] [WARNING] koLanguageServiceBase: Found non-positive guess
[2015-10-01 09:18:32,851] [WARNING] koLanguageServiceBase: Found non-positive guess
[2015-10-01 09:18:32,851] [WARNING] koLanguageServiceBase: Found non-positive guess
[2015-10-01 09:18:32,852] [WARNING] koLanguageServiceBase: Found non-positive guess
[2015-10-01 09:18:32,854] [WARNING] koLanguageServiceBase: Found non-positive guess
[2015-10-01 09:18:32,855] [WARNING] koLanguageServiceBase: Found non-positive guess
[2015-10-01 09:18:32,855] [WARNING] koLanguageServiceBase: Found non-positive guess
[2015-10-01 09:18:32,857] [WARNING] koLanguageServiceBase: Found non-positive guess
[2015-10-01 09:18:32,858] [WARNING] koLanguageServiceBase: Found non-positive guess
[2015-10-01 09:18:32,858] [WARNING] koLanguageServiceBase: Found non-positive guess
[2015-10-01 09:18:32,858] [WARNING] koLanguageServiceBase: Found non-positive guess
[2015-10-01 09:18:32,859] [WARNING] koLanguageServiceBase: Found non-positive guess
[2015-10-01 09:18:32,861] [WARNING] koLanguageServiceBase: Found non-positive guess
[2015-10-01 09:18:32,861] [WARNING] koLanguageServiceBase: Found non-positive guess
[2015-10-01 09:18:32,862] [WARNING] koLanguageServiceBase: Found non-positive guess
[2015-10-01 09:18:32,864] [WARNING] koLanguageServiceBase: Found non-positive guess
[2015-10-01 09:18:32,865] [WARNING] koLanguageServiceBase: Found non-positive guess
[2015-10-01 09:18:32,865] [WARNING] koLanguageServiceBase: Found non-positive guess
[2015-10-01 09:18:32,867] [WARNING] koLanguageServiceBase: Found non-positive guess
[2015-10-01 09:18:32,868] [WARNING] koLanguageServiceBase: Found non-positive guess
[2015-10-01 09:18:32,868] [WARNING] koLanguageServiceBase: Found non-positive guess
[2015-10-01 09:18:32,868] [WARNING] koLanguageServiceBase: Found non-positive guess
[2015-10-01 09:18:32,869] [WARNING] koLanguageServiceBase: Found non-positive guess
[2015-10-01 09:18:32,869] [WARNING] koLanguageServiceBase: Found non-positive guess
[2015-10-01 09:23:33,220] [ERROR] dbgp.server: session cmdloop exception - sending session stop command
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\ActiveState Komodo IDE 9\lib\mozilla\python\komodo\dbgp\serverBase.py", line 66, in _cmdloop
    self._handleIncoming()
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\ActiveState Komodo IDE 9\lib\mozilla\python\komodo\dbgp\serverBase.py", line 140, in _handleIncoming
    newdata = self._socket.recv(1024)
error: [Errno 10054] An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host
[2015-10-01 09:23:44,647] [ERROR] process: process.py: can't execute None (C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe; /c c:\perl\bin\perl.exe -v)
ERROR:xpcom:Unhandled exception calling 'int8 * RunInTerminal(in wstring, in wstring, in wstring, in nsISomething, in nsISomething, in unicode &, out retval nsISomething);'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\ActiveState Komodo IDE 9\lib\mozilla\python\xpcom\server\policy.py", line 300, in _CallMethod_
    return 0, func(*params)
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\ActiveState Komodo IDE 9\lib\mozilla\components\koRunService.py", line 935, in RunInTerminal
    p = runutils.KoTerminalProcess(command, cwd=cwd, env=envDict)
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\ActiveState Komodo IDE 9\lib\mozilla\python\komodo\runutils.py", line 150, in __init__
    self._process = process.ProcessOpen(cmd, cwd=cwd, env=env)
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\ActiveState Komodo IDE 9\lib\mozilla\python\komodo\process.py", line 319, in __init__
    creationflags=flags)
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\ActiveState Komodo IDE 9\lib\python\lib\subprocess.py", line 711, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\ActiveState Komodo IDE 9\lib\mozilla\python\komodo\process.py", line 139, in _execute_child
    startupinfo)
WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified
[2015-10-01 09:24:01,240] [ERROR] process: process.py: can't execute None (C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe; /c c:\perl\bin\perl.exe -v)
ERROR:xpcom:Unhandled exception calling 'int8 * RunInTerminal(in wstring, in wstring, in wstring, in nsISomething, in nsISomething, in unicode &, out retval nsISomething);'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\ActiveState Komodo IDE 9\lib\mozilla\python\xpcom\server\policy.py", line 300, in _CallMethod_
    return 0, func(*params)
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\ActiveState Komodo IDE 9\lib\mozilla\components\koRunService.py", line 935, in RunInTerminal
    p = runutils.KoTerminalProcess(command, cwd=cwd, env=envDict)
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\ActiveState Komodo IDE 9\lib\mozilla\python\komodo\runutils.py", line 150, in __init__
    self._process = process.ProcessOpen(cmd, cwd=cwd, env=env)
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\ActiveState Komodo IDE 9\lib\mozilla\python\komodo\process.py", line 319, in __init__
    creationflags=flags)
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\ActiveState Komodo IDE 9\lib\python\lib\subprocess.py", line 711, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\ActiveState Komodo IDE 9\lib\mozilla\python\komodo\process.py", line 139, in _execute_child
    startupinfo)
WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified
[2015-10-01 09:24:38,144] [WARNING] console-logger: Key event not available on GTK2: key="u" modifiers="control,shift" (1) in chrome://komodo/content/tail/tail.xul:0
[2015-10-01 09:24:38,144] [WARNING] console-logger: Key event not available on some keyboard layouts: key="v" modifiers="control,alt" (1) in chrome://komodo/content/tail/tail.xul:0

This is Komodo IDE, version 9.2.1, build 87651, platform win32-x86.
Built on Tue Sep 01 17:19:15 2015.

The OS is Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64.

I did a complete reset and re-installation recently. So I’m a bit lost now how to proceed :frowning:

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Could you explain the “using threads” portion of your title?

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Sure.

The script I mentioned uses threads:

# Libraries
use threads;
use threads::shared;
use Thread::Queue;

Scripts that do not use threads work fine. I did have this issue in the past when coding threaded GUI applications, so I assumed it was relevant.

6

@capfan Were you able to debug your threading Perl code in Komodo?
I am having a similar problem.
I am disappointed that no one at Active State has contributed to the discussion.

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Hi @jrheisey,

no, I did not find a solution to this issue yet, sorry.

About your disappointment: Clarification is needed: ActiveState did contribute to the discussion, they did simply not yet manage to do something about it.

I started learning C# for the threaded stuff. The language has its quirks, too, but at least, the IDEs do work flawlessly.

8

This happens with threads if they go silent. We must have missed your last reply @capfan. Apologies for that. No we haven’t made progress on this issue.

@jrheisey, when you’ve filed a new bug report please post it back here.

  • Carey
9

Here is a bug report.