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POL first startup hangs in a loop [solved]

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gimpel Thursday 22 January 2009 at 23:29
gimpelAnonymous

Hi,

When I start latest POL, it just hangs there, and no GUI shows up. This would be a first startup, no configs from previous versions there...

Adding "set -x" in the startup script, I see that it runs in a loop doing something.
+++ cat /home/tom/.PlayOnLinux/configurations/guis/fQMWB3PIKO1occLv6X0qBnOom4uaKq4PxkSA3VODHHQD0ZXU90
++ MESSAGE=
++ sleep 0.1
++ '[' '!' '' = MsgOut ']'
+++ cat /home/tom/.PlayOnLinux/configurations/guis/fQMWB3PIKO1occLv6X0qBnOom4uaKq4PxkSA3VODHHQD0ZXU90
+++ grep '^MsgOut$'
++ MESSAGE=
++ sleep 0.1
++ '[' '!' '' = MsgOut ']'
+++ cat /home/tom/.PlayOnLinux/configurations/guis/fQMWB3PIKO1occLv6X0qBnOom4uaKq4PxkSA3VODHHQD0ZXU90
+++ grep '^MsgOut$'
++ MESSAGE=
++ sleep 0.1

and so on and on and on...

This is the content of ~/.PlayOnLinux/configurations
/guis/fQMWB3PIKO1occLv6X0qBnOom4uaKq4PxkSA3VODHHQD0ZXU90
MsgIn
free_presentation
First use of PlayOnLinux
Welcome in PlayOnLinux first use assistant. Please ensure you are connected to the Internet.

.. but that first use assistant never shows up

Edited by gimpel

gimpel Thursday 22 January 2009 at 23:39
gimpelAnonymous

Ok, nevermind. Seems it was some bug in python.

There was some update available, and afterwards POL worked fine. Geez.