[HelAu]

Hi,
My Python shell just hung up on my N82. I have a white screen and have to restart the handy. Is there another way to kill a hanging application ( like a task manager ).

[hurenkam]

You could try pressing the red button, it helps in many (but not all) cases.

Mark.

[gaba88]

hi HelAu
or you can just press the menu button and then followed by the c button you will exit from the app.
but why the shell hangs up??

Enjoy Pythoning
Gaba88

[croozeus]

Originally Posted by HelAu

Hi,
My Python shell just hung up on my N82. I have a white screen and have to restart the handy. Is there another way to kill a hanging application ( like a task manager ).

Hi HelAu,

You can use a third party freeware to do this.

Seach about Handy Task Man.

And here is some more information and a cool video on the same.

Hope it helps,

Best Regards,
Croozeus

[shubhendra]

I think Croozeus HelAu is talking about "Python Shell" hanging up instead of Hanging up due to infinte loops.

[HelAu]

Hi,
I don't know if the application hangs or the python shell ( it happens sometimes after stopping an application ).
I installed the jbak Taskmanager and now I am able to kill Python and restart it

[croozeus]

Originally Posted by HelAu

Hi,
I don't know if the application hangs or the python shell ( it happens sometimes after stopping an application ).
I installed the jbak Taskmanager and now I am able to kill Python and restart it

Rather to kill the process and restart it, you should investigate why it hangs. May be that could help more than a task manager

Best Regards,
Croozeus

[HelAu]

A task manager like this is always helpful
And it saves me some minutes, because without it I have to reboot to use python again.

[shubhendra]

If it happens sometimes after you stop an application, then its most probably due to application programming bug.

[sagars]

Originally Posted by croozeus

Rather to kill the process and restart it, you should investigate why it hangs. May be that could help more than a task manager

Best Regards,
Croozeus

As i found if we are running a python script and without closing the running script if we move to another application(Reading message,installing another script) and again returned to python
and exited from python.After this for next time python may give problen to open.
using "menu key" long press plus "c" key also will not help much . you must have to restart mobile.
i have already posted a thread regarding this but till today i am also facing the same problem.

[croozeus]

Originally Posted by sagars

As i found if we are running a python script and without closing the running script if we move to another application(Reading message,installing another script) and again returned to python
and exited from python.After this for next time python may give problen to open.
using "menu key" long press plus "c" key also will not help much . you must have to restart mobile.
i have already posted a thread regarding this but till today i am also facing the same problem.

I tried that, no problems in my case.

I tried on N95 and Nokia 6680.

What device does this problem occur ?

Best Regards,
Croozeus

[sagars]

Originally Posted by croozeus

I tried that, no problems in my case.

I tried on N95 and Nokia 6680.

What device does this problem occur ?

Best Regards,
Croozeus

i m having 6600, it gives such problem.

[croozeus]

Originally Posted by sagars

i m having 6600, it gives such problem.

May be because of the script you are running. IMHO, this may happen if the script has infinite loop which it cannot terminate.

Anyone else can try it on his device ?

Best Regards,
Croozeus

[JOM]

Originally Posted by sagars

As i found if we are running a python script and without closing the running script if we move to another application(Reading message,installing another script) and again returned to python
and exited from python.After this for next time python may give problen to open.

I would guess it's related to resource usage. Do you have lots/big graphics files, databases, audio/video resources in use? Several temporary internal buffers? All of keys binded to something?

When you do exit, verify that you release everything you opened, created or reserved. Sometimes it helps, if you "free" some of the resources, which PyS60 is supposed to free by itself...

Btw if you do reserve a lot of memory and start another app (or several), then Symbian OS might be sending a "kill" event to python in an attempt to gather enough memory for the new just launched app. I didn't check, if python listens to that event. If it does, it might be trying to terminate your script, which brings us back to clean exit problem.

Hope this helps,

--jouni