[MacPorts] #46007: pymol crashes on Yosemite after a while

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#46007: pymol crashes on Yosemite after a while
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  Reporter:  barak.raveh@…  |      Owner:  howarth.at.macports@…
      Type:  defect         |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal         |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports          |    Version:  2.3.3
Resolution:                 |   Keywords:
      Port:  pymol          |
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Comment (by gvdb):

 I found a solution for this and I thought I'd post it here since this is
 the top result in Google for the error message: "Terminating app due to
 uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'NSScreen
 reconfig must only happen on the main thread.'"

 I had literally spent days trying to fix this issue, implementing all the
 suggested fixes here and elsewhere, to no avail. It still kept crashing
 after 2 minutes.

 Eventually I figured out it was related to some user data, but I didn't
 know what exactly. I created a test account on my Mac, ran pymol and the
 crash didn't happen.

 The user data that was causing problems on my regular Mac account was a
 plugin I'd written and installed to pymol. The particular line which was
 causing problems in the plugin was importing the colour map library from
 matplotlib. Once I removed that import (which I wasn't even using in my
 plugin), pymol stopped crashing.

 To any other poor soul that has wasted days trying to fix this crash, I
 hope this helps you. Good luck.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/46007#comment:4>
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