{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/1640","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/1640/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/1640/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/1640/events","html_url":"https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/1640","id":57977017,"number":1640,"title":"Spyder hangs during (before) startup","user":{"login":"spyder-issues-migrator","id":11021581,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/11021581?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/spyder-issues-migrator","html_url":"https://github.com/spyder-issues-migrator","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/spyder-issues-migrator/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/spyder-issues-migrator/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/spyder-issues-migrator/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/spyder-issues-migrator/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/spyder-issues-migrator/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/spyder-issues-migrator/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/spyder-issues-migrator/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/spyder-issues-migrator/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/spyder-issues-migrator/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/spyder-ide/spyder/labels/2%E2%80%935%20stars","name":"2–5 stars","color":"FFFFFF"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/spyder-ide/spyder/labels/bug","name":"bug","color":"fc2929"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/spyder-ide/spyder/labels/imported","name":"imported","color":"FFFFFF"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-02-17T20:26:00Z","updated_at":"2015-02-17T20:26:00Z","closed_at":null,"body":"_From [joostdel...@gmail.com](https://code.google.com/u/113970803338771488720/) on 2013-11-11T04:32:21Z_\n\nSpyder Version:  2.2.3\r\nPython Version:  2.7.5\r\nQt Version    :  4.8.4, PyQt4 (API v2) 4.9.6 on Windows\r\npyflakes 0.5.0     :  None (OK)\r\npep8 >=0.6         :  None (NOK)\r\nIPython >=0.13;<1.0:  0.13.2 (OK)\r\nrope >=0.9.2       :  0.9.4 (OK)\r\nsphinx >=0.6.6     :  1.1.3 (OK)\r\nmatplotlib >=1.0   :  1.3.0 (OK)\r\nsympy >=0.7.0      :  0.7.3 (OK)\r\npylint >=0.25      :  0.28.0 (OK) \n\nWhat steps will reproduce the problem?\n\n 1. install winpython distribution \r\n2. start spyder from either .exe in main winpython dir, or bat in scripts 3. What is the expected output? What do you see instead? Instead of startup of Spyder, app hangs in dos-box. \n\nPlease provide any additional information below\n\n. Win7, 64bit. Problem started after some time. No admin privs. \r\n\r\n\\<ctrl>-c gives a traceback:\r\nTraceback (most recent call last):\r\n  File \"<stdin>\", line 1, in \\<module>\r\n  File \"D:\\WinPython-64bit-2.7.5.3\\python-2.7.5.amd64\\lib\\site-packages\\spyderli\r\nb\\start_app.py\", line 70, in main\r\n    if not lock.lock():\r\n  File \"D:\\WinPython-64bit-2.7.5.3\\python-2.7.5.amd64\\lib\\site-packages\\spyderli\r\nb\\utils\\external\\lockfile.py\", line 153, in lock\r\n    pid = readlink(self.name)\r\n  File \"D:\\WinPython-64bit-2.7.5.3\\python-2.7.5.amd64\\lib\\site-packages\\spyderli\r\nb\\utils\\external\\lockfile.py\", line 89, in readlink\r\n    fObj = _open(os.path.join(filename,'symlink'), 'rb')\r\n  File \"D:\\WinPython-64bit-2.7.5.3\\python-2.7.5.amd64\\lib\\ntpath.py\", line 73, i\r\nn join\r\n    elif isabs(b):\r\n  File \"D:\\WinPython-64bit-2.7.5.3\\python-2.7.5.amd64\\lib\\ntpath.py\", line 58, i\r\nn isabs\r\n    return s != '' and s[:1] in '/\\\\'\r\nKeyboardInterrupt\r\n\r\nUncommenting most stuff in start_app, foregoing the lock-file stuff, to just:\r\n    options, args = get_options()\r\n    from spyderlib import spyder\r\n    spyder.main()\r\nfixes the problem.\n\n_Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/issues/detail?id=1640_"}}