TK GUI crashes on Fedora 11: TclError: out of stack space (infinite loop?)

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Install Fedora 11 w/ patches
2. Install tkinter library
3. Run namebench
4. Click "Start Benchmark" button.

An example crash can be seen at http://pastebin.com/m4298a72b

The root cause appears to be described at http://bugs.python.org/issue3835 - 
The Tcl/Tk 
libraries shipped with Fedora 11 appear to be compiled without 
--enable-threading. This button 
is being disabled from another thread.

I'm looking for any workarounds I can do now.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by helixblue on 12 Nov 2009 at 7:41

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This issue was closed by revision r297.

Original comment by thomas.r...@gmail.com on 12 Nov 2009 at 7:59

• Changed state: Fixed

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Fixed in revision 297

We now capture the TclError exception when modifying button state, and avoid 
changing the state if problems 
occur. The side effect is that the Start button is no longer disabled during a 
run on affected platforms.

Original comment by helixblue on 12 Nov 2009 at 7:59