[Pipet Devel] Could not contact the dl, it appears not to be started.

[J.W. Bizzaro]

I get the following error occasionally, for no apparent reason.  And it seems
a little odd that the error says, "it appears not to be started", when Piper
should take care of starting the DL automagically.

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jeff at dexter:jeff> piper
jeff at dexter:jeff> Starting definition layer...
Starting pied...
Getting document...
Could not contact the dl, it appears not to be started.
The dl must be running before the Gnome user interface.

jeff at dexter:jeff> ps -aux | grep python
jeff     11279 18.6 10.3 10236 6528 pts/1    S    15:37   0:03 python
startdl.py
jeff     11282  0.0 10.3 10236 6528 pts/1    S    15:37   0:00 python
startdl.py
jeff     11283  0.0 10.3 10236 6528 pts/1    S    15:37   0:00 python
startdl.py
jeff     11284  0.0 10.3 10236 6528 pts/1    S    15:37   0:00 python
startdl.py
jeff     11285  0.0 10.3 10236 6528 pts/1    S    15:37   0:00 python
startdl.py
jeff     11291  0.0 10.3 10236 6528 pts/1    S    15:37   0:00 python
startdl.py
jeff     11292  0.0 10.3 10236 6528 pts/1    S    15:37   0:00 python
startdl.py
jeff     11293  0.0 10.3 10236 6528 pts/1    S    15:37   0:00 python
startdl.py
jeff     11294  0.0 10.3 10236 6528 pts/1    S    15:37   0:00 python
startdl.py
jeff at dexter:jeff> 
jeff at dexter:jeff> shutting down dl...
Unhandled exception in thread:
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/var/tmp/python/python-root/usr/lib/python1.5/threading.py", line 392,
in __bootstrap
  File "/var/tmp/python/python-root/usr/lib/python1.5/threading.py", line 401,
in __delete
AttributeError: 'None' object has no attribute 'acquire'
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Jeff
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J.W. Bizzaro                                           jeff at bioinformatics.org
Director, Bioinformatics.org: The Open Lab     http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff
"Let the machine do the dirty work." -- Kernighan and Ritchie
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