From 373f24e64b52aea6ad9dc5caeb9073e728abec2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Micah Lee <micah@micahflee.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 13:27:59 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Sleep between launching threads in onionshare-gui, preventing
 a cx_Freeze crash related to loading the same modules in multiple threads
 while they're locked

---
 onionshare_gui/onionshare_gui.py | 18 ++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/onionshare_gui/onionshare_gui.py b/onionshare_gui/onionshare_gui.py
index 032140d5..cbda5431 100644
--- a/onionshare_gui/onionshare_gui.py
+++ b/onionshare_gui/onionshare_gui.py
@@ -144,6 +144,13 @@ class OnionShareGui(QtWidgets.QMainWindow):
         # pick an available local port for the http service to listen on
         self.app.choose_port()
 
+        # start onionshare http service in new thread
+        t = threading.Thread(target=web.start, args=(self.app.port, self.app.stay_open, self.app.transparent_torification))
+        t.daemon = True
+        t.start()
+        # wait for modules in thread to load, preventing a thread-related cx_Freeze crash
+        time.sleep(0.2)
+
         # start the onion service in a new thread
         def start_onion_service(self):
             self.status_bar.showMessage(strings._('gui_starting_server1', True))
@@ -155,14 +162,9 @@ class OnionShareGui(QtWidgets.QMainWindow):
                 self.starting_server_error.emit(e.args[0])
                 return
 
-        t1 = threading.Thread(target=start_onion_service, kwargs={'self': self})
-        t1.daemon = True
-        t1.start()
-
-        # start onionshare http service in new thread
-        t2 = threading.Thread(target=web.start, args=(self.app.port, self.app.stay_open, self.app.transparent_torification))
-        t2.daemon = True
-        t2.start()
+        t = threading.Thread(target=start_onion_service, kwargs={'self': self})
+        t.daemon = True
+        t.start()
 
     def start_server_step2(self):
         """