Re: [Python-Dev] test_subprocess and sparc buildbots

2009-01-01 Thread Nick Coghlan
Daniel (ajax) Diniz wrote: > Georg Brandl wrote: >> This only occurs --with-pydebug, I assume? > > For me, on 32 bits Linux, yes, only --with-pydebug*. > >> It is the same basic problem as in http://bugs.python.org/issue3299, >> which I analysed some time ago. > > Yes, I guess my 'catch' is exa

Re: [Python-Dev] test_subprocess and sparc buildbots

2009-01-01 Thread Daniel (ajax) Diniz
Georg Brandl wrote: > > This only occurs --with-pydebug, I assume? For me, on 32 bits Linux, yes, only --with-pydebug*. > It is the same basic problem as in http://bugs.python.org/issue3299, > which I analysed some time ago. Yes, I guess my 'catch' is exactly that. But it might be a red herring

Re: [Python-Dev] test_subprocess and sparc buildbots

2009-01-01 Thread Georg Brandl
Alexandre Vassalotti schrieb: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Daniel (ajax) Diniz > wrote: >> A reliable way to get that in a --with-pydebug build seems to be: >> >> ~/py3k$ ./python -c "import locale; locale.format_string(1,1)" >> * ob >> object : >> type: tuple >> refcount: 0 >> addre

Re: [Python-Dev] test_subprocess and sparc buildbots

2008-12-30 Thread Alexandre Vassalotti
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Daniel (ajax) Diniz wrote: > A reliable way to get that in a --with-pydebug build seems to be: > > ~/py3k$ ./python -c "import locale; locale.format_string(1,1)" > * ob > object : > type: tuple > refcount: 0 > address : 0x825c76c > * op->_ob_prev->_ob_next >

Re: [Python-Dev] test_subprocess and sparc buildbots

2008-12-30 Thread Daniel (ajax) Diniz
Alexandre Vassalotti wrote: > The logs of failing test runs all shows the same error message: > > [31481 refs] > * ob > object : > type: str > refcount: 0 > address : 0x3a97728 > * op->_ob_prev->_ob_next > object : > type: str > refcount: 0 > address : 0x3a97728 > * op->_ob_next->_ob_pr

Re: [Python-Dev] test_subprocess and sparc buildbots

2008-12-30 Thread Alexandre Vassalotti
Here is what I found just by analyzing the logs. It seems the first failures appeared after this change: http://svn.python.org/view/python/branches/release30-maint/Objects/object.c?rev=67888&view=diff&r1=67888&r2=67887&p1=python/branches/release30-maint/Objects/object.c&p2=/python/branches/release

[Python-Dev] test_subprocess and sparc buildbots

2008-12-30 Thread Nick Coghlan
Does anyone have local access to a sparc machine to try to track down the ongoing buildbot failures in test_subprocess? (I think the problem is specific to 3.x builds on sparc machines, but I haven't checked the buildbots all that closely - that assessment is just based on what I recall of the bui