Re: mod_python 3.2.5b available for testing

[Jim Gallacher]

John McFarlane wrote:
Not sure if this is helpfull, but here goes...

To run test.py I did the following:

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user# sudo emerge -a mod_python
user# tar zxvf mod_python-3.2.5b.tgz
user# cd mod_python-3.2.5b
user# ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs2
user# cp /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_python.so src
user# cd test && python test.py

After which I received the following results:

Gentoo (current)
Apache 2.0.54
Python 2.4
GCC 3.3.6

*Note: I don't have "ab" which is needed for the global_lock test?*
======================================================================
FAIL: test_Session_Session (__main__.PerRequestTestCase)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 1472, in test_Session_Session
    self.fail("session did not set a cookie")
AssertionError: session did not set a cookie

Is there any chance /tmp/mp_sess.dbm already exists but with a different 
owner than the user running the tests?

Try the following in the test directory:

grep DBAccessError logs/error_log

My guess is you'll see 'Permission denied' popping up.

This makes me realize that there is a flaw in this test. The default 
location for mp_sess.db is /tmp so if a user is already running 
mod_python with sessions there will be a conflict. We should use 
'PythonOption session_directory' to specify a location which will not 
conflict. How about test/tmp or test/var? We could stick our other 
temporary files in there as well and then do a cleanup at the successful 
completion of the tests.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 43 tests in 19.479s

FAILED (failures=1, errors=1)
F  Stopping Apache...
     /usr/sbin/apache2 -k stop -f
/home/jmcfarlane/Desktop/mod_python-3.2.5b/test/conf/test.conf

======================================================================
FAIL: test_global_lock (__main__.PerInstanceTestCase)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 1747, in test_global_lock
    self.fail("global_lock is broken (too quick)")
AssertionError: global_lock is broken (too quick)

This failure is not a suprise since you don't have ab. We need to make 
this test conditional on ab being found or perhaps in a future release 
provide an alternative to ab in pure python.

Jim