On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:51 PM, Kenneth Graunke <[email protected]> wrote: > A number of people (at least me, cworth, and ajax) have been hitting a > bug where tests randomly fail with a "Bad file descriptor" error. It > only occurs with Python 2.7.4 and 2.7.5. Other people have strangely > not been affected. > > I did some searching and discovered this Python bug: > http://bugs.python.org/issue18851 > > Apparently, it looks like a known bug in Python, where if a > subprocess.Popen fails in one thread, it closes the file descriptors out > from under subprocesses in other threads. > > A fix landed in Mercurial back in August, so hopefully things will work > with Python 2.7.6. According to the release schedule > [http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/] RC1 is supposed to come out > this Saturday, with the final release on November 2nd. > > In the meantime, using Python 2.7.3 works, as does running with the -1 > (--no-concurrency) option.
Thanks for the heads up. Gentoo is now including this patch in =dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r4. _______________________________________________ Piglit mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/piglit
