I think I've seen this too when running the bsddb3 unittest. I think it's caused by a previous test ending badly and leaving junk behind that the test suite doesn't properly remove before starting. But I don't recall the details.
--Guido On Dec 5, 2007 5:24 PM, Gregory P. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd expect 4.5 to work fine but I don't know why you're getting such a > strange error, i've never seen that. fwiw i suggest people avoid > berkeleydb 4.6 for now. > > > On 12/3/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I noticed that test_anydbm and test_bsddb seemed to hang, so I -x'd them. > > Later on while test_whichdb was running and I was off doing something else > > (so didn't notice the delay), it eventually spewed this traceback: > > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "/Users/skip/src/python/trunk/Lib/test/test_whichdb.py", line > > 49, in test_whichdb_name > > f = mod.open(_fname, 'c') > > File "/Users/skip/src/python/trunk/Lib/dbhash.py", line 16, in open > > return bsddb.hashopen(file, flag, mode) > > File "/Users/skip/src/python/trunk/Lib/bsddb/__init__.py", line 310, > > in hashopen > > d.open(file, db.DB_HASH, flags, mode) > > DBFileExistsError: (17, 'File exists -- __fop_file_setup: Retry limit > > (100) exceeded') > > > > Looking at _bsddb.so I see it's linked against Berkeley DB 4.5. This is on > > Mac OSX 10.4.11 using the MacPorts version of Berkeley DB (4.5.20). Have I > > somehow strayed out of the support cocoon without realizing it? I wouldn't > > have thought so, since the max version listed in setup.py is 4.6. > > > > Thx, > > > > Skip > > _______________________________________________ > > Python-Dev mailing list > > Python-Dev@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > > Unsubscribe: > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/greg%40krypto.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
