On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Mark Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Neal Norwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
>
> > I think this is possible, though considerable work. Probably the
> > biggest win will be creating a mock for socket and using mock sockets
> > in the tests for asyn{core,chat}, smtplib, xmlrpc, etc. That will fix
> > about 75% of the problems on 2.6. The remaining problems are:
> >
> > * test_asyn{chat,core} might not be meaningful with mock sockets and are
> flaky
> > * the alpha fails test_signal/socket for weird alarm conditions.
> > this might be hard to debug/fix (I have access to this box though)
> > * test_sqlite is broken on x86 with an old sqlite (I have access to this
> box)
> > * test_bsddb may be flaky, I'm not sure
> > * probably a few platform specific problems
> >
>
>
> test_tokenize is also currently (sometimes) failing on many of the bots.
> I've been looking into it, but I'm struggling to find the problem. The
> traceback e.g. for the amd64 gentoo buildbot ends with
>
> File "/home/buildbot/slave/py-build/3.0.norwitz-amd64/build/Lib/io.py",
> line 1081, in decode
> output = self.decoder.decode(input, final=final)
> File "/home/buildbot/slave/py-build/3.0.norwitz-amd64/build/Lib/codecs.py",
> line 291, in decode
> (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position
> 12-15: invalid data
>
> On my own machine (SuSE 9.3/i686) I'm seeing this test pass about 80%
> of the time and fail the other 20% with something like the above,
> the position of the reported invalid data changing from run to run. It
> looks like data are getting corrupted somewhere along the line.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
Yeah, sounds like a memory issue. Did you try running with valgrind
or purify? I haven't done so for a long time, perhaps never on 3k
branch. It would be a good thing to run a tool soon.
n
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