Re: Reproducible random python crash.

2009-08-28 Thread Grant Grundler
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 07:36:47PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: ... John David Anglin wrote: Do you have Grant's last patch installed? Although it's early yet to say for sure, I think it may have fixed the random segv problem on gsyprf11 with 2.6.30.5. What patch is that? Link? here --

Re: Reproducible random python crash.

2009-08-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 28 August 2009, Grant Grundler wrote: On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 07:36:47PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: John David Anglin wrote: Do you have Grant's last patch installed? Although it's early yet to say for sure, I think it may have fixed the random segv problem on gsyprf11 with

Re: Reproducible random python crash.

2009-08-24 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 5:21 PM, John David Anglind...@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca wrote: I booted 2.6.30.5 from gsyprf11 because I had one random segv and one command hang while running the GCC testsuite.  I suspect that some hangs are due to dropped signals.  I'm tempted to try the sequence with

Re: Reproducible random python crash.

2009-08-24 Thread John David Anglin
Any idea what might be the cause? No. I looked at two core dumps briefly. In the first, it looked like the PIC register value was corrupt causing a transfer to page 0. In the second, there wasn't any backtrace info (both pc and rp were 0). Unfortunately, this doesn't say much. It would be

Re: Reproducible random python crash.

2009-08-23 Thread John David Anglin
Kyle, Helge, John, James, Could I get each of you to follow this recipe and tell me if python crashes or hangs randomly during the execution of the last step? Recipe: mkdir -p ~/python-test cd ~/python-test apt-get update apt-get build-dep xmms2 apt-get source xmms2 cd

Re: Reproducible random python crash.

2009-08-23 Thread John David Anglin
I booted 2.6.30.5 from gsyprf11 because I had one random segv and one command hang while running the GCC testsuite. I suspect that some hangs are due to dropped signals. I'm tempted to try the sequence with 2.6.22.19. SMP 2.6.22.19 also fails with random segvs and hangs. Dave -- J. David

Reproducible random python crash.

2009-08-21 Thread Carlos O'Donell
Kyle, Helge, John, James, Could I get each of you to follow this recipe and tell me if python crashes or hangs randomly during the execution of the last step? Recipe: mkdir -p ~/python-test cd ~/python-test apt-get update apt-get build-dep xmms2 apt-get source xmms2 cd xmms2_0.6DrMattDestruction

Re: Reproducible random python crash.

2009-08-21 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Carlos O'Donellcar...@systemhalted.org wrote: Could I get each of you to follow this recipe and tell me if python crashes or hangs randomly during the execution of the last step? Recipe: mkdir -p ~/python-test cd ~/python-test apt-get update apt-get

Re: Reproducible random python crash.

2009-08-21 Thread James Bottomley
On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 11:43 -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Carlos O'Donellcar...@systemhalted.org wrote: Could I get each of you to follow this recipe and tell me if python crashes or hangs randomly during the execution of the last step? Recipe: mkdir

Re: Reproducible random python crash.

2009-08-21 Thread John David Anglin
./waf configure --nocache --prefix=/usr --with-mandir=/usr/share/man --with-perl-archdir=/usr/lib/perl5 --with-perl-binary=/usr/bin/perl --with-ruby-archdir=/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/hppa-linux --with-ruby-libdir=/usr/lib/ruby/1.8 --without-optionals=python --without-plugins=mac Running the

Re: Reproducible random python crash.

2009-08-21 Thread Frans Pop
Carlos O'Donell wrote: ./waf configure --nocache --prefix=/usr --with-mandir=/usr/share/man --with-perl-archdir=/usr/lib/perl5 --with-perl-binary=/usr/bin/perl --with-ruby-archdir=/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/hppa-linux --with-ruby-libdir=/usr/lib/ruby/1.8 --without-optionals=python

Re: Reproducible random python crash.

2009-08-21 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:19 PM, John David Anglind...@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca wrote: ./waf configure --nocache --prefix=/usr --with-mandir=/usr/share/man --with-perl-archdir=/usr/lib/perl5 --with-perl-binary=/usr/bin/perl --with-ruby-archdir=/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/hppa-linux

Re: Reproducible random python crash.

2009-08-21 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 3:30 PM, John David Anglind...@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca wrote: On 2.6.31-rc2-00010-g22a5b0c-dirty (kyle's 4 CPU PA8800) I get a hang and segfaults, the segfault is reproducible the hang happens every once in a while. Do you have Grant's last patch installed? =A0Although

Re: Reproducible random python crash.

2009-08-21 Thread John David Anglin
I should have mentioned you need unstable sources (not unstable debs) in your sources.list. e.g. deb-src ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free Does that help? Yes. segvs and hangs on gsyprf11. Think the hangs occur when rerunning configure. I looked at one segv and