Re: [Python-Dev] An infinite loop in dictobject.c

2012-05-24 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Daniel Farina wrote: >> Furthermore, if this is a hand-compiled Python, you could reconfigure >> it --with-pydebug, so as to enable more assertions in the interpreter >> core (this will make it quite a bit slower too :-)). > > Yes, this is my next step, although I

Re: [Python-Dev] An infinite loop in dictobject.c

2012-05-24 Thread Terry Reedy
On 5/24/2012 4:20 PM, Daniel Farina wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Mark Shannon wrote: Please submit a report to the tracker for this. (Add me to the nosy list if you can) http://bugs.python.org/issue14903 However, I cannot add you to the nosy list, as you do not show up in the sea

Re: [Python-Dev] An infinite loop in dictobject.c

2012-05-24 Thread Daniel Farina
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Thu, 24 May 2012 12:11:58 -0700 > Daniel Farina wrote: >> >> Finally, what's especially strange is that I had gone a very long time >> running this exact version of Python, libraries, and application quite >> frequently: it suddenly star

Re: [Python-Dev] An infinite loop in dictobject.c

2012-05-24 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 25, 2012, at 06:07 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >If it only started happening recently, suspicion would naturally fall on >the hash randomisation security fix (as I assume a new version of Python >would have been pushed for 10.04 with that update) I do not think the hash randomization patch has

Re: [Python-Dev] An infinite loop in dictobject.c

2012-05-24 Thread Daniel Farina
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Mark Shannon wrote: > Please submit a report to the tracker for this. > (Add me to the nosy list if you can) http://bugs.python.org/issue14903 However, I cannot add you to the nosy list, as you do not show up in the search. -- fdr _

Re: [Python-Dev] An infinite loop in dictobject.c

2012-05-24 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Thu, 24 May 2012 12:11:58 -0700 Daniel Farina wrote: > > Finally, what's especially strange is that I had gone a very long time > running this exact version of Python, libraries, and application quite > frequently: it suddenly started cropping up a little while ago (maybe > a few weeks). Do y

Re: [Python-Dev] An infinite loop in dictobject.c

2012-05-24 Thread Daniel Farina
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > If it only started happening recently, suspicion would naturally fall on the > hash randomisation security fix (as I assume a new version of Python would > have been pushed for 10.04 with that update) I do not think so; I do not see in in the

Re: [Python-Dev] An infinite loop in dictobject.c

2012-05-24 Thread Nick Coghlan
If it only started happening recently, suspicion would naturally fall on the hash randomisation security fix (as I assume a new version of Python would have been pushed for 10.04 with that update) Cheers, Nick. -- Sent from my phone, thus the relative brevity :) __

Re: [Python-Dev] An infinite loop in dictobject.c

2012-05-24 Thread Mark Shannon
Daniel Farina wrote: Hello all. I seem to be encountering somewhat rare an infinite loop in hash table probing while importing _socket, as triggered by init_socket.c in Python 2.6, as seen/patched shipped with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. The problem only reproduces on 32 bit machines, on both -O2 and -O