Re: [Zope-dev] Core Dump (Zope 2.7, Python 2.3.3, FreeBSD 4.5)

2004-02-20 Thread Dieter Maurer
Dieter Maurer wrote at 2004-2-19 19:52 +0100: We have a report for Zope 2.7 about an object magically turning into None (1 or 2 weeks ago). A similar problem was discovered recently by a colleague. I started analysing it today. It turned out that objects are non-deterministically converted into

Re: [Zope-dev] Core Dump (Zope 2.7, Python 2.3.3, FreeBSD 4.5)

2004-02-19 Thread Dieter Maurer
We have a report for Zope 2.7 about an object magically turning into None (1 or 2 weeks ago). A similar problem was discovered recently by a colleague. I started analysing it today. It turned out that objects are non-deterministically converted into None. I have seen such behaviour in the past

Re: [Zope-dev] Core Dump (Zope 2.7, Python 2.3.3, FreeBSD 4.5)

2004-02-19 Thread Jeremy Hylton
Dieter, Have you seen this behavior with a debug build of Python? Under a debug build, you're more likely to get complaints about dodgy C code and the garbage collection will complain about refcount problems it can detect. Jeffrey, Any luck with you're core dump? Jeremy

Re: [Zope-dev] Core Dump (Zope 2.7, Python 2.3.3, FreeBSD 4.5)

2004-02-19 Thread Jeffrey P Shell
On Feb 19, 2004, at 1:09 PM, Jeremy Hylton wrote: Jeffrey, Any luck with your core dump? I recompiled Python 2.3 with a bigger stack size, and that seems to have worked. We had similar problems with Python 2.1.3 (it's a pretty infamous Python+FreeBSD problem, AFAICT), and I thought that it

RE: [Zope-dev] Core Dump (Zope 2.7, Python 2.3.3, FreeBSD 4.5)

2004-02-19 Thread Tim Peters
[Jeffrey P Shell] We had similar problems with Python 2.1.3 (it's a pretty infamous Python+FreeBSD problem, AFAICT), and I thought that it was patched in the Python core by now as I thought I heard something along those lines a while back, but I may have been hearing about the patch being

Re: [Zope-dev] Core Dump (Zope 2.7, Python 2.3.3, FreeBSD 4.5)

2004-02-18 Thread Jeremy Hylton
On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 11:45, Jeffrey P Shell wrote: What should I do next? Should I familiarize myself with gdb and inspect the core? What are some things I could look for if that's the next step? The code dump is an important clue, so it's definitely worth looking at. It's also pretty