[issue13027] python 2.6.6 interpreter core dumps on modules command from help prompt

[Balachandran Sivakumar]

New submission from Balachandran Sivakumar <benignbala at gmail.com>:

>From the python 2.6.6 interpreter on Debian Lenny(Debian 5.0), on invoking help(), and issuing the modules command, the interpreter seg faults, and dumps core. Also, it throws a few Deprecated warnings for modules like md5. The gdb backtrace on the core had 1 frame. attaching the bt in a separate file.


Core was generated by `python'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0  0xb5d72e47 in XQueryExtension () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
(gdb)

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components: Interpreter Core
files: python_bt.log
messages: 144408
nosy: Balachandran.Sivakumar
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: python 2.6.6 interpreter core dumps on modules command from help prompt
type: crash
versions: Python 2.6
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file23224/python_bt.log

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