[Python-Dev] Windows buildbots MSVC RTL popups

[Florent Xicluna]

With the help of bbreport, I collected these informations:
 - 3 tests are freezing randomly : test_bz2, test_codecs and test_tarfile
 - it happens on XP-4 and Windows7 builders (branches 2.7 and 3.1
only, trunk is not affected)
 - it seems to happen since revisions 84345 and 84346 which fixed issue # 1868

my .2 cents,

-- 
Florent Xicluna

2010/8/30 David Bolen <db3l.net at gmail.com>:
> Since the recent history of my two Windows buildbots has turned ugly,
> I figured I'd mention that they both (XP and Windows 7) have started
> generating quite a few GUI C++ RTL runtime pop-up assertions, which
> has been throwing a wrench into things until they get manually
> cleared.  I first noticed them Sunday night but they were probably
> there 24-48 hours at that point.  These are R6034 "An application has
> made an attempt to load the C runtime library incorrectly"
>
> I glanced through recent commits and I don't think I see anything
> obviously related but was wondering if anyone who might have been
> committing changes in the past few days might have an thought?  The
> source filename is truncated in the dialog (what genius at MS thought
> that would be the one field worth truncating?!) so I am not absolutely
> sure if they are limited to a specific branch or not.
>
> I've thrown on an autoit script to try to automatically acknowledge
> these dialogs so hopefully the affected test runs will just fail
> rather than timing out and blocking later runs.
>
> -- David