Frustrating segfaults with Shelf

[Emile van Sebille]

On 9/13/2010 10:05 AM Edward Grefenstette said...
> Dear Pythonistas,
>
> Below is a simple script that reads relations from a generator
> (they're just tuples of strings) and attempts to write them to a
> database. It's simple as hell,

Ecept of course that no one else can test it due to the dependencies.

> and if I simply ignore the database and
> have it print to stdout by replacing the line "depsDB[str(index)] =
> rels" with "print rels" it works just fine. However every time I try
> to run it just inexplicably segfaults. Help, anyone?

There are reported problems with the backend database in pre 2.3 python 
versions.  There are also known problems with shelves being accessed by 
differing versions.

So, I'd start by updating as needed, creating a new repository, then 
testing that.  Once it works, migrate the data over if needed.

If it doesn't work, it'll be tough to help out if narrowing things down 
to a specific reproducible test case is difficult.  Describe the 
debugging techniques you're trying with the results you're getting, and 
we can help contribute with other things to try.

HTH,

Emile