[XML-SIG] xmlrpclib.py exception while trying to raise exception

[ssteinerX@gmail.com]

On Jan 17, 2010, at 2:21 AM, Dieter Maurer wrote:

> ssteinerX at gmail.com wrote at 2010-1-15 21:47 -0500:
>> This just popped up in a program that has successfully (in this run) made thousands of multicall()s.
>> ...
>> Anyone have any clues about why the exception itself wouldn't be defined or should I just file a bug?
>> ...
>> File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1042,                   
>> in __call__                                                                                                         
>>   return MultiCallIterator(self.__server.system.multicall(marshalled_list))                                       
>> File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1199, in __call__                                                                                                         
>>   return self.__send(self.__name, args)                                                                           
>> File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1489, in __request                                                                                                       
>>   verbose=self.__verbose                                                                                          
>> File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1253, in request                                                                                                         
>>   return self._parse_response(h.getfile(), sock)                                                                  
>> File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1392, in _parse_response                                                                                                  
>>   return u.close()                                                                                                
>> File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 838, in close                                                                                                              
>>   raise Fault(**self._stack[0])                                                                                   
>> Fault: <Fault 1: "<type 'exceptions.NameError'>:global name 'Fault' is not defined">
> 
> Almost surely, the "NameError" comes from your XMLRPC server, not
> the XMLRPC client.
> 
> If you are lucky, your server logs sufficient information for exceptions
> (e.g. the traceback) to allow you to find out where the exception
> occurred.

Thanks.  Unfortunately I don't have access to the remote -- it's a service run by another company.

This seems to have occurred during shutdown when the connection was trying to close itself but the Fault object had already been removed.

Thanks,

S