[New-bugs-announce] [issue7384] test_curses crash on FreeBSD buildbots

[Mark Dickinson]

New submission from Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com>:

test_curses is currently causing the test runs to abort on the FreeBSD 6.4 
and 7.2 buildbots.

I can reproduce this on a FreeBSD 7.2 /amd64 machine by doing

./python Lib/test/regrtest.py -uall test___all__ test_curses

This dumps core, and the traceback points at the call to delwin() in 
PyCursesWindow_Dealloc, but it's far from obvious (to me) what's going 
wrong.  wo->win is not NULL here, and appears to point to a valid WINDOW.  
However, stdscr is NULL!  As far as I can tell, this shouldn't happen.

test_curses by itself doesn't crash, unless I add an 'import readline' or 
'import rlcompleter' to the top of test_curses.py.

I expect to have access to the FreeBSD machine for a few more days.  Any 
hints about what to try next would be appreciated.

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components: Extension Modules
keywords: buildbot
messages: 95652
nosy: mark.dickinson
severity: normal
status: open
title: test_curses crash on FreeBSD buildbots
versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2

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