[New-bugs-announce] [issue15748] Various symlink test failures in test_shutil on FreeBSD

[Trent Nelson]

New submission from Trent Nelson:

FreeBSD slaves are running into this:


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ERROR: test_copy2_symlinks (test.test_shutil.TestShutil)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/buildslave/cpython/3.x.snakebite-freebsd91-amd64/build/Lib/test/test_shutil.py", line 490, in test_copy2_symlinks
    shutil.copy2(src_link, dst, follow_symlinks=False)
  File "/home/buildslave/cpython/3.x.snakebite-freebsd91-amd64/build/Lib/shutil.py", line 237, in copy2
    copyfile(src, dst, follow_symlinks=follow_symlinks)
  File "/home/buildslave/cpython/3.x.snakebite-freebsd91-amd64/build/Lib/shutil.py", line 107, in copyfile
    os.symlink(os.readlink(src), dst)
TypeError: embedded NUL character

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ERROR: test_copy_symlinks (test.test_shutil.TestShutil)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/buildslave/cpython/3.x.snakebite-freebsd91-amd64/build/Lib/test/test_shutil.py", line 463, in test_copy_symlinks
    shutil.copy(src_link, dst, follow_symlinks=False)
  File "/home/buildslave/cpython/3.x.snakebite-freebsd91-amd64/build/Lib/shutil.py", line 221, in copy
    copyfile(src, dst, follow_symlinks=follow_symlinks)
  File "/home/buildslave/cpython/3.x.snakebite-freebsd91-amd64/build/Lib/shutil.py", line 107, in copyfile
    os.symlink(os.readlink(src), dst)
TypeError: embedded NUL character

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FAIL: test_copytree_symlinks (test.test_shutil.TestShutil)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/buildslave/cpython/3.x.snakebite-freebsd91-amd64/build/Lib/test/test_shutil.py", line 606, in test_copytree_symlinks
    os.path.join(src_dir, 'file.txt'))
AssertionError: '/tmp/tmpqlihz5/src/file.' != '/tmp/tmpqlihz5/src/file.txt'
- /tmp/tmpqlihz5/src/file.
+ /tmp/tmpqlihz5/src/file.txt
?                         +++


Haven't had time to debug it any further yet.  Have no clue what's going on either just from a cursory look at the error messages.  Not sure if it's ZFS related like the other FreeBSD issues.

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assignee: trent
components: Tests
messages: 168731
nosy: trent
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Various symlink test failures in test_shutil on FreeBSD
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4

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