[Python-checkins] buildbot warnings in hppa Ubuntu dapper trunk

[Tim Peters]

[buildbot at python.org]
>> The Buildbot has detected a new failure of hppa Ubuntu dapper trunk.
>> Full details are available at:
>>
> http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all/hppa%2520Ubuntu%2520dapper%2520trunk/builds/603
>>
>> Buildbot URL: http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all/
>>
>> Build Reason:
>> Build Source Stamp: [branch trunk] HEAD
>> Blamelist: brett.cannon
>>
>> Build Had Warnings: warnings test

[brett.cannon, trying to weasle out ;-)]
> OK, I have no clue how my change could trigger this failure.  Anyone have a
> clue?

Note something from that log:  test_optparse originally failed in
test_filetype_noexist:

test test_optparse failed -- Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/pybot/buildarea/trunk.klose-ubuntu-hppa/build/Lib/test/test_optparse.py",
line 1042, in test_filetype_noexist
    test_support.TESTFN)
  File "/home/pybot/buildarea/trunk.klose-ubuntu-hppa/build/Lib/test/test_optparse.py",
line 158, in assertParseFail
    self.assertFalse("expected parse failure")
AssertionError

But when test_optparse was re-run with -v, type_noexist passed, and
test_optparse failed in test_version instead.

OTOH, test_optparse's test_filetype_noexist _also_ failed on the "x86
W2k trunk" buildbot, build 992, with your rev 46757 alone in the
blamelist, and that makes it harder to swallow that the HPPA buildbot
is just flaky here.  On the W2k run, test_optparse also passed (all of
it) when it got rerun with -v.

If there's "a real reason" for this, it may well require running some
subset of tests in a specific order.  Alas, since your patch changed C
code, it's potentially to blame for any kind of failure whatsoever.

I forced another test run on the HPPA box just to see what happens.

I'm also running the tests on my box in exactly the same order the W2k
box ran them during its test_optparse failure.   Oops!  That finished
already, and test_optparse _did_ fail here.  I'll attach the list of
tests it ran.  You use this by passing it to regrtest.py's "-f"
argument.  Next step is binary-search'ish to get a minimal set of
failing tests.

Happily, I forgot to use -uall, so the 4 skipped tests here can be
removed at once:

$ python_d  -E -tt ../lib/test/regrtest.py -f f.txt
test_distutils
...
test_optparse
test test_optparse failed -- Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Code\python\lib\test\test_optparse.py", line 1042, in
test_filetype_noexist
    test_support.TESTFN)
  File "C:\Code\python\lib\test\test_optparse.py", line 158, in assertParseFail
    self.assertFalse("expected parse failure")
AssertionError

135 tests OK.
1 test failed:
    test_optparse
4 tests skipped:
    test_largefile test_socket_ssl test_timeout test_urllibnet
Those skips are all expected on win32.
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