[Python-Dev] 3.2b2 fails test suite on (my) Windows XP

Thu Jan 6 00:58:17 CET 2011

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 17:56, Brian Curtin <brian.curtin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 17:47, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>
>> To test Brett's test running instruction, I ran
>> python -m test # not ./Python!
>> in a Command Prompt window
>> ---
>> Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
>>
>> == CPython 3.2b2 (r32b2:87398, Dec 19 2010, 22:51:00)
>>   [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]
>> ==   Windows-XP-5.1.2600-SP3 little-endian
>> ==   c:\docume~1\terry\locals~1\temp\test_python_3528
>> [  1/351] test_grammar
>> ...
>> [ 10/351] test___all__
>> Warning -- os.environ was modified by test___all__
>> [ 11/351] test___future__
>> ...
>> [ 37/351] test_capi
>>
>> Window hangs, can only close.
>> Error popup says "python.exe has encountered a problem..."
>> at 000a03f7 in python32.dll
>>
>> RUN 2, same command, I get
>> [ 37/351] test_capi
>> test test_capi failed -- Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "C:\Programs\Python32\lib\test\test_capi.py", line 50, in
>> test_no_FatalEr
>> ror_infinite_loop
>>    b'Fatal Python error:'
>> AssertionError: b"Fatal Python error: PyThreadState_Get: no current
>> thread\r\n\r
>> \nThis application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual
>> way.\
>> nPlease contact the application's support team for more information." !=
>> b'Fatal
>>  Python error: PyThreadState_Get: no current thread'
>>
>> and it continued on with test_cfgparser, etc, so crashing rather than mere
>> failure is intermitant.
>>
>> BUT process then stopped (hung, no error popup) at
>> [ 67/351] test_concurrent_futures
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>>  File "C:\Programs\Python32\lib\multiprocessing\forking.py", line 369, in
>> main
>>    prepare(preparation_data)
>>  File "C:\Programs\Python32\lib\multiprocessing\forking.py", line 477, in
>> prepa
>> re
>>    assert main_name not in sys.modules, main_name
>> AssertionError: __main__
>>
>> RUN 3
>>  python -m test -x test_capi test_concurrent_futures
>>
>> went further, more failed tests, then process started repeatedly (hundred
>> of times) outputting
>>
>>    assert main_name not in sys.modules, main_name
>> AssertionError: __main__
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>>  File "C:\Programs\Python32\lib\multiprocessing\forking.py", line 369, in
>> main
>>    prepare(preparation_data)
>>  File "C:\Programs\Python32\lib\multiprocessing\forking.py", line 477,
>>
>> Occasionally a new test would start in between this stuff. It ended with
>> test_sax. I cannot say when it began because the volume overfilled the
>> output buffer.
>>
>> [306/349] test_ttk_guionly # and test_tk
>> test_ttk_guionly skipped -- ttk not available: Can't find a usable
>> init.tcl in t
>> he following directories:
>>    C:/Programs/Python32/lib/tcl8.5 C:/Programs/lib/tcl8.5 C:/lib/tcl8.5
>> C:/Prog
>> rams/library C:/library C:/tcl8.5.9/library C:/tcl8.5.9/library
>> This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.
>>
>> Funny, IDLE works fine. In any case, I did a standard install from the
>> distributed installer.
>>
>> Something is definitely not ready for final release. The final mishmash:
>>
>> [349/349] test_zlib
>> 295 tests OK.
>> 11 tests failed:
>>    test_datetime test_difflib.bak test_ftplib test_lib2to3
>>    test_multiprocessing test_os.bak test_pep277 test_pkgutil
>>    test_posixpath test_runpy test_tcl
>> 2 tests altered the execution environment:
>>    test___all__ test_site
>> 41 tests skipped:
>>    test_codecmaps_cn test_codecmaps_hk test_codecmaps_jp
>>    test_codecmaps_kr test_codecmaps_tw test_crypt test_curses
>>    test_dbm_gnu test_dbm_ndbm test_epoll test_fcntl test_fork1
>>    test_gdb test_grp test_ioctl test_kqueue test_largefile test_nis
>>    test_openpty test_ossaudiodev test_pipes test_poll test_posix
>>    test_pty test_pwd test_readline test_resource test_smtpnet
>>    test_socketserver test_syslog test_threadsignals test_timeout
>>    test_tk test_ttk_guionly test_urllib2net test_urllibnet test_wait3
>>    test_wait4 test_winsound test_xmlrpc_net test_zipfile64
>> 4 skips unexpected on win32:
>>    test_gdb test_readline test_tk test_ttk_guionly
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "C:\Programs\Python32\lib\test\support.py", line 468, in temp_cwd
>>    yield os.getcwd()
>>  File "C:\Programs\Python32\lib\test\__main__.py", line 13, in <module>
>>    regrtest.main()
>>  File "C:\Programs\Python32\lib\test\regrtest.py", line 704, in main
>>    sys.exit(len(bad) > 0 or interrupted)
>> SystemExit: True
>>
>> During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "C:\Programs\Python32\lib\runpy.py", line 160, in
>> _run_module_as_main
>>    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
>>  File "C:\Programs\Python32\lib\runpy.py", line 73, in _run_code
>>    exec(code, run_globals)
>>  File "C:\Programs\Python32\lib\test\__main__.py", line 13, in <module>
>>    regrtest.main()
>>  File "C:\Programs\Python32\lib\contextlib.py", line 46, in __exit__
>>    self.gen.throw(type, value, traceback)
>>  File "C:\Programs\Python32\lib\test\support.py", line 472, in temp_cwd
>>    rmtree(name)
>>  File "C:\Programs\Python32\lib\test\support.py", line 198, in rmtree
>>    shutil.rmtree(path)
>>  File "C:\Programs\Python32\lib\shutil.py", line 287, in rmtree
>>    onerror(os.rmdir, path, sys.exc_info())
>>  File "C:\Programs\Python32\lib\shutil.py", line 285, in rmtree
>>    os.rmdir(path)
>> WindowsError: [Error 32] The process cannot access the file because it is
>> being
>> used by another process:
>> 'c:\\docume~1\\terry\\locals~1\\temp\\test_python_2372'
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "C:\Programs\Python32\lib\multiprocessing\util.py", line 261, in
>> _run_fin
>> alizers
>>    finalizer()
>>  File "C:\Programs\Python32\lib\multiprocessing\util.py", line 200, in
>> __call__
>>
>>    res = self._callback(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
>>  File "C:\Programs\Python32\lib\multiprocessing\pool.py", line 492, in
>> _termina
>> te_pool
>>    p.terminate()
>>  File "C:\Programs\Python32\lib\multiprocessing\process.py", line 137, in
>> termi
>> nate
>>    self._popen.terminate()
>> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'terminate'
>>
>> C:\Programs\Python32>Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>>  File "C:\Programs\Python32\lib\multiprocessing\forking.py", line 368, in
>> main
>>    preparation_data = load(from_parent)
>> EOFError
>>
>> --
>> Terry Jan Reedy
>
>
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9116 covers this issue.
>
> The reason it doesn't fail on any of the build slaves is because they
> modify a registry value for Windows Error Reporting to not display the
> pop-up window, or at least mine does. I think I got the idea from one of the
> other Windows build slave maintainers.
>

Sorry, should have specified -- that issue only covers the test_capi
failure.
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