[Python-Dev] Sleepycat Berkeley DB on OSX

[Guido van Rossum]

When running test_bsddb3 on Mac OSX, using BSDDB 4.0.14, I get
tracebacks like these:

Exception in thread writer 0:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/guido/python/src/Lib/threading.py", line 416, in __bootstrap
    self.run()
  File "/Users/guido/python/src/Lib/threading.py", line 404, in run
    apply(self.__target, self.__args, self.__kwargs)
  File "/Users/guido/python/src/Lib/bsddb/test/test_thread.py", line 115, in writerThread
    dbutils.DeadlockWrap(d.put, key, self.makeData(key), max_retries=12)
  File "/Users/guido/python/src/Lib/bsddb/dbutils.py", line 61, in DeadlockWrap
    except _db.DBLockDeadlockError:
NameError: global name '_db' is not defined

and these:

Exception in thread reader 8:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/guido/python/src/Lib/threading.py", line 416, in __bootstrap
    self.run()
  File "/Users/guido/python/src/Lib/threading.py", line 404, in run
    apply(self.__target, self.__args, self.__kwargs)
  File "/Users/guido/python/src/Lib/bsddb/test/test_thread.py", line 140, in readerThread
    c = d.cursor()
DBNoMemoryError: (12, 'Cannot allocate memory -- Lock table is out of available locks')

Any clues???

I don't get these on Linux, although there I get a failure too:

test test_bsddb3 failed -- errors occurred; run in verbose mode for details

Frankly, verbose mode waas too verbose to bother. :-(

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)