[Python-Dev] Buildbot failures

[A.M. Kuchling]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 08:34:21PM -0500, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> Also, test_docxmlrpc hasn't been happy. One of the tests isn't
> getting the exact response string it expected.  Any ideas what is
> causing this?

My fault; it should be fixed now.

> There is also a recurring failure in SocketServer.py returning
> "ValueError: list.remove(x): x not in list" during attempts to
> remove a PID from the list of active_children.  Any ideas about what
> is causing this?

I couldn't find a current build that was showing this error, but
searching python.org turned up one that had been indexed:

http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/trunk/ppc%20Debian%20unstable%20trunk/builds/726/step-test/0

I don't see what could be causing this failure, though; the test isn't
starting any subprocesses outside of what the ForkingServer class
does.  I don't see how this could be an artifact of the buildbot
environment, either.

It would be easy to add an 'if pid in self.active_children' to the
code, but I don't want to do that without understanding the problem.

--amk