Oct. 19, 2001
10:08 p.m.
"CVR" == Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui@plaidworks.com> writes:
CVR> After 20 minutes or so, I finally tracked it down. Some other
CVR> site at apple had lodged a cookie in my browser. When Mailman
CVR> tried to read my cookies to validate my browser, it was
CVR> causing the admin CGI to core dump.Core dumped, right? Not caused a traceback?
Python's like any other interpreted or byte compiled language: in theory you should never be able to write pure Python code that can crash the interpreter. Such a situation is by definition a bug in the interpreter.
Are you running Python 1.5.2? I vaguely recall that it was possible to crash Python with some sequence of cookie data.
[quick google search...]
Here's an article in the middle of a thread about this on the Python mailing list. It contains a patch (which I can't vouch for).
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/1999-July/006953.html
Note the date. :)
Suggestions:
- upgrade Python to 2.1.1 and Mailman to 2.0.6.
- apply the patch suggested above and see if the crashes go away.
-Barry