Guido> I think I've seen this too when running the bsddb3 unittest. I Guido> think it's caused by a previous test ending badly and leaving Guido> junk behind that the test suite doesn't properly remove before Guido> starting. But I don't recall the details. skip> Thanks, that at least gives me some hope that I can try to narrow skip> down the problem with a little binary searching. The binary search wasn't very difficult. Ran regrtest with the -v and -f flags. test_anydbm was the only test. Here's the output: % ./python.exe -E -tt ../Lib/test/regrtest.py -f tests -v -uall test_anydbm test_anydbm_creation (test.test_anydbm.AnyDBMTestCase) ... ERROR test_anydbm_keys (test.test_anydbm.AnyDBMTestCase) ... ERROR test_anydbm_modification (test.test_anydbm.AnyDBMTestCase) ... ERROR test_anydbm_read (test.test_anydbm.AnyDBMTestCase) ... ERROR ====================================================================== ERROR: test_anydbm_creation (test.test_anydbm.AnyDBMTestCase) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/skip/src/python/trunk/Lib/test/test_anydbm.py", line 37, in test_anydbm_creation f = anydbm.open(_fname, 'c') File "/Users/skip/src/python/trunk/Lib/anydbm.py", line 83, in open return mod.open(file, flag, mode) File "/Users/skip/src/python/trunk/Lib/dbhash.py", line 16, in open return bsddb.hashopen(file, flag, mode) File "/Users/skip/src/python/trunk/Lib/bsddb/__init__.py", line 310, in hashopen d.open(file, db.DB_HASH, flags, mode) DBFileExistsError: (17, 'File exists -- __fop_file_setup: Retry limit (100) exceeded') ====================================================================== ERROR: test_anydbm_keys (test.test_anydbm.AnyDBMTestCase) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/skip/src/python/trunk/Lib/test/test_anydbm.py", line 58, in test_anydbm_keys self.init_db() File "/Users/skip/src/python/trunk/Lib/test/test_anydbm.py", line 69, in init_db f = anydbm.open(_fname, 'n') File "/Users/skip/src/python/trunk/Lib/anydbm.py", line 83, in open return mod.open(file, flag, mode) File "/Users/skip/src/python/trunk/Lib/dbhash.py", line 16, in open return bsddb.hashopen(file, flag, mode) File "/Users/skip/src/python/trunk/Lib/bsddb/__init__.py", line 310, in hashopen d.open(file, db.DB_HASH, flags, mode) DBFileExistsError: (17, 'File exists -- __fop_file_setup: Retry limit (100) exceeded') ====================================================================== ERROR: test_anydbm_modification (test.test_anydbm.AnyDBMTestCase) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/skip/src/python/trunk/Lib/test/test_anydbm.py", line 45, in test_anydbm_modification self.init_db() File "/Users/skip/src/python/trunk/Lib/test/test_anydbm.py", line 69, in init_db f = anydbm.open(_fname, 'n') File "/Users/skip/src/python/trunk/Lib/anydbm.py", line 83, in open return mod.open(file, flag, mode) File "/Users/skip/src/python/trunk/Lib/dbhash.py", line 16, in open return bsddb.hashopen(file, flag, mode) File "/Users/skip/src/python/trunk/Lib/bsddb/__init__.py", line 310, in hashopen d.open(file, db.DB_HASH, flags, mode) DBFileExistsError: (17, 'File exists -- __fop_file_setup: Retry limit (100) exceeded') ====================================================================== ERROR: test_anydbm_read (test.test_anydbm.AnyDBMTestCase) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/skip/src/python/trunk/Lib/test/test_anydbm.py", line 52, in test_anydbm_read self.init_db() File "/Users/skip/src/python/trunk/Lib/test/test_anydbm.py", line 69, in init_db f = anydbm.open(_fname, 'n') File "/Users/skip/src/python/trunk/Lib/anydbm.py", line 83, in open return mod.open(file, flag, mode) File "/Users/skip/src/python/trunk/Lib/dbhash.py", line 16, in open return bsddb.hashopen(file, flag, mode) File "/Users/skip/src/python/trunk/Lib/bsddb/__init__.py", line 310, in hashopen d.open(file, db.DB_HASH, flags, mode) DBFileExistsError: (17, 'File exists -- __fop_file_setup: Retry limit (100) exceeded') ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ran 4 tests in 404.353s FAILED (errors=4) test test_anydbm failed -- errors occurred; run in verbose mode for details 1 test failed: test_anydbm Skip