-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mark Hammond wrote:

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Trent, I was wondering if you could look at some test failures in MS Windows builds. I can't debug Windows issues myself :-(. This is a MS free environment...

In these errors I see lots of bsdbd errors, many of the form:

| DBFileExistsError: (17, 'File exists -- __fop_file_setup: Retry limit (100) exceeded')

Maybe this one is due to the fact that Windows, unlike POSIX, doesn't allow unlinking an open file?

Maybe an old test file isn't being nuked? Others of the form:

| self.assertTrue(time.time()

which also look more related to the test suite than to Windows.

Perhaps this is due to differing timer granularity on Windows?

There are also lots of errors due to the environment having a unicode object in it:

| test test_site failed -- Traceback (most recent call last): | ... | TypeError: environment can only contain strings

| test test_subprocess failed -- errors occurred; run in verbose mode for details | [Possibly the same error as below?]

| test test_sys failed -- Traceback (most recent call last): | File "...\subprocess.py", line 817, in _execute_child | startupinfo) | TypeError: environment can only contain strings

That definitely shouldn't happen on Unix either. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tseaver@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIiHfr+gerLs4ltQ4RAk5KAJ9It0Am1VfFNQNaE+wA8uWkkTZ6wQCgtwlx o16eVKpEXTHED4X1/Vi0Nk0= =zzKd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jesus Cea wrote: | Trent, I was wondering if you could look at some test failures in MS | Windows builds. I can't debug Windows issues myself :-(. This is a MS | free environment... I will be out of the city, 100% offline, until monday/tuesday. I will read your suggestions and do some tests as soon as possible. Please, keep the brainstorming going :) Feel free to (minimally };-)) touch the testcases trying to improve the situation. If that does the trick, please let me know to integrate the changes in my code. Remember this code must work in python 2.[3-6] (reason, for example, because I have my own "test_support" code, in pybsddb). Thanks a lot for your invaluable suggestions. - -- Jesus Cea Avion _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ jcea@jcea.es - http://www.jcea.es/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ jabber / xmpp:jcea@jabber.org _/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ . _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "Things are not so easy" _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "My name is Dump, Core Dump" _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "El amor es poner tu felicidad en la felicidad de otro" - Leibniz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQCVAwUBSIinuplgi5GaxT1NAQK6qQP+LOv1lU6G6+GaSrxUqrnFM62bTcmXCMay S0ic3rWYUL4YTvWT/Ips/qBgYvRCPl3uHnmIDia9UAOnYh3EYjkFN+/4GDofGwM+ 1UBRu86C7LsYdJl2VlHJyHGWmz6tgbbtAue306CNX01yD+pwYsCUqMSTuzjiiNCx /q1DHdJv8Qo= =OpNx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Mark Hammond wrote:

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Trent, I was wondering if you could look at some test failures in MS Windows builds. I can't debug Windows issues myself :-(. This is a MS free environment...

In these errors I see lots of bsdbd errors, many of the form:

| DBFileExistsError: (17, 'File exists -- __fop_file_setup: Retry limit (100) exceeded')

I've had this a few times in the past (Retry limit (100) exceeded)and it has always been caused by cruft left behind by a previous run of the test that didn't end well. Somehow these tests do not do a good job of cleaning up old cruft before they run. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)