[Python-Dev] test_posix, test_random failing

[M.-A. Lemburg]

My nightly cronjob has issued two warnings for the CVS checkout
at 02:00 CET today:

test test_posix failed -- Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/home/lemburg/projects/Python/Dev-Python/Lib/test/test_posix.py", line 39, in testNoArgFunctions
     posix_func()
OSError: [Errno 25] Inappropriate ioctl for device

The traceback is not very helpful I'm afraid and when I run the
test by hand I can't reproduce it.

test test_random failed -- Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/home/lemburg/projects/Python/Dev-Python/Lib/test/test_random.py", line 25, in test_autoseed
     self.assertNotEqual(state1, state2)
   File "/home/lemburg/projects/Python/Dev-Python/Lib/unittest.py", line 300, in failIfEqual
     raise self.failureException, \
AssertionError: (2, (1045703145, 318847470, 620640488, 320379787, -1732263717, -1278593374, ...

Again, I can't reproduce this one either.

Now, these failures may be due to some quirk in my machine or
hint to an intermittent problem with the above code.

Anybody else see these ?

-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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