[Python-Dev] segmentation fault in Python 2.5b3 (trunk:51066)

[Ralf Schmitt]

Hi all,

I've been trying to port our software to python 2.5.
unfortunately I'm getting constantly hit by segfaults.

I've boiled it down to the following code:

rs at schrotti:~/bug$ cat t.py
import array

class Indexer(object):
     maximumForwardSize = property(array.array.fromstring)
rs at schrotti:~/bug$ python t.py
Segmentation fault
rs at schrotti:~/bug$ python
Python 2.5b3 (trunk:51066, Aug  3 2006, 13:18:16)
[GCC 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>>
[18733 refs]
[7182 refs]
rs at schrotti:~/bug$ gdb python
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library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".

(gdb) r t.py
Starting program: /home/rs/exp/bin/python t.py
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1210304832 (LWP 21660)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1210304832 (LWP 21660)]
0x0811b68a in visit_decref (op=0xb7db21d8, data=0x0) at 
Modules/gcmodule.c:270
270		if (PyObject_IS_GC(op)) {
(gdb) bt
#0  0x0811b68a in visit_decref (op=0xb7db21d8, data=0x0) at 
Modules/gcmodule.c:270
#1  0x0814043d in property_traverse (self=0xb7d7b5b4, visit=0x811b654 
<visit_decref>, arg=0x0) at Objects/descrobject.c:1235
#2  0x0811b753 in subtract_refs (containers=0x8197d88) at 
Modules/gcmodule.c:295
#3  0x0811c453 in collect (generation=2) at Modules/gcmodule.c:790
#4  0x0811cf76 in PyGC_Collect () at Modules/gcmodule.c:1264
#5  0x0810d5da in Py_Finalize () at Python/pythonrun.c:377
#6  0x08057556 in Py_Main (argc=2, argv=0xbfb5a6f4) at Modules/main.c:516
#7  0x080565ba in main (argc=2, argv=0xbfb5a6f4) at ./Modules/python.c:23
(gdb)