[Python-Dev] bsddb: Test failures on windows (HELP!)

[Guido van Rossum]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Mark Hammond
<mhammond at skippinet.com.au> 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...
>
> 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.

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