[Python-Dev] Python Test suite hangining

[Christian Heimes]

On 2018-03-05 13:13, Brett Cannon wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, 4 Mar 2018 at 11:38 TonyFlury via Python-Dev
> <python-dev at python.org <mailto:python-dev at python.org>> wrote:
> 
>     All,
>     Sorry to trouble you all  - but I am trying to get the Python 3.8
>     test suite running on Ubuntu 16.0.4.
> 
>     As per the dev guide - having cloned the repo and run the build I am
>     running the test suite by : ./python -m test -j1
> 
>     This runs through to test 414/415 - and then start getting this message
> 
>         running: test_poplib (nnn sec)
> 
>         every 30 seconds - nnn got to 1077 secs before I decided to stop it.
> 
> 
>     When I ran test_poplib on it's own - I got this Traceback  :
> 
>         Traceback (most recent call last):
>             .......
>             .......
>           File "/home/tony/Development/python/cpython/Lib/ssl.py", line
>     1108, in do_handshake
>             self._sslobj.do_handshake()
>         ssl.SSLError: [SSL: SSLV3_ALERT_CERTIFICATE_UNKNOWN] sslv3 alert
>     certificate unknown (_ssl.c:1038)
> 
>     And then lots of reports of unexpected EOFs.
> 
>     I have the latest CA-certificates installed
> 
>     Any advice - I couldn't find anything on google.
> 
> 
> CI is testing, so this isn't a universal issue:
> https://travis-ci.org/python/cpython/jobs/349398791 . So I would see if
> you could diagnose whether your latest certs are so new compared to what
> others who run the test suite are using that that's what is causing your
> failure compared to others.

Python's test suite should depend on public CAs. The issue in poplib is
related to https://bugs.python.org/issue32706 . I'll address the problem
when I'm back home in Germany next week.

Christian