Fatal Python error: deallocating None

Delaney, Timothy (Tim) tdelaney at avaya.com
Wed Oct 25 20:40:46 EDT 2006


George Sakkis wrote:

> What makes the problem worse is that it's not deterministic; I can
> restart it from (a little before) the point of crash and it doesn't
> happen again at the same point, but it might happen further down. Now,
> I wouldn't mind restarting it manually every time since the crashes
> are not all that frequent; problem is, it's supposed to be a
> long-running process that will probably take days to finish normally,
> so I want it to run overnight too. Any hints ?

None should *never* be deallocated, so it sounds like it's not being
INCREFed correctly somewhere. Extension module, etc ...

Tim Delaney



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