Python segfault in while running vdsm unittests - first aid

[ybronhei]

On 06/09/2014 03:22 PM, Francesco Romani wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Nir Soffer" <nsoffer at redhat.com>
>> To: "Francesco Romani" <fromani at redhat.com>
>> Cc: "Eyal Edri" <eedri at redhat.com>, "infra" <infra at ovirt.org>, "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken at redhat.com>, "Allon Mureinik"
>> <amureini at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Monday, June 9, 2014 2:11:33 PM
>> Subject: Re: Python segfault in while running vdsm unittests - first aid
>>
> [...]
>>>> is there a bug open on nose, any newer version that has a fix for it?
>>>
>>> Here is the bug: https://github.com/nose-devs/nose/issues/817
>>>
>>> No further activitity (neither on the bug nor on the repo) since my report
>>
>> But I think this is a bug in python, either in the core or in the xml module
>> used by nose. nose probably only trigger the issue in the underlying
>> xml code written in c.
>
> I fully agree with you that the core issue is probably elsewhere, most likely where
> you are suggesting.
> Unfortunately I don't know yet where exactly, so as starting point I notified the nose devs.
>
> Also, I wasn't yet able to pinpoint the segfault.
> So far AFAIU looks like a memory corruption which later let the VM crash badly.
>
>
do you get the segfault that was introduced since the toolTests.py that 
way?? i don't get segfault on latest commit

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Yaniv Bronhaim.