From: "ybronhei" <ybronhei(a)redhat.com>
To: "Francesco Romani" <fromani(a)redhat.com>, "Nir Soffer"
<nsoffer(a)redhat.com>
Cc: "infra" <infra(a)ovirt.org>
Sent: Monday, June 9, 2014 10:51:56 PM
Subject: Re: Python segfault in while running vdsm unittests - first aid
On 06/09/2014 03:22 PM, Francesco Romani wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Nir Soffer" <nsoffer(a)redhat.com>
>> To: "Francesco Romani" <fromani(a)redhat.com>
>> Cc: "Eyal Edri" <eedri(a)redhat.com>, "infra"
<infra(a)ovirt.org>, "Dan
>> Kenigsberg" <danken(a)redhat.com>, "Allon Mureinik"
>> <amureini(a)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
You don't get the segfault because I disabled the xunit nose plugin.
See the first message in this thread.
Nir