Re: Python segfault in while running vdsm unittests - first aid

----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nir Soffer" <nsoffer(a)redhat.com&gt; > To: "Francesco Romani" <fromani(a)redhat.com&gt; > Cc: "Eyal Edri" <eedri(a)redhat.com&gt;, "infra" <infra(a)ovirt.org&gt;, "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken(a)redhat.com&gt;, "Allon Mureinik" > <amureini(a)redhat.com&gt; > 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.