Python segfault in while running vdsm unittests - first aid

[Nir Soffer]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Francesco Romani" <fromani at redhat.com>
> To: "Eyal Edri" <eedri at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Nir Soffer" <nsoffer 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 3:03:13 PM
> Subject: Re: Python segfault in while running vdsm unittests - first aid
> 
> ----- Original Message ---
> > From: "Eyal Edri" <eedri at redhat.com>
> > To: "Nir Soffer" <nsoffer at redhat.com>
> > Cc: "infra" <infra at ovirt.org>, "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken at redhat.com>,
> > "Francesco Romani" <fromani at redhat.com>, "Allon
> > Mureinik" <amureini at redhat.com>
> > Sent: Monday, June 9, 2014 1:54:24 PM
> > Subject: Re: Python segfault in while running vdsm unittests - first aid
> > 
> > > I can confirm what Francesco found - the failure is easily reproduced
> > > (100%)
> > > when running make check with the NOSE_WITH_XUNIT=1, and when using latest
> > > nose version from git.
> > > 
> > > This issue make the failing CI job not only useless, but harmful, wasting
> > > everyone time.
> > > 
> > > I suggest to remove the NOSE_WITH_XNUNIT flag until nose is fixed.
> > > 
> > 
> > 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.