Python segfault in while running vdsm unittests - first aid

[Nir Soffer]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "ybronhei" <ybronhei at redhat.com>
> To: "Francesco Romani" <fromani at redhat.com>, "Nir Soffer" <nsoffer at redhat.com>
> Cc: "infra" <infra at 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 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

You don't get the segfault because I disabled the xunit nose plugin.

See the first message in this thread.

Nir