Re: Can we reproduce this?

Neal Norwitz <[email protected]> Mon, 6 Jan 2003 17:49:35 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.snake-farm.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 10:11:16AM -0800, Inyeol Lee wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 08:02:53PM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > > > > When I try 'make test' during building python2.3a1 with gcc2.95.3 in
> > > > > Solaris8, it stops at 'test_signal' - it stays there until the process
> > > > > is killed via kill -9.
> > > > 
> > > > This is a known problem, which occurs in the farm as well. We have as
> > > > yet no good leads.
> > > 
> > > I just ran test_socket a bunch of times on our sun without problems.
> > > I believe Martin von Loewis and Andrew Koenig also use a solaris box
> > > fairly regularly.  (Hopefully Martin is reading this list and can
> > > confirm.)
> > > 
> > > So the problem may be limited to the snake farm and a few other boxes.
> > 
> > Most likely it's dependent on a particular combination of software
> > versions.  It's worth trying to find out which versions the snake-farm
> > and inyeol's box have in common.
> 
> I built 2.3a1 with gcc 2.95 (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) and
> Solaris8 linker. I didn't use GNU binutil or glibc.
> 
> For comparison, I built another one with Solaris compiler (WorkShop
> Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0) instead of gcc, but the symptom is the
> same.

Inyeol:

Can you report the output of:

    showrev -p | cut -d' ' -f1-2 | egrep '(108528|108827)' | sort | uniq

You can post the information in the bug report here:

        http://python.org/sf/662787

Thanks,
Neal