Issue 5494: Failure in test_httpservers on Linux (original) (raw)

Hello developers,

While running 'make test' for Python 3.1a1 there was an error reported, obviously a permission problem, but when trying to run the reported server.py script in verbose mode it turned up an error in the regrtest.py script. Manually running the server.py script seems to go fine. See my installation notes below.

Commands were issued with and without sudo in a terminal under fully updated Kubuntu 8.10 and with no installation problems for Python 3.1a1.

Also I noticed Issue 4951 failure in test_httpserver under Windows, but with a different kind of error message.

Greetings, Ger

$ sudo make test Errors: 1 error reported; no idea what the script server.py is trying to access for which it says to have no rights.

This error was listed 3 times:

test_httpservers

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/home/ger/Systeembeheer/Python/Python_Packages/Python-3.1a1/Lib/http/server.py", line 1031, in run_cgi
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied

test test_httpservers failed -- errors occurred; run in verbose mode for details

See the readme file for the Python installation on how to run the script in verbose mode: General: $ ./python Lib/test/regrtest.py -v test_whatever So go to the folder Python-3.1a1/Lib/test/ Run testscript in verbose mode: $ sudo ./regrtest.py -v server.py

No idea if this regrtest.py script knows the path to server.py, otherwise add the correct path later in testing.

This shows a programming error in the regrtest.py script, so a run of server.py is not possible with this script: File "./regrtest.py", line 185 print(msg, file=sys.stderr) ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax

So let's run the server.py script directly to see if this script crashes or not.

When directly running the server.py script with and without sudo it runs with no errors, until broken off by Ctrl+C. The script seems to run or simulate a small webserver for tests.

Python-3.1a1/Lib/http$ sudo python3.1 server.py Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ... ^CTraceback (most recent call last): File "server.py", line 1101, in test(HandlerClass=BaseHTTPRequestHandler) File "server.py", line 1097, in test httpd.serve_forever() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.1/socketserver.py", line 224, in serve_forever r, w, e = select.select([self], [], [], poll_interval) KeyboardInterrupt

The SyntaxError show that you are running python version 2.x.

Run testscript in verbose mode: $ sudo ./regrtest.py -v server.py

Your sudo command is wrong: it should specify the path to the tested python executable, and not rely on the #! line in regrtest.py, which uses whatever python is installed on your machine.

Probably something like sudo ../../python regrtest.py -v server.py