[Python-Dev] bsddb: Test failures on windows (HELP!) (original) (raw)

Tres Seaver tseaver at palladion.com
Thu Jul 24 14:39:08 CEST 2008

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Mark Hammond wrote:

Trent, I was wondering if you could look at some test failures in MS Windows builds. I can't debug Windows issues myself :-(. This is a MS free environment... In these errors I see lots of bsdbd errors, many of the form: _| DBFileExistsError: (17, 'File exists -- fopfilesetup: Retry limit (100) exceeded')

Maybe this one is due to the fact that Windows, unlike POSIX, doesn't allow unlinking an open file?

Maybe an old test file isn't being nuked? Others of the form:

| self.assertTrue(time.time()<timeout) | AssertionError which also look more related to the test suite than to Windows.

Perhaps this is due to differing timer granularity on Windows?

There are also lots of errors due to the environment having a unicode object in it:

| test testsite failed -- Traceback (most recent call last): | ... | TypeError: environment can only contain strings | test testsubprocess failed -- errors occurred; run in verbose mode for details | [Possibly the same error as below?] | test testsys failed -- Traceback (most recent call last): | File "...\subprocess.py", line 817, in executechild | startupinfo) | TypeError: environment can only contain strings

That definitely shouldn't happen on Unix either.

Tres. - --

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