[Python-Dev] OpenBSD anyone? (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Dec 22 14:59:43 EST 2003

It doesn't get as far as the banner:

Script started on Mon Dec 22 14:42:19 2003 hydra /home/kbk/proj/sandbox/pythonclean$ gdb ./python GNU gdb 4.16.1 Copyright 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-openbsd3.3"... (gdb) run Starting program: /home/kbk/proj/sandbox/pythonclean/./python Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x401900a0 in strchr () (gdb) quit The program is running. Quit anyway (and kill it)? (y or n) y hydra /home/kbk/proj/sandbox/pythonclean$ Script done on Mon Dec 22 14:42:38 2003 Investigating.

That suggests it's still in Py_Initialize(). What does the gdb command 'bt' say???

I'd also try another experiment: instead of "run" try "run -S". This passes the -S option to Python when it is started, so that it doesn't try to load site.py (which executes rather a lot of Python code). I'd be interested in seeing how much you can do interactively in that case, of if it still crashes in Py_Initialize().

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

More information about the Python-Dev mailing list