[Python-Dev] New crash in test_embed on macOS 10.12 (original) (raw)

Raymond Hettinger raymond.hettinger at gmail.com
Fri Dec 15 15:14:54 EST 2017

On Dec 15, 2017, at 11:55 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

I haven’t bisected this yet, but with git head, built and tested on macOS 10.12.6 and Xcode 9.2, I’m seeing this crash in testembed: ====================================================================== FAIL: testbpo20891 (test.testembed.EmbeddingTests) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/barry/projects/python/cpython/Lib/test/testembed.py", line 207, in testbpo20891 out, err = self.runembeddedinterpreter("bpo20891") File "/Users/barry/projects/python/cpython/Lib/test/testembed.py", line 59, in runembeddedinterpreter (p.returncode, err)) AssertionError: -6 != 0 : bad returncode -6, stderr is 'Fatal Python error: PyEvalSaveThread: NULL tstate\n\nCurrent thread 0x00007fffcb58a3c0 (most recent call first):\n' Seems reproducible across different machines (all running 10.12.6 and Xcode 9.2), even after a make clean and configure. I don’t see the same failure on Debian, and I don’t see the crashes on the buildbots. Can anyone verify?

I saw this same test failure. After a "make distclean", it went away.

Raymond

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