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I can reproduce the crash in very unusual setup:
1. OpenPegasus (http://www.openpegasus.org/), for this bug we may consider it just a network daemon, listening on TCP port. When a request comes, it is eventually processed by a provider (= something like plugin).
2. cmpi-bindings ([1], [2]), which allows to write these plugins in Python
+ some other python modules, but IMHO not relevant (e.g. pywbem [3])
1: https://github.com/kkaempf/cmpi-bindings
2: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/pywbem/index.php?title=Provider_Home
3: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/pywbem/index.php?title=Main_Page
Now, if the Pegasus daemon gets a request, it calls cmpi-bindings, which creates embedded Python [4], loads the python "plugin", and processes the request. If the "plugin" is idle for 15 minutes, it is unloaded by Pegasus (= the embedded Python is destroyed). So far everything works like charm. But, when new request arrives *after* the unload, Pegaasus calls cmpi-bindings again, which tries to create the embedded Python for second time and here I get the crash.
[4]: python initialization/shutdown: https://github.com/kkaempf/cmpi-bindings/blob/master/src/target_python.c, TargetInitialize() and TargetCleanup(), some marcos are generated by swig from https://github.com/kkaempf/cmpi-bindings/blob/master/swig/cmpi.i
I haven't been able to reproduce the crash with simpler setup (and I have tried, believe me). It is also possible that the Python initialization/shutdown in cmpi-bindings is wrong, but I am not able to find any bug here.