[Python-Dev] Whole bunch of test failures on OSX

Mon Apr 3 02:57:50 CEST 2006

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> I'm not sure this is going to be all that helpful. If there's more I can do
> to help track down these problems, let me know.

Sure: you can do _everything_ to track them down ;-)
> Last night I ran
>> make test EXTRATESTOPTS='-R :: -uall -r'
>> on my Mac laptop after a fresh svn up. I wasn't ready for how long that
> would run!

I never tried it (specifically the '-R ::' bit), but I see what you
mean. Note that we have an OSX buildbot slave that passes all the
trunk tests. Can you say whether
 make test EXTRATESTOPTS='-uall -r'
(without '-R ::') also fails on your box? The point is to separate
what's unique to your Mac box from what's unique to '-R ::'.
> ..
> And though it didn't list test_bsddb3 as a failure, it got a bunch of
> DBLockDeadlockError exceptions.

That one's almost a FAQ here -- all platforms see those from time to
time, and have for years (especially when the box is heavily loaded).
> ...
> For test_decimal it printed:
>> test test_decimal failed -- errors occurred; run in verbose mode for details
>> but when I ran test_decimal manually it ran fine.

Did your manual run also include '-R ::'? When I run test_decimal in
isolation on my Windows box with that option, it also fails here, on
its second run:
C:\Code\python\PCbuild>python_d -E -tt ../lib/test/regrtest.py -uall
-R:: test_decimal
test_decimal
beginning 9 repetitions
123456789
test test_decimal failed -- errors occurred; run in verbose mode for details
1 test failed:
 test_decimal
[29478 refs]
> Same thing for test_warnings:
>> test test_warnings failed -- errors occurred in test.test_warnings.TestModule
>> When I ran it manually it passed.

With or without -R::? This one also fails for me in isolation with
'-R ::', and also on its second run:
C:\Code\python\PCbuild>python_d -E -tt ../lib/test/regrtest.py -uall
-R:: test_warnings
test_warnings
beginning 9 repetitions
123456789
test test_warnings failed -- errors occurred in test.test_warnings.TestModule
1 test failed:
 test_warnings
[15467 refs]
Does anyone else routinely use -R? If anyone does, do all the tests
pass for them?