[Zope-dev] What does error code 136 mean?
Casey Duncan
casey@zope.com
Thu, 12 Sep 2002 09:37:25 -0400
Thanks for the detective work. Please file a bug report in the collector=20
(http://collector.zope.org/Zope) and I will look into it.
-Casey
On Thursday 12 September 2002 04:48 am, Peter Keller wrote:
> Hi,
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> I have tried Leonardo's very helpful suggestion to get a Python traceba=
ck:
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> > Try to run zope under a debugger. Follow instructions here:
> > http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/debugspinningzope
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> > but type "continue" (w/out quotes) as soon as you get the gdb prompt =
to
> > get zope to run normally.
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> This, combined with some debugging of the corefile at the C level (whic=
h I
> know a lot more about than anything to do with Python) has helped me
> figure out what the problem is.
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> The DTML that was cauisng the crash was:
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> <dtml-in Catalog sort=3DlastEditTime reverse>
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> but some items in Catalog did not have a property lastEditTime. In my
> particular circumstances I can exclude these objects from the ZCatalog,
> but surely there ought to be a cleaner way of handling this - either
> putting objects with missing properties at the end of the list, or not
> having them feature in the list at all? Perhaps some way of controlling
> this (or at least raising a more meaningful error) might be considered =
in
> a future release of Zope?
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> The gory details.... I've appended the Python traceback. You can see th=
e
> problem call to sort in lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_In.py .
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> Why a SIGFPE? Dates seem to get converted to C doubles by Python for
> comparison. From debugging the core file, line 345 in
> Objects/floatobject.c in the python v2.1.3 source is causing the proble=
m:
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> 340 static int
> 341 float_compare(PyFloatObject *v, PyFloatObject *w)
> 342 {
> 343 double i =3D v->ob_fval;
> 344 double j =3D w->ob_fval;
> > 345 return (i < j) ? -1 : (i > j) ? 1 : 0;
> 346 }
> 347
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> w is a missing python object with a junk w->ob_fval, which presumably
> comes from the missing lastEditTime property of one of the objects
> involved in the comparison:
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> (ladebug) p *w.ob_type
> struct _typeobject {
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> ...snip...
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> tp_name =3D 0x3fffffa0648=3D"Missing";
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> ...snip...
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> tp_doc =3D 0x3fffffa04d0[Ladebug Warning: String is too long to displ=
ay.
> Only the first 128 characters are shown.]=3D"Represent totally unknown
> quantities\n\nMissing values are used to represent numberic quantities
> that are\nunknown. They support a";
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> ...snip...
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> }
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> The Python traceback:
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> File=20
"/ebi/msdlocal0/servers/Zope-2.5.1-src/ZServer/PubCore/ZServerPublisher.p=
y",=20
line 23, in __init__
> response=3Dresponse)
> File=20
"/ebi/msdlocal0/servers/Zope-2.5.1-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py",=
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line 150, in publish_module
> response =3D publish(request, module_name, after_list, debug=3Ddebu=
g)
> File=20
"/ebi/msdlocal0/servers/Zope-2.5.1-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py",=
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line 98, in publish
> request, bind=3D1)
> File=20
"/ebi/msdlocal0/servers/Zope-2.5.1-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/mapply.py", =
line=20
88, in mapply
> if debug is not None: return debug(object,args,context)
> File=20
"/ebi/msdlocal0/servers/Zope-2.5.1-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py",=
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line 39, in call_object
> result=3Dapply(object,args) # Type s<cr> to step into published obj=
ect.
> File=20
"/ebi/msdlocal0/servers/Zope-2.5.1-src/lib/python/Products/ZWiki/ZWikiPag=
e.py",=20
line 151, in __call__
> body =3D apply(self._render,(client,REQUEST,RESPONSE),kw)
> File=20
"/ebi/msdlocal0/servers/Zope-2.5.1-src/lib/python/Products/ZWiki/ZWikiPag=
e.py",=20
line 163, in _render
> return apply(method,(self, REQUEST, RESPONSE), kw)
> File=20
"/ebi/msdlocal0/servers/Zope-2.5.1-src/lib/python/Products/ZWiki/ZWikiPag=
e.py",=20
line 553, in render_prelinkdtmlhtml
> t =3D apply(DTMLDocument.__call__,(self, client, REQUEST, RESPONSE)=
, kw)
> File=20
"/ebi/msdlocal0/servers/Zope-2.5.1-src/lib/python/OFS/DTMLDocument.py", l=
ine=20
127, in __call__
> r=3Dapply(HTML.__call__, (self, (client, bself), REQUEST), kw)
> File=20
"/ebi/msdlocal0/servers/Zope-2.5.1-src/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_Str=
ing.py",=20
line 473, in __call__
> try: result =3D render_blocks(self._v_blocks, md)
> File=20
"/ebi/msdlocal0/servers/Zope-2.5.1-src/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_Try=
=2Epy",=20
line 140, in render
> return self.render_try_except(md)
> File=20
"/ebi/msdlocal0/servers/Zope-2.5.1-src/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_Try=
=2Epy",=20
line 149, in render_try_except
> result =3D render_blocks(self.section, md)
> File=20
"/ebi/msdlocal0/servers/Zope-2.5.1-src/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_In.=
py",=20
line 639, in renderwob
> sequence=3Dself.sort_sequence(sequence, md)
> File=20
"/ebi/msdlocal0/servers/Zope-2.5.1-src/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_In.=
py",=20
line 775, in sort_sequence
> s.sort()
> File=20
"/ebi/msdlocal0/servers/Zope-2.5.1-src/lib/python/DateTime/DateTime.py", =
line=20
1205, in equalTo
> return (self._t =3D=3D t)
> File "<string>", line 1, in ?
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> Regards,
> Peter.
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> Peter Keller. | "Research without indebtedness is
> European Bioinformatics Institute,| suspect, and somebody must always,
> Hinxton Hall, | somehow, be thanked."
> Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK | --- Umberto Eco
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