[Zope-dev] Segfault in zope.configuration

[Martin Aspeli]

Tres Seaver wrote:
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> Martin Aspeli wrote:
>> Fred Drake wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Martin Aspeli<optilude+lists at gmail.com>   wrote:
>>>> I'm pretty sure it is. The pdb rabbit hole ended at pyexpat.c. I can't
>>>> see what's going on there, but when I did 'r' it blew up.
>>> If you can point me at the ZCML file you were trying to parse (or
>>> email it to me privately if it's not in a public repository), I'd be
>>> glad to see what I can turn up.
>> The one that blew up is
>> http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/collective.xdv/trunk/collective/xdv/configure.zcml,
>> at least that's what z3c.autoinclude was calling the include directive
>> handler on.
>>
>>> I'll also need to know what version of Python you're using.
>> It's a fully patched SLES11. I think it's 2.6.4 (it's definitely 2.6),
>> though unfortunately I don't have access here on the weekend. I've used
>> virtualenv --no-site-packages to get a clean Python (SLES installs all
>> kinds of crap in the global site), and then used that to run a buildout.
>>
>> Not sure how SuSE compiles their Python. One thing to note is that SLES
>> has /usr/lib and /usr/lib64. Everything used in our build is (or should
>> be to my knowledge) 64-bit, so linked against the 64-bit versions. Then
>> again, I've had a lot of trouble getting things to build properly on SLES.
>>
>> The buildout's got client-specific stuff in it, but a minimal one would
>> basically just install Plone + collective.xdv in a
>> plone.recipe.zope2instance with the KGS at
>> http://good-py.appspot.com/release/dexterity/2.0-next?plone=4.0b1-1
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> One fault-isolation strategy would be to try building Python from source
> into someplace like /opt/Python-2.6.5, and see if the segfault recurs
> under it.

I actually tried this before the virtualenv, and couldn't get Python to 
build cleanly. I forget the details right now (it's been a frustrating 
week, server wise), but trying to build it again is definitely on my list.

> /me is deeply suspicious of *any* distro-provided python, ever.

Me too.

Martin

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