Re: 0.6 is around the corner!

[Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>]

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
>
>> I've run into a build issue with recent master on x86_64 and Loongson 3A
>> (both hosted on Debian wheezy).  Python 3 fails in the tests with
>> "OSError: out of pty devices"
>
> Any idea what this test is doing?  (Maybe Cyril knows?)

Cyril is apparently unable to reproduce the problem on his system, which
he tells me is Debian Sid running in a VM.

Eric Bavier reported seeing the same problem on x86_64 Trisquel 6.0.

See below for the tail of my build log.

     Mark


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Re-running test 'test_pty' in verbose mode
test__copy_eof_on_all (test.test_pty.SmallPtyTests)
Test the empty read EOF case on both master_fd and stdin. ... ok
test__copy_to_each (test.test_pty.SmallPtyTests)
Test the normal data case on both master_fd and stdin. ... ok
test_basic (test.test_pty.PtyTest) ... Calling master_open()
skipped 'Pseudo-terminals (seemingly) not functional.'
test_fork (test.test_pty.PtyTest) ... test test_pty failed
calling pty.fork()
ERROR

======================================================================
ERROR: test_fork (test.test_pty.PtyTest)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/nix-build-python-3.3.3.drv-13/Python-3.3.3/Lib/test/test_pty.py", line 116, in test_fork
    pid, master_fd = pty.fork()
  File "/tmp/nix-build-python-3.3.3.drv-13/Python-3.3.3/Lib/pty.py", line 107, in fork
    master_fd, slave_fd = openpty()
  File "/tmp/nix-build-python-3.3.3.drv-13/Python-3.3.3/Lib/pty.py", line 29, in openpty
    master_fd, slave_name = _open_terminal()
  File "/tmp/nix-build-python-3.3.3.drv-13/Python-3.3.3/Lib/pty.py", line 70, in _open_terminal
    raise os.error('out of pty devices')
OSError: out of pty devices

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Ran 4 tests in 0.020s

FAILED (errors=1, skipped=1)
Makefile:881: recipe for target 'test' failed
make: *** [test] Error 1
phase `check' failed after 563 seconds
note: keeping build directory `/tmp/nix-build-python-3.3.3.drv-13'
builder for `/gnu/store/7a9dv96kb1z7547ms4k9bcywg4c0pf0j-python-3.3.3.drv' failed with exit code 1
@ build-failed /gnu/store/7a9dv96kb1z7547ms4k9bcywg4c0pf0j-python-3.3.3.drv - 1 builder for `/gnu/store/7a9dv96kb1z7547ms4k9bcywg4c0pf0j-python-3.3.3.drv' failed with exit code 1
cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/02xs98dh962srhs71hgiq046d9jgsk8z-python-wrapper-3.3.3.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/dlwvzvnpmprmlgw9b7bccidd1fw8gawg-glib-2.39.1.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/500mhfzdk6kr344y3hwhi2i5y61w7bn5-ghostscript-9.06.0.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/bbwqs6s4c2bzqi24r1wfh3vyh1q6q1v1-emacs-24.3.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
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