Bug 52846

Summary: Python interpreter seg fault on SMP machine
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Brian Barrett <brbarret>
Component: pythonAssignee: Trond Eivind Glomsrxd <teg>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Brian Barrett 2001-08-29 22:39:13 UTC 
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Description of problem:
When running the program:

#! /usr/bin/python
print 'Hello, world'

Python will reliably seg fault.  By reliably, I mean approximately 1/4th of
the time.

Examining the core file with gdb reveals the following stack trace:

(gdb) where
#0  __errno_location () at errno.c:25
#1  0x4013f4e7 in __readlink () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#2  0x0805018c in Py_Main () at eval.c:41
#3  0x0804fc73 in main () at eval.c:41
#4  0x40080177 in __libc_start_main (main=0x804fc54 <main>, argc=2, 
    ubp_av=0xbffff9d4, init=0x804f1ec <_init>, fini=0x8096a1c <_fini>, 
    rtld_fini=0x4000e184 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffff9cc)
    at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:129


The system is a dual P-III 1Ghz machine running RH 7.1 with the 2.4.3
kernel contained in the kernel-smp-2.4.3-12 kernel RPM.  All available 7.1
updates have been applied.

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How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
Repeatedly ran test program included in description
	

Additional info:
Comment 1 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2002-08-13 23:22:37 UTC 
Not seeing this with RHL 7.3 or newer (which is all I've tested) - reopen with
details if you can reproduce.