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Bug 518291

Summary: Python management tools must handle SystemExit exception properly
Product: Red Hat Enterprise MRG Reporter: Ted Ross <tross>
Component: qpid-qmfAssignee: Nuno Santos <nsantos>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Jiri Kolar <jkolar>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 1.1.6CC: aortega, freznice, jkolar, tross
Target Milestone: 1.3   
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Previously, the 'SystemExit' exception was thrown by calls to 'sys.exit(n)' in some versions of Python in the Python management tools. With this update, system exits are handled properly on all versions of the Python interpreter.
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Description Ted Ross 2009-08-19 18:19:47 UTC
Description of problem:

The SystemExit exception is raised by calls to sys.exit(n) in some versions of Python.  

It is important that the scripts handle system exits properly on all versions of the Python interpreter that they will be deployed on.

Comment 2 Ted Ross 2009-11-05 13:08:51 UTC
*** Bug 533165 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Nuno Santos 2010-05-11 21:50:20 UTC
The issue was due to the handling of the SystemExit exception (namely trying to call SystemExit.__repr__, which doesn't exist in python 2.4.3), not due to the exception itself being raised.

But the offending code is no longer in the codebase, and I haven't been able to replicate the issue on python 2.4.3 (RHEL 5) nor on python 2.6 (RHEL 6).

Comment 5 Jiri Kolar 2010-09-20 13:27:32 UTC
fixed on qpid-tools-0.7.946106-10

validated on RHEL5.5/RHEL4  i386 / x86_64  

packages:
# rpm -qa | grep -E '(qpid|openais|rhm)' | sort -u

openais-0.80.6-16.el5_5.7
openais-devel-0.80.6-16.el5_5.7
python-qpid-0.7.946106-14.el5
qpid-cpp-client-0.7.946106-15.el5
qpid-cpp-client-devel-0.7.946106-15.el5
qpid-cpp-client-devel-docs-0.7.946106-15.el5
qpid-cpp-client-ssl-0.7.946106-15.el5
qpid-cpp-mrg-debuginfo-0.7.946106-14.el5
qpid-cpp-server-0.7.946106-15.el5
qpid-cpp-server-cluster-0.7.946106-15.el5
qpid-cpp-server-devel-0.7.946106-15.el5
qpid-cpp-server-ssl-0.7.946106-15.el5
qpid-cpp-server-store-0.7.946106-15.el5
qpid-cpp-server-xml-0.7.946106-15.el5
qpid-java-client-0.7.946106-9.el5
qpid-java-common-0.7.946106-9.el5
qpid-tools-0.7.946106-10.el5
rhm-docs-0.7.946106-5.el5
rh-tests-distribution-MRG-Messaging-qpid_common-1.6-53

->VERIFIED

Comment 6 Martin Prpič 2010-10-07 12:34:13 UTC
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
Previously, the 'SystemExit' exception was thrown by calls to 'sys.exit(n)' in some versions of Python in the  Python management tools. With this update, system exits are handled properly on all versions of the Python interpreter.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2010-10-14 15:58:05 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0773.html