Bug 614680 – Try to print repr() when a fatal garbage collection assertion fails

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Bug 614680 - Try to print repr() when a fatal garbage collection assertion fails

Summary:	Try to print repr() when a fatal garbage collection assertion fails

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

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Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	python (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.0
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity medium
Target Milestone:	rc
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Assigned To:	Dave Malcolm
QA Contact:	Petr Šplíchal
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Blocks:	850013 971858
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Reported:	2010-07-14 20:11 EDT by Dave Malcolm
Modified:	2016-05-31 21:39 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Fixed In Version:	python-2.6.6-5.el6
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Last Closed:	2011-05-19 07:36:42 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2011:0554	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Moderate: python security, bug fix, and enhancement update	2011-05-19 07:35:29 EDT

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Description Dave Malcolm 2010-07-14 20:11:16 EDT

Am seeing occasional assertion failures in the garbage collector.

These are typically reference-counting errors _somewhere_ in one of the DSOs linked into the python process, and are thus hard to track down.

See e.g. bug 613917

Arguably we could build without assertions, but this could well turn these errors into segfaults rather than asserts.

I've written a patch that changes these assertions so that they also attempt to print the repr() of the problem object to stderr before aborting, in the hope of better crash reports.

Sent upstream as:
http://bugs.python.org/issue9263

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-19 07:36:42 EDT

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-2011-0554.html

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-19 09:07:29 EDT

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-2011-0554.html

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