python ports broken (sem_destroy: Resource temporarily unavailable)

[Daniel Eischen]

On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Hye-Shik Chang wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 09:06:14AM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > Nope, still broken.  Can you confirm that you can build e.g. the
> > > py23-bsddb3-4.1.6_1 port?  It hangs for me here:
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > > byte-compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/bsddb3/tests/test_queue.py to test_queue.pyc
> > > byte-compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/bsddb3/tests/test_recno.py to test_recno.pyc
> > > byte-compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/bsddb3/tests/test_thread.py to test_thread.pyc
> > 
> > Thanks, that was a good test.  I'm behind a slow dial-up so I
> > appreciate the smallish distfile.
> > 
> > I committed a fix to libc/gen/sem.c.  The port appears to build
> > (and install) OK for me now.
> > 
> 
> Thank you very much!
> py-bsddb unittest is successfully passed with your fixes. And almost
> all of python regression test set is okay except test_threaded_import.
> 
> alice(perky):/usr/local/lib/python2.3/test% sudo python test_threaded_import.py
> Trying 20 threads ... OK.
> Trying 50 threads ...
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "test_threaded_import.py", line 56, in ?
>     test_main()
>   File "test_threaded_import.py", line 50, in test_main
>     thread.start_new_thread(task, ())
> thread.error: can't start new thread
> 
> FYI, python's thread creation routine is located on
> work/Python-2.3.3/Python/thread_pthread.h:188.

How many threads does it try after "Trying 50 threads..."?  You
may have to increase kern.threads.max_threads_per_proc.

-- 
Dan