On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 16:43 +0800, Amos Kong wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 02:30:58AM -0500, Jan Stancek wrote:
> > Right, the try-except-finally won't work in 2.4, sorry about that.
> 
> Ack
> 
> btw, lmr, the latest autotest always hangs with python2.4
> but it's fine with python2.6
> 
> [root@t173 kvm]# ../../bin/autotest control  --verbose
> 16:41:47 INFO | Writing results to 
> /home/devel/autotest-upstream/client/results/default
> 16:41:47 INFO | Initializing the state engine
> 16:41:47 DEBUG| Persistent state client.steps now set to []
> 16:41:47 DEBUG| Selected harness: standalone
> 16:41:47 INFO | Symlinking init scripts
> 16:41:47 DEBUG| Running 'grep :initdefault: /etc/inittab'
> 16:41:47 DEBUG| Running 'ln -sf 
> /home/devel/autotest-upstream/client/tools/autotest /etc/init.d/autotest'
> 16:41:47 DEBUG| Running 'ln -sf 
> /home/devel/autotest-upstream/client/tools/autotest /etc/rc5.d/S99autotest'
> 16:41:47 DEBUG| Dropping caches
> 16:41:47 DEBUG| Running 'sync'
> 16:41:47 DEBUG| Running 'echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches'
> [hang]...

Amos, after fixing the illegal try/except/finally block, I didn't get
the problem you just described on py 2.4... One thing that I did notice
is that dropping caches like:

echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

May freeze buggy kernels. Not sure if that's what happened in your case.


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