I know for a fact that there seem to be random race condition when
building in sage-on-gentoo with 12 threads. Not in a pickle as far as
I can tell. It always involves some font file generated by freetype for
matplotlib. Usually just restarting building the documentation from
scratch make it go away.

François

> On 20/05/2015, at 15:50, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen <step...@missouri.edu> 
> wrote:
> 
> I have been having some trouble building documentation for sage on my
> FreeBSD system.  Mostly the errors are inconsistent.  But I finally
> found a consistent error.
> 
> As Sphinx traverses the doctree, it creates files called
> environment.pickle.  I discovered that Sphinx was crashing when
> performing the command pickle.load, suggesting that the file
> environment.pickle was corrupted.
> 
> Is it possible that there exists a race condition in which two Sphinx
> processes could be writing to the same environment.pickle?
> 
> Or is there any other reason why one of these files would be corrupt?
> 
> Thanks, Stephen
> 
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