If the error is reproducable and you can run wxPython, you could use the excellent WinPdb debugger, which ships with SPE (python editor): http://www.digitalpeers.com/pythondebugger/
... but if you can only run your script on a remote server this won't help you. Stani -- SPE - http://pythonide.stani.be On 7 Mrz., 20:15, "George Sakkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a pure python program (no C extensions) that occasionally core > dumps in a non-reproducible way. The program is started by a (non- > python) cgi script when a form is submitted. It involves running a > bunch of other programs through subprocess in multiple threads and > writing its output in several files. So the only suspicious parts I > can think of is subprocess and/or multithreading. For the > multithreading part I'm using a modified version of threadpool.py > (http://www.chrisarndt.de/en/software/python/threadpool/), which is > built on top of the threading and Queue stdlib modules. Whatever bugs > may linger there, I'd hope that they would show up as normal Python > exceptions instead of segfaults. > > All I have now is a few not particularly insightful core files (actual > path names and args changed for privacy): > > /home/gsakkis/foo>gdb --core core.20140 > GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (5.2-2) > Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and > you are > welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain > conditions. > Type "show copying" to see the conditions. > There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for > details. > This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux". > Core was generated by `python2.5 /home/gsakkis/foo/foo.py --XXX -- > max=30 --bar=/tmp/83840` > Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. > #0 0x080b222d in ?? () > (gdb) backtrace > #0 0x080b222d in ?? () > #1 0x080b28d1 in ?? () > #2 0x080fa8ab in ?? () > #3 0x0805c918 in ?? () > (...) > #28 0x080b310f in ?? () > #29 0x080dbfdd in ?? () > #30 0x40021fef in ?? () > > Any hints ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
