mabshoff wrote:
> 
> 
> On Feb 5, 12:28 pm, Jaap Spies <j.sp...@hccnet.nl> wrote:
>> mabshoff wrote:
>>> something deeper inside libSingular. I have posted some speculation
>>> why some runs fail and other runs do not, so I am not going to repeat
>>> it here and bore 99.5% of Sage devs to death again :)
>> I'm one of the other 0.5%! This will not stop me :)
> 
> Well, feel free to fix the problem and to submit a patch :)
> 

This is really boring :-)!

>> I have news from my Fedora 9 install. I built sage-3.2.3 again and tested:
>> No mysterious failures!
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> All tests passed!
>> Total time for all tests: 5741.2 seconds
>> Please see /home/jaap/downloads/sage-3.2.3/tmp/test.log for the complete log 
>> from this test.
>> [j...@paix sage-3.2.3]$
>>
>> Upgrading to sage-3.2.alpha0 gives:
>> The following packages will be upgraded:
>>    atlas-3.8.2.p1 doc-3.3.alpha0 ecm-6.2.1.p0 examples-3.3.alpha0 
>> extcode-3.3.alpha0 gmp-mpir-svn1555.p0 ipython-0.8.4.p1 jmol-11.6.rc8.p0 
>> jquery-1.2.6.p0
>> jqueryui-1.6r807svn.p0 jsmath-3.6a.p0 libgcrypt-1.4.3 matplotlib-0.98.3.p5 
>> mercurial-1.1.2 sage-3.3.alpha0 sage_scripts-3.3.alpha0 tinyMCE-3.2.0.2.p0
>>
>> Now running ./sage -check:
>>
>> First occurence:
>> sage -t  "devel/sage/sage/categories/functor.pyx"
>> A mysterious error (perphaps a memory error?) occurred, which may have 
>> crashed doctest.
>>          [0.8 s]
>> etcetera,
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> The following tests failed:
>>
>>         sage -t  "devel/sage/sage/categories/functor.pyx"
>>         sage -t  "devel/sage/sage/combinat/combinat.py"
>>         sage -t  "devel/sage/sage/rings/polynomial/toy_d_basis.py"
>>         sage -t  "devel/sage/sage/interfaces/gap.py"
>>         sage -t  "devel/sage/sage/schemes/elliptic_curves/ec_database.py"
>> Total time for all tests: 5908.4 seconds
>> Please see /home/jaap/downloads/sage-3.2.3/tmp/test.log for the complete log 
>> from this test.
>>
>> All but the toy_d_basis.py they are of type:
>> A mysterious error (perphaps a memory error?) occurred, which may have 
>> crashed doctest.
>>
>> You probably know very well what changed from 3.2.3 -> 3.3.alpha0
> 
> Yes, but nothing touched libSingular and there is no obvious culprit
> which touched the memory subsystem.
> 
>> Thoughts?
> 
> This bug has been around and detected ever since we tested on FC 9 64
> bit, but on the affected machine we had the kernel downgraded to FC8
> since we blamed somewhat incorrectly the FC9 kernel/glibc. But now we
> cannot ignore the problem any more, so now that we know what goes
> wrong we need to fix it :)
> 

I remember I noticed this problem as early as 20090119 on Fedora 9, 32 bits.
You seem to know more! I'm clueless to be honnest.

For one thing I know for sure(?) on this very system testing sage-3.2.3
has no failures. Testing 3.3.alpha0+ has mysterious errors!

We need to fix this :-)!

Jaap


>> Jaap
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Michael
> > 
> 


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