[issue20358] test_curses is failing on Ubuntu 13.10

2014-01-25 Thread Larry Hastings
Larry Hastings added the comment: I changed the unit test so it doesn't specify a minium row/column greater than the maximum row/column. The tests now pass. So I'm calling this good. Thanks for looking in to it, Zachary and Nadeem! -- assignee: -> larry resolution: -> fixed stage:

[issue20358] test_curses is failing on Ubuntu 13.10

2014-01-25 Thread Roundup Robot
Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 0ae768637a07 by Larry Hastings in branch 'default': Issue #20358: Tests for curses.window.overlay and curses.window.overwrite http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/0ae768637a07 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python

[issue20358] test_curses is failing on Ubuntu 13.10

2014-01-25 Thread Zachary Ware
Zachary Ware added the comment: Ok, I've tracked down where the error is happening, but I don't know enough about curses to suggest where it should go from here. It does appear to be the version of ncurses that Ubuntu 13.10 uses that's causing problems, version 5.9+20130608. The issue stems

[issue20358] test_curses is failing

2014-01-23 Thread Nadeem Vawda
Nadeem Vawda added the comment: I can reproduce this (also on Ubuntu 13.10 64-bit). Maybe there's a bug in the version of curses distributed with the latest Ubuntu release? It looks like our only Ubuntu buildbot is using 8.04 (almost 6 years old!). Also note that you won't be able to reproduce t

[issue20358] test_curses is failing

2014-01-23 Thread Zachary Ware
Zachary Ware added the comment: I'm on Windows until this evening; I'll see what I can see when I'm on a machine that can actually build _curses. I don't see any failures on any of the buildbots, so I'm not sure how likely it is I'll be able to reproduce your failure. (And btw, that patch I h

[issue20358] test_curses is failing

2014-01-23 Thread Serhiy Storchaka
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[issue20358] test_curses is failing

2014-01-23 Thread Nadeem Vawda
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[issue20358] test_curses is failing

2014-01-23 Thread Larry Hastings
New submission from Larry Hastings: If I build current trunk on my workstation (Linux 64-bit, Ubuntu 13.10) then run % ./python -m test -u all test_curses I get a traceback. Here's the interesting part: File "/home/larry/src/python/buildtrunk/Lib/test/test_curses.py", line 118