[reportlab-users] pyRXP - strange non-deterministic errors on python 2.7 and 64-bit Linux

[Roger Whittaker]

OK - new test.

ubuntu 11.04 server installed freshly with updates.

$ cat /etc/issue.net 
Ubuntu 11.04

$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.38-8-server #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:49:04 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ dpkg -l python libc6 gcc
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold

| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend

|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)

||/ Name                           Version                        Description

+++-==============================-==============================-============================================================================
ii  gcc                            4:4.5.2-1ubuntu3               The GNU C compiler
ii  libc6                          2.13-0ubuntu13                 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  python                         2.7.1-0ubuntu5                 interactive high-level object-oriented language (default version)

http://www.reportlab.com/ftp/pyRXP-1.14-daily-unix.tar.gz downloaded this morning.

Directories /home/roger/a, /home/roger/aa, /home/roger/aaa, etc all have the same contents as before.

roger at ubuntu:~/a$ ls -l
total 24
-rw-r--r-- 1 roger roger  25 2011-05-16 14:32 first-file.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 roger roger 229 2011-05-16 15:04 foo.xml
-rwxr--r-- 1 roger roger 161 2011-05-16 11:46 process.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 roger roger  25 2011-05-16 14:32 second-longer-file.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 roger roger 132 2011-05-16 14:23 test.dtd

roger at ubuntu:~$ for i in /home/roger/a*; do cd $i; ./process.py foo.xml; done 2>/home/roger/errors

$ grep pyRXP /home/roger/errors 
pyRXP.error: Error: Couldn't open entity b, file:///home/roger/aaaaaaaaaaa/second-lger-fifile.xml
pyRXP.error: Error: Couldn't open entity b, file:///home/roger/aaaaaaaaaaaa/second-nger-fifile.xml
pyRXP.error: Error: Couldn't open entity b, file:///home/roger/aaaaaaaaaaaaa/secondonger-fifile.xml
pyRXP.error: Error: Couldn't open entity b, file:///home/roger/aaaaaaaaaaaaaa/seconlonger-fifile.xml
pyRXP.error: Error: Couldn't open entity b, file:///home/roger/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/seco-longer-fifile.xml
pyRXP.error: Error: Couldn't open entity b, file:///home/roger/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/secd-longer-fifile.xml
pyRXP.error: Error: Couldn't open entity b, file:///home/roger/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/second-lger-fifile.xml
pyRXP.error: Error: Couldn't open entity b, file:///home/roger/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/second-nger-fifile.xml
pyRXP.error: Error: Couldn't open entity b, file:///home/roger/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/secondonger-fifile.xml
pyRXP.error: Error: Couldn't open entity b, file:///home/roger/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/seconlonger-fifile.xml


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Roger Whittaker
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