{"id":1393,"date":"2010-06-02T15:24:28","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T20:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2023-12-20T16:25:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T21:25:16","slug":"review-board-tests-scmtool-segmentation-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/2010\/06\/02\/review-board-tests-scmtool-segmentation-fault\/","title":{"rendered":"Review Board Tests: SCMTool Segmentation Fault"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t honestly say I’ve been doing much test-driven development on Review Board.\u00a0 Django is a really cool web-framework, but I miss all of the nice testing tools from the Rails ecosystem.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, today, I decided to run the tests, and BAM – Segmentation Fault:<\/p>\n

Testing Perforce binary diff parsing … SKIP: perforce\/p4python is not installed
\nTesting PerforceTool.get_changeset … SKIP: perforce\/p4python is not installed
\nTesting Perforce empty and normal diff parsing … SKIP: perforce\/p4python is not installed
\nTesting Perforce empty diff parsing … SKIP: perforce\/p4python is not installed
\nTesting PerforceTool.get_file … SKIP: perforce\/p4python is not installed
\nTesting parsing SVN diff with binary file … ok
\nTesting SVNTool.get_file … Segmentation Fault<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yikes.\u00a0 Getting a segfault in Python is unusual, and a little jarring.\u00a0 However, it did let me narrow down the problem a bit:\u00a0 it must have to do with the pysvn bindings that Review Board uses to talk to Subversion, because those are written in C++ (which can certainly segfault).<\/p>\n

The machine I was using had Ubuntu Hardy on it, and the Hardy packages have pysvn 1.5.2-1.\u00a0 Taking a look at the pysvn homepage<\/a>, the most recent version is actually 1.7.2.<\/p>\n

So, I uninstalled pysvn, downloaded the source<\/a> for 1.7.2, compiled it, and installed it manually.<\/p>\n

Segfault gone.\u00a0 Tests pass.\u00a0 Awesome sauce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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