[lxml-dev] PyThread_release_lock segmentation fault

[Martijn Faassen]

Eli Stevens (WG.c) wrote:
> Martijn Faassen wrote:
>> Holger Joukl wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> - I use a more recent Python 2.4 version (2.4.3); maybe the
>>> Python2.3-threading-lxml
>>> issue also extends to earlier Python 2.4-versions?
>> I recall it did happen in early Python 2.4 versions. The trunk scans for 
>> this and should work around this problem.
> 
> Yes, I've installed the python 2.4.4 on the machine in question and
> after a recompile of lxml-1.1.2, everything seems to be working, minus a 
> few test failures (that seemed to be the same as the ones on trunk?).

Could you let us know which tests are failing?

> Thanks for both your help looking into this, and apologies for using up
> your time with what was actually an unrelated issue (in my defense, the 
> whole "1.1.2 fails/trunk works" is a nice bit of misdirection! ;).

No problem at all. We need to do a release with this fix in there.

Regards,

Martijn