On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Jan Urbański <wulczer@wulczer.org> wrote:
>> That seems to have fixed it, so I have applied the patch. Would you like
>> to supply some comments to got with it?
>
> The comment would be something like
>
> /* XXX it appears that in some circumstantes the reference count of the
> spiexceptions module drops to zero causing a Python assert failure when
> the garbage collector visits the module. This has been observed on the
> buildfarm. To fix this, add an additional ref for the module here. */
>
> I have no idea why the refcount of the module becomes zero, debug prints
> I added on my system were always showing 1.
But does bumping the ref count then create a leak the rest of the time?
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