[Mageia-sysadm] Need sysadm help to identify a build problem

Pascal Terjan pterjan at gmail.com
Fri Sep 14 17:09:34 CEST 2012


On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Claire Revillet <grenoya at zarb.org> wrote:
> Hello dear system administrators :)
>
> One of my packages fail to pass the tests on the BS (it succed on my box,
> same arch).
> The problem seemed to be with the multiprocessing module of Python. Whether
> the problem is really with the BS or not could be easy checked:
> We just need to run `python -c "import multiprocessing as mp; mp.Pool(2)"`
> on the BS (x86_64 would be the best).
> If it ends up correctly (no errors, no messages) i would have to search
> somewhere else.
>
> I'm not sure i can't access the BS by myself (i'm quite sure I can, in fact)
> that's why i'm asking it here: could someone please do this test for me ?

I didn't create a chroot to try in real conditions but if /dev/shm is
not available in the chroot multiprocessing will fail with "OSError:
[Errno 38] Function not implemented"


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