[Zope3-dev] Error running ZODB tests on Linux

[Jeremy Hylton]

On Sat, 09 Mar 2002 14:21:24 +0000
 Steve Alexander <steve@cat-box.net> wrote:
> Just checked out the Zope3 branch, and ran the tests on
> Linux.

Thanks for the report, Steve.  The MTStorage tests are
significantly different from all the other ZODB tests --
more along the lines of functional tests than unit tests.
I'm not too surprised that they're catching bugs caused by
the new Cache and Persistence interfaces and APIs.

It's unfortunate that the tests are so non-deterministic.
What happens is largely an accident of the way threads of
scheduled.

I'll try running the tests in a loop and see if I can
provoke this bug.  I think I recall seeing it once during
testing, but thought it was silenced by other bug fixes.

Jeremy