I can get the Python interpreter to core dump when running the following
code:

http://pastebin.com/f261f398f

To reproduce:
- run the above code and press ctrl-c to quit while it is running.  It
crashes (segfault) the interpreter every few times you stop it like this.

I think it has something to do with the thread launching another thread
containing a queue.

- Tested on Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux 8.10 (both running Python 2.5.2)

little more info:


If you create a Queue in the main thread and pass this to each worker
thread, it works fine.

If you create the Queue inside the worker thread and then pass it to a
new thread, it can crash.

when it crashes, you get an immediate core dump with no error messages
or stack trace.

This happens very intermittently but can be reproduced easily.

Here is stack trace.

PyEval_EvalFrameEx(_frame * 0x00a62060, int 83) line 2841 + 6 bytes
fast_function(_object * 0x00000000, _object * * * 0x00fbfa98, int 1, int
1, int 9870576) line 3946
call_function(_object * * * 0x00fbfa98, int 0) line 3880 + 16 bytes
PyEval_EvalFrameEx(_frame * 0x00a60ac0, int 131) line 2515
fast_function(_object * 0x00000000, _object * * * 0x00fbfbe0, int 1, int
1, int 9870576) line 3946
call_function(_object * * * 0x00fbfbe0, int 0) line 3880 + 16 bytes
PyEval_EvalFrameEx(_frame * 0x00a60918, int 131) line 2515
PyEval_EvalCodeEx(PyCodeObject * 0x00a142c8, _object * 0x00a60918,
_object * 0x00000001, _object * * 0x00a194ac, int 1, _object * *
0x00000000, int 0, _object * * 0x00000000, int 0, _object * 0x00000000)
line 3104 + 11 bytes
function_call(_object * 0x00a35350, _object * 0x00a19498, _object *
0x00000000) line 529 + 64 bytes
PyObject_Call(_object * 0x00a35350, _object * 0x00a19498, _object *
0x00000000) line 2506 + 15 bytes
instancemethod_call(_object * 0x00a35350, _object * 0x00a19498, _object
* 0x00000000) line 2579 + 17 bytes
PyObject_Call(_object * 0x009fdef8, _object * 0x008c1038, _object *
0x00000000) line 2506 + 15 bytes
PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords(_object * 0x009fdef8, _object *
0x008c1038, _object * 0x00000000) line 3729
t_bootstrap(void * 0x008c7608) line 426 + 26 bytes
bootstrap(void * 0x00234d08) line 122 + 7 bytes
_threadstartex(void * 0x009aeaf0) line 227 + 13 bytes
KERNEL32! 77e5b3bc()

//////////////////////////////////////////

	if (tstate->frame->f_exc_type != NULL) /* crash: tstate->frame is NULL */
		reset_exc_info(tstate);
	else {
		assert(tstate->frame->f_exc_value == NULL);
		assert(tstate->frame->f_exc_traceback == NULL);
	}

note:
on Windows Vista it is not ery intermittant :)
crashes every time the program is stopped.

This seems to be duplicate of issue1856. Let me close this entry.