Multiprocessing goes into an infinite loop during shutdown, trying to connect to a remote queue - I *think* during finalization. 

The actual loop appears to be the while(1) in connection.py line 251, and I think it is being called initially from manager.py finalization.

I can reliably reproduce but my code base is large and ugly, and I am still trimming down to a nice clean sample to submit.

After getting into the infinite loop, here's exception from CTRL-C (posted just to show stack trace -- i am still working on getting come sample code together -- meant to show it is infact in that while(1) a 251 in connection.py):

KeyboardInterrupt
^CError in atexit._run_exitfuncs:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs
    func(*targs, **kargs)
  File "/home/drraid/code/fuzzer/fuzznet/multiprocessing/util.py", line 260, in _exit_function
    _run_finalizers(0)
  File "/home/drraid/code/fuzzer/fuzznet/multiprocessing/util.py", line 235, in _run_finalizers
    finalizer()
  File "/home/drraid/code/fuzzer/fuzznet/multiprocessing/util.py", line 174, in __call__
    res = self._callback(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
  File "/home/drraid/code/fuzzer/fuzznet/multiprocessing/managers.py", line 773, in _decref
    conn = _Client(token.address, authkey=authkey)
  File "/home/drraid/code/fuzzer/fuzznet/multiprocessing/connection.py", line 134, in Client
    c = SocketClient(address)
  File "/home/drraid/code/fuzzer/fuzznet/multiprocessing/connection.py", line 258, in SocketClient
    time.sleep(0.01)
KeyboardInterrupt
Error in sys.exitfunc:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs
    func(*targs, **kargs)
  File "/home/drraid/code/fuzzer/fuzznet/multiprocessing/util.py", line 260, in _exit_function
    _run_finalizers(0)
  File "/home/drraid/code/fuzzer/fuzznet/multiprocessing/util.py", line 235, in _run_finalizers
    finalizer()
  File "/home/drraid/code/fuzzer/fuzznet/multiprocessing/util.py", line 174, in __call__
    res = self._callback(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
  File "/home/drraid/code/fuzzer/fuzznet/multiprocessing/managers.py", line 773, in _decref
    conn = _Client(token.address, authkey=authkey)
  File "/home/drraid/code/fuzzer/fuzznet/multiprocessing/connection.py", line 134, in Client
    c = SocketClient(address)
  File "/home/drraid/code/fuzzer/fuzznet/multiprocessing/connection.py", line 258, in SocketClient
    time.sleep(0.01)
KeyboardInterrupt

Did you finish the code to reproduce the problem?

Can you still reproduce the issue?

At nearly 5 years of age, this issue unfortunately never saw a viable demonstration of how to provoke the reported behavior.  Hopefully the reporter either (1) discovered the nature of the problem originated elsewhere and he was able to quickly fix it, or (2) won the lottery and merrily forgot all about this issue (and many other real-world issues).  Many things have changed in the multiprocessing module in the last 5 years and it is difficult to see how one might deliberately reproduce this now.  In the event that there is a reproducible issue like described herein, we hope that someone will step forward to open a new issue with more information.