> How strange. I've had no problem reproducing the failures; they've

> occurred every time I've run test_packaging since the bug was opened
> (on both Ubuntu and Windows). And the Windows buildbots seem to be
> failing consistently as well...

On a given machine, if the failure occurs, it fails every time. I got failures on
Ubuntu 32-bit and Windows 32-bit every time, too. One more data
point: on OS X Leopard (32-bit), there were no failures at all in my testing.

I only saw the tests pass when I tested on 64-bit Ubuntu variants (and OS X
32-bit).

N.B. All my testing was on the pythonv branch - though I don't believe that
had any bearing on the tests, as they also failed on the default branch (on
Ubuntu Jaunty 32-bit, where I do maintenance for logging etc.)