Bus error is basically unaligned memory access.

...

...do you feel like trying to get a backtrace from GDB again? :) (The last
time likely didn't end well because the machine stack got somehow
corrupted.)

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Cyd Haselton <report@bugs.python.org>
wrote:

>
> Cyd Haselton added the comment:
>
> Thanks Ryan.
>
> Running ./python -m test (with the edit to the __init__.py for ctypes)
> produces the following error:
>
> [151/390/18] test_hash
> Fatal Python error: Bus error
>
> Current thread 0xb6f72ec8 (most recent call first):
>   File "/bld/pyt/cpython-android/Lib/test/test_hash.py", line 89 in
> test_unaligned_buffers
>   File "/bld/pyt/cpython-android/Lib/unittest/case.py", line 577 in run
>   File "/bld/pyt/cpython-android/Lib/unittest/case.py", line 625 in
> __call__
>   File "/bld/pyt/cpython-android/Lib/unittest/suite.py", line 122 in run
>   File "/bld/pyt/cpython-android/Lib/unittest/suite.py", line 84 in
> __call__
>   File "/bld/pyt/cpython-android/Lib/unittest/suite.py", line 122 in run
>   File "/bld/pyt/cpython-android/Lib/unittest/suite.py", line 84 in
> __call__
>   File "/bld/pyt/cpython-android/Lib/unittest/suite.py", line 122 in run
>   File "/bld/pyt/cpython-android/Lib/unittest/suite.py", line 84 in
> __call__
>   File "/bld/pyt/cpython-android/Lib/test/support/__init__.py", line 1668
> in run
>   File "/bld/pyt/cpython-android/Lib/test/support/__init__.py", line 1769
> in _run_suite
>   File "/bld/pyt/cpython-android/Lib/test/support/__init__.py", line 1803
> in run_unittest
>   File "/bld/pyt/cpython-android/Lib/test/regrtest.py", line 1279 in
> test_runner
>   File "/bld/pyt/cpython-android/Lib/test/regrtest.py", line 1280 in
> runtest_inner
>   File "/bld/pyt/cpython-android/Lib/test/regrtest.py", line 978 in runtest
>   File "/bld/pyt/cpython-android/Lib/test/regrtest.py", line 763 in main
>   File "/bld/pyt/cpython-android/Lib/test/regrtest.py", line 1564 in
> main_in_temp_cwd  File "/bld/pyt/cpython-android/Lib/test/__main__.py",
> line 3 in <module>
>   File "/bld/pyt/cpython-android/Lib/runpy.py", line 85 in _run_code
>   File "/bld/pyt/cpython-android/Lib/runpy.py", line 170 in
> _run_module_as_main
> Bus error
>
> Not sure what a bus error is...off to Google
>
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