The tests that you mention run o.k., except capi, but that looks harmless:

stefan@opensolaris:~/svn/py3k/Lib/test# ../../python test_capi.py
test_instancemethod (__main__.CAPITest) ... ok

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Ran 1 test in 0.000s

OK
internal test_L_code
internal test_Z_code
internal test_capsule
internalTraceback (most recent call last):
  File "test_capi.py", line 170, in <module>
    test_main()
  File "test_capi.py", line 130, in test_main
    print("internal", name)
ImportError: No module named _curses



Tests that fail:

test_ascii_formatd, test_calendar, test_datetime, test_distutils,
test_email, test_httpservers, test_mailbox, test_multiprocessing,
test_os, test_pipes, test_platform, test_poll, test_popen, test_pty,
test_pydoc, test_quopri, test_select, test_signal, test_strftime,
test_strptime, test_subprocess, test_sys, test_tempfile, test_threading


A lot of these fail either due to the inability to allocate resources or
the fact that strftime appears to give weird results.