The test (added in issue #20123) broke one of the stable FreeBSD buildbots:

http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/AMD64%20FreeBSD%209.0%203.x/builds/6102

The log for that test run indicates the traceback and the test can be found in Lib/test/test_pydoc.py (PydocImportTest.test_modules_search_builtin).

The problem could be one (or more) of several possibilities:

* the test is broken in an esoteric way
* the buildbot has issues
* the platform has issues
* the test exposes some other underlying bug elsewhere

The test itself is not critical but I hope to re-enable it before beta 2 ends in a couple weeks.

Stefan: any insight you could offer on the problem, particularly relative to the platform and buildbot, would be greatly appreciated.

The buildbot runs --without-doc-strings. Usually you just have to add the
@requires_docstrings decorator to some tests.

New changeset 13edfab6c3c0 by Eric Snow in branch 'default':
Issue #20484: Disable the 2 remaining "modules" tests in test_pydoc.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/13edfab6c3c0

The other two test_modules* tests in test_pydoc are also having issues and I've likewise disabled them (see issue20484).  They'll need to be investigated and re-enabled too.

New changeset 7cfb3db36ec6 by Eric Snow in branch '3.4':
Issue #20484: Disable the 2 remaining "modules" tests in test_pydoc.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/7cfb3db36ec6

test_synopsis_sourceless is also failing on koobs-freebsd9 (3.4) and has been for a while. Failing test inlined here, for full buildlog, see msg215997 in #20123

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ERROR: test_synopsis_sourceless (test.test_pydoc.PydocDocTest)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/home/buildbot/python/3.4.koobs-freebsd9/build/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py", line 504, in test_synopsis_sourceless
    synopsis = pydoc.synopsis(filename)
  File "/usr/home/buildbot/python/3.4.koobs-freebsd9/build/Lib/pydoc.py", line 238, in synopsis
    mtime = os.stat(filename).st_mtime
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/home/buildbot/python/3.4.koobs-freebsd9/build/Lib/__pycache__/os.cpython-34.pyc'

Many test_pydoc tests are failing on the FreeBSD 9 buildbot, example:

http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/AMD64%20FreeBSD%209.0%203.x/builds/6870/steps/test/logs/stdio

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FAIL: test_html_doc (test.test_pydoc.PydocDocTest)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/home/buildbot/buildarea/3.x.krah-freebsd/build/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py", line 418, in test_html_doc
    self.fail("outputs are not equal, see diff above")
AssertionError: outputs are not equal, see diff above

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FAIL: test_text_doc (test.test_pydoc.PydocDocTest)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/home/buildbot/buildarea/3.x.krah-freebsd/build/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py", line 432, in test_text_doc
    self.fail("outputs are not equal, see diff above")
AssertionError: outputs are not equal, see diff above

Whilst testing #19980 I noticed that three tests are still skipped.

I don't know what errors was on FreeBSD (logs are no longer available), but these tests modify sys.path and the list of weakrefs to logging handlers. They also require relative long time to run.

As said koobs, the full log was attached to issue20123.

With test_synopsis_sourceless and test_non_ascii there were different issues, related to -OO. Fixed in changesets 663a83c1d42d, d7b3e722152d, 94edd0ef4c2a.