On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Brian Thorne <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Brian Thorne <hardbyte@gmail.com> added the comment:
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> With the example script attached I see the exception every time. On Ubuntu 10.10 with Python 2.6
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> Since the offending line in multiprocesing/queues.py (233) is a debug statement, just commenting it out seems to stop this exception.
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> Looking at the util file shows the logging functions to be all of the form:
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>    if _logger:
>        _logger.log(...
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> Could it be possible that after the check the _logger global (or the debug function) is destroyed by the exit handler? Can we convince them to stick around until such a time that they cannot be called?
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> Adding a small delay before joining also seems to work, but is ugly. Why should another Process *have* to have a minimum amount of work to not throw an exception?

See http://bugs.python.org/issue9207 - but yes, the problem is that
the VM is nuking our imported modules before all the processes are
shutdown.