[Bf-committers] CVS Python assert failure on shutdown?

[Ken Hughes]

Stephen Swaney wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 03:17:34PM -0600, Early Ehlinger wrote:
>> If I do a build in "Blender Debug" mode using MSVC 7.1, launch Blender, 
>> and hit Ctrl+Q, then enter, I get the following assertion failure. 
>>
>> This is using a freshly downloaded copy of CVS sources, no patches, 
>> Python 2.5 installed.
>>
>> ---------------------------
>> Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
>> ---------------------------
>> Assertion failed!
>>
>> Program: ...
>> File: ..\Modules\gcmodule.c
>> Line: 276
>>
>> Expression: gc->gc.gc_refs != 0
> 
> This msg is coming from inside the Python source.
> Judging from the comments in the code there, it
> looks like the garbage collector is bailing when
> asked to delete an already deleted object.
> 
> My guess is we have a bad refcount (missing incref?),
> probably due to the recent code cleanup.
> 
> This behaviour does not show up here on loonix, so
> finding the problem will be interesting.

I built with a debug libpython2.5.a and I get the assert error.  I'm 
going to try isolating it in CVS to see when it started happening.

Ken