Re: [Jython-dev] Help with http://bugs.jython.org/issue1262

[Leo S. M. <leo...@gm...>]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Philip Jenvey <pj...@un...> wrote:
>
> On Feb 17, 2009, at 7:05 PM, Leo Soto M. wrote:
>
>> I was looking at some weird problem people reported when using
>> Django/Jython. Basically, when trying to run the test server after
>> project creation, it crashed with an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundException
>> while reading the setting$py.class file. Not quite a good first
>> experience with Jython :(
>>
>> Problem is, by looking at the snapshot of a problematic django project
>> (on <http://bugs.jython.org/file615/testapp.zip>) I confirmed that the
>> generated class file is wrong, but wasn't able to reproduce its
>> creation. As Javap doesn't disassemble it (because it is invalid,
>> doh), and my class-file-format-foo is not good enough to get any clue,
>> I'm out of ideas on how to discover the root of the problem.
>>
>> Anyway, there is a interesting bug here which, as I pointed out on the
>> issue, dates to at least 4 months back. Any help with it will be
>> appreciated.
>
> I think all you can do here is get the failure reproduced. The versions may
> definitely matter, all I can tell is one person reproduced it with Django
> alpha 2 on an unknown release of Jython last August.

As I said on the bug page, there are cases reported on October and
also the last week by independent people. I'll continue to try to
reproduce the problem, as it seems a serious one.

-- 
Leo Soto M.
http://blog.leosoto.com