is this a bug? erratic segfaults (II)

[Ramon Diaz-Uriarte]

More of the same saga. I just logged into that machine, and things get
funny: I get a succession of different failures and some successes.
I've edited the output somewhat for clarity, but this is the exact
succession of events after logging into the machine.

$ bzr status
Segmentation fault

$ bzr version
Bazaar (bzr) 0.13.0

$ bzr status
modified:
  www/tests.html

$ bzr statust
Segmentation fault

$ bzr status
bzr: ERROR: exceptions.NameError: global name 'hotshot' is not defined

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line
626, in run_bzr_catch_errors
    return run_bzr(argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line
588, in run_bzr
    ret = run(*run_argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line
276, in run_argv_aliases
    args, opts = parse_args(self, argv, alias_argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line
372, in parse_args
    parser = option.get_optparser(command.options())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/option.py", line 207,
in get_optparser
    parser = OptionParser()
  File "optparse.py", line 1117, in __init__
    formatter = IndentedHelpFormatter()
  File "optparse.py", line 328, in __init__
    HelpFormatter.__init__(
  File "optparse.py", line 184, in __init__
    except (KeyError, ValueError):
NameError: global name 'hotshot' is not defined

bzr 0.13.0 on python 2.4.4.final.0 (linux2)
arguments: ['/usr/bin/bzr', 'status']

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$ bzr status
Segmentation fault

$ bzr status
Segmentation fault

$ bzr status
  File "/usr/bin/bzr", line 38
    if not os.environ.has_key(REINVOKE):
                                       ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

$ bzr
Bazaar (bzr) 0.13.0
Using python interpreter: /usr/bin/python

$ bzr status
modified:
  www/tests.html

$ bzr status
Segmentation fault

$ bzr status
modified:
  www/tests.html
Fatal Python error: Inconsistent interned string state.
Aborted

$ bzr status
modified:
  www/tests.html


I'll try upgrading python to the latest one in debian, and
reinstalling bzr, but even if that fixes it, I guess this should not
happen?


Best,

R.
-- 
Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Statistical Computing Team
Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme
Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO)
http://ligarto.org/rdiaz