Bug#790812: FTBFS: test_multiprocess: OSError: [Errno 38] Function not implemented

[Martin Michlmayr]

Package: numexpr
Version: 2.4-1
Severity: serious

numexpr fails to build in unstable:

> sbuild (Debian sbuild) 0.64.1 (13 Oct 2013) on m400-c4n1.hlinux.usa.hp.com
...
> test_zerodim1d (__main__.test_zerodim) ... ok
> test_zerodim3d (__main__.test_zerodim) ... ok
> test_multiprocess (__main__.test_subprocess) ... ERROR
> test_thread (__main__.test_threading) ... ok
> 
> ======================================================================
> ERROR: test_multiprocess (__main__.test_subprocess)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "numexpr/tests/test_numexpr.py", line 815, in test_multiprocess
>     qout = mp.Queue()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/__init__.py", line 218, in Queue
>     return Queue(maxsize)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/queues.py", line 63, in __init__
>     self._rlock = Lock()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/synchronize.py", line 147, in __init__
>     SemLock.__init__(self, SEMAPHORE, 1, 1)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/synchronize.py", line 75, in __init__
>     sl = self._semlock = _multiprocessing.SemLock(kind, value, maxvalue)
> OSError: [Errno 38] Function not implemented

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Martin Michlmayr
Linux for HP Helion OpenStack, Hewlett-Packard