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Subject: script exits prematurely with no stderr output, but with system errors
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I have a script that I run a lot - at least 10 time every day. Usually
it works fine. But sometime it just stops running with nothing output
to stdout or stderr. I've been trying to debug this for a while, and
today I looked in the system logs and saw this:

abrt: detected unhandled Python exception in
'/home/prod_user/python/make_workitem_list.py'
abrtd: Directory 'pyhook-2016-03-19-22:20:43-26461' creation detected
abrt-server[3688]: Saved Python crash dump of pid 26461 to
/var/spool/abrt/pyhook-2016-03-19-22:20:43-26461
abrtd: Executable '/home/prod_user/python/make_workitem_list.py'
doesn't belong to any package and ProcessUnpackaged is set to 'no'
abrtd: 'post-create' on
'/var/spool/abrt/pyhook-2016-03-19-22:20:43-26461' exited with 1
abrtd: Deleting problem directory
'/var/spool/abrt/pyhook-2016-03-19-22:20:43-26461'
abrtd: make_workitem_list: page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x20
abrtd: Pid: 31870, comm: make_workitem_list Not tainted
2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.x86_64 #1

I have never seen anything like this before. Usually, if there is an
unhandled exception something is dumped to stderr. Anyone have any
idea what is going on? How can I get it to not delete this crash dump
it mentioned? I guess I can put a big exception handler around the
enter script with a traceback.

This is on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.7 (Santiago).