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["Johannes Ring" <johannr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

many of the DOLFIN demos now failed with the following error:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
  what():  *** Error: Unable to write objects of type Function to XML files.

See e.g.
http://fenics.org:8080/builders/dolfin-intrepid-amd64/builds/35/steps/dolfin%20check/logs/stdio
and
http://fenics.org:8080/builders/dolfin-intrepid-amd64/builds/35/steps/dolfin%20check/logs/demo.log
for details.

I also have a problem when running the tests on the Windows buildslave.
The problem is that when a test/demo fails, e.g. with a segmentation
fault, a window pops up saying that there was a runtime error and then I
have to click on 'OK' to continue. Since no one will click on 'OK' on the
buildslave it will simply wait until it times out. Any suggestions on how
to avoid this without disabling the tests with this behavior? Are there
any ways to trap such errors in Python?

Johannes