In the python bindings, if you call close() it will close the connection and release the handle, but it doesn't clear the python reference to the C object - self._o. So later in garbage colection __del__ runs and tries to free the already free'd object Daniel diff -r a76dc8c27d72 python/generator.py --- a/python/generator.py Tue Mar 31 12:36:02 2009 +0100 +++ b/python/generator.py Tue Mar 31 13:09:38 2009 +0100 @@ -1072,6 +1072,9 @@ def buildWrappers(): n = n + 1 classes.write(")\n"); + if name == "virConnectClose": + classes.write(" self._o = None\n") + # For functions returning object types: if ret[0] != "void": if classes_type.has_key(ret[0]): -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|