I think I was able to get as far as possible:
I changed the _queue_management_worker method in my changed ProcessPoolExecutor module such that the exit code of the failed process is printed:
def _queue_management_worker(executor_reference,
processes,
pending_work_items,
work_ids_queue,
call_queue,
result_queue):
"""Manages the communication between this process and the worker processes.
...
"""
executor = None
def shutting_down():
return _shutdown or executor is None or executor._shutdown_thread
def shutdown_worker():
...
reader = result_queue._reader
while True:
_add_call_item_to_queue(pending_work_items,
work_ids_queue,
call_queue)
sentinels = [p.sentinel for p in processes.values()]
assert sentinels
ready = wait([reader] + sentinels)
if reader in ready:
result_item = reader.recv()
else:
# BLOCK INSERTED FOR DIAGNOSIS ONLY ---------
vals = list(processes.values())
for s in ready:
j = sentinels.index(s)
print("is_alive()", vals[j].is_alive())
print("exitcode", vals[j].exitcode)
# -------------------------------------------
# Mark the process pool broken so that submits fail right now.
executor = executor_reference()
if executor is not None:
executor._broken = True
executor._shutdown_thread = True
executor = None
# All futures in flight must be marked failed
for work_id, work_item in pending_work_items.items():
work_item.future.set_exception(
BrokenProcessPool(
"A process in the process pool was "
"terminated abruptly while the future was "
"running or pending."
))
# Delete references to object. See issue16284
del work_item
pending_work_items.clear()
# Terminate remaining workers forcibly: the queues or their
# locks may be in a dirty state and block forever.
for p in processes.values():
p.terminate()
shutdown_worker()
return
...
Afterwards I looked up the meaning of the exit code:
from multiprocessing.process import _exitcode_to_name
print(_exitcode_to_name[my_exit_code])
whereby my_exit_code is the exit code that was printed in the block I inserted to the _queue_management_worker. In my case the code was -11, which means that I ran into a segmentation fault. Finding the reason for this issue will be a huge task but goes beyond the scope of this question.