BUG: test_orc segfault when missing /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific

[WillAyd]

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Reproducible Example

python -m pytest pandas/tests/io/test_orc.py

Issue Description

Segfault occurs:

pandas/tests/io/test_orc.py::test_orc_reader_basic terminate called after throwing an instance of 'orc::TimezoneError'
  what():  Can't open /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific
Fatal Python error: Aborted

Current thread 0x00007eff1a912780 (most recent call first):

Appears to be looking for /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific on my machine. My timezone directory has an America subdirectory but within that nothing called Pacific

Expected Behavior

No segfault

A confirmed workaround is:

$ sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/zoneinfo/US
$ sudo ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific

Installed Versions

Details

INSTALLED VERSIONS

commit : 0cce0ed91cd23f17b412a0b345e6df79ed6b522b
python : 3.10.13.final.0
python-bits : 64
OS : Linux
OS-release : 6.5.0-13-generic
Version : #13-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Nov 3 12:16:05 UTC 2023
machine : x86_64
processor : x86_64
byteorder : little
LC_ALL : None
LANG : en_US.UTF-8
LOCALE : en_US.UTF-8

pandas : 2.2.0.dev0+801.g0cce0ed91c
numpy : 1.26.0
pytz : 2023.3.post1
dateutil : 2.8.2
setuptools : 68.2.2
pip : 23.3.1
Cython : 3.0.5
pytest : 7.4.3
hypothesis : 6.88.4
sphinx : 7.2.6
blosc : None
feather : None
xlsxwriter : 3.1.9
lxml.etree : 4.9.3
html5lib : 1.1
pymysql : 1.4.6
psycopg2 : 2.9.7
jinja2 : 3.1.2
IPython : 8.17.2
pandas_datareader : None
adbc-driver-postgresql: None
adbc-driver-sqlite : None
bs4 : 4.12.2
bottleneck : 1.3.7
dataframe-api-compat : None
fastparquet : 2023.10.1
fsspec : 2023.10.0
gcsfs : 2023.10.0
matplotlib : 3.7.3
numba : 0.58.1
numexpr : 2.8.7
odfpy : None
openpyxl : 3.1.2
pandas_gbq : None
pyarrow : 14.0.1
pyreadstat : 1.2.4
python-calamine : None
pyxlsb : 1.0.10
s3fs : 2023.10.0
scipy : 1.11.3
sqlalchemy : 2.0.23
tables : 3.9.1
tabulate : 0.9.0
xarray : 2023.10.1
xlrd : 2.0.1
zstandard : 0.22.0
tzdata : 2023.3
qtpy : None
pyqt5 : None

[mroeschke]

I suspect that there's a pure pyarrow reproducer as orc.py just wraps pyarrow.orc

[WillAyd]

Ah OK cool. I didn't pull a core dump but this does show up in the Python layer

pandas/tests/io/test_orc.py::test_orc_reader_basic terminate called after throwing an instance of 'orc::TimezoneError'
  what():  Can't open /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific
Fatal Python error: Aborted

Current thread 0x00007eff1a912780 (most recent call first):
  File "/home/willayd/mambaforge/envs/pandas-dev/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pyarrow/orc.py", line 187 in read
  File "/home/willayd/mambaforge/envs/pandas-dev/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pyarrow/orc.py", line 308 in read_table
  File "/home/willayd/clones/pandas/pandas/io/orc.py", line 117 in read_orc
  File "/home/willayd/clones/pandas/pandas/tests/io/test_orc.py", line 93 in test_orc_reader_basic

[phofl]

Closing here, this seems to be an arrow only thing