The HDF5 file format is stable, so I think it's fair to say there's a 
behavioral problem of some kind, either a bug or some version mismatching 
shenanigans.

Could you please post the output of versioninfo(true)?

On Friday, March 7, 2014 12:43:08 PM UTC-6, ben wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> A couple of days ago, a module I have been working on for some time 
> started throwing segmentation faults frequently and at random. After a lot 
> of head-scratching, I found out that the HDF5 package was causing this.
>
> My module starts by loading (with HDF5) some data that I processed a month 
> or so ago and stored on my hard drive in native Julia format (with HDF5). 
> The files did not change but the package was updated.
>
> I am not saying that this is a bug in the HDF5 package: maybe the package 
> is not fully backward-compatible with old data, maybe I just need to 
> re-process and re-store the data. I don't have the time to investigate 
> right now so I am posting this hoping that it will save someone redundant 
> head-scratching :)
>
> Ben
>

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