On 05/08/2011 11:42 AM, Kaushik Kalyanaraman wrote: > Hello Eric, > > Thanks for your reply and suggestions! > >> Do you see the problem with any plot at all? E.g., > <snip> >> Can you eliminate all traces of EPD, and then just cleanly install one >> version, and see if the problem still appears? > > I cleanly installed EPD. Now, with only a single version (EPD 7.0-2, Python > 2.7.1), I find that, interestingly, > > a) In the 32-bit version (both when independent of and concurrent with 64-bit > EPD), simply calling plot() crashes Python, both in bash and IPython shells. > b) In the 64-bit version, plot() goes through and creates the correct plot > window but savefig() causes a crash when attempting to save in any format > (pdf, ps, svg, png). > > As in my original mail the error messages echoed to terminal are "Abort trap" > and "Bus error" for 64-bit and 32-bit versions, respectively. > > Thus, I wish to believe that there is some bug in matplotlib which is > possibly not local to savefig() alone (at least for the 32-bit version). In > this regard, I wish to request you as well as list members to advise me as to > whether I should use version 1.0.0 ? If so, should I build from source or can > I simply use the disk image file (and have it easy!) if I wish to replace the > EPD bundled matplotlib ? >
No, I don't think this is a bug in matplotlib; there are many mpl users, and at least to some extent some devs, who use Macs, so if this were a general bug in 1.0.1 it would have turned up long ago. Similarly, I doubt it is the case that EPD is simply broken. I would be surprised if Enthought did not test EPD versions prior to release! Most likely there is something out of the ordinary about your particular system that is causing the problem; there is still a version conflict or corrupted file somewhere. Did you try saving the code snippet in my last message to a file, and running it? The point of it was to eliminate the use of an interactive backend. I don't have any more ideas; maybe someone else can suggest the next troubleshooting steps. Eric > Thanks and Regards, > Kaushik > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software > The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network > management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial > acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
