I'm using Ubuntu 17.10 and this still seems to be an issue. vitables
2.1-1 included with Ubuntu 17.10 is incompatible with the pytables
3.3.0.
Specifically, trying to open any file will result in a call to
tables.isHDF5File. See this file here.
/usr/share/vitables/vitables/h5db/dbsTreeModel.py
Recently, xserver-xorg-video-intel has been updated to xserver-xorg-
video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20160325-1ubuntu1.1 to fix
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-
intel/+bug/1568604. However, this update doesn't fix the bug discussed
here for me.
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS (xenial)
