Re: [Matplotlib-users] Intermittent Matplotlib crash on OS X

[Russell E. O. <ro...@ce...>]

In article <45D...@cs...>,
 Anand Patil <an...@so...> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Matplotlib occasionally crashes Python at the end of a long program on 
> my powerbook g4 running OS X 10.4. gdb output follows:
> 
> Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory.
> Reason: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at address: 0x0a68fe40
> 0x002eae50 in visit_decref (op=0x28a1cb0, data=0x0) at 
> /Users/ronald/Python/r25/Modules/gcmodule.c:270
> 270     /Users/ronald/Python/r25/Modules/gcmodule.c: No such file or 
> directory.
>         in /Users/ronald/Python/r25/Modules/gcmodule.c
> 
> or
> 
> Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory.
> Reason: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at address: 0x00000056
> 0x002eae50 in visit_decref (op=0x28a17e0, data=0x0) at 
> /Users/ronald/Python/r25/Modules/gcmodule.c:270
> 270     in /Users/ronald/Python/r25/Modules/gcmodule.c
> 
> It's always something like that, and it always happens after the little 
> Python icon starts bouncing around in the dock. I don't know anyone 
> named Ronald and no such directory exists on my machine.

What version of matplotlib, what version of Python and where did you 
them from from (build from source, some binary installer, fink...?)

-- Russell