Re: [Matplotlib-users] core dumped after importing matplotlib on SunOS

[Michael B. <mb...@jp...>]

Hi Olive,

I've had similar problems on both Solaris 8 and 9.  By running python 
under truss:

   truss python

I saw that the "illegal instruction" and core dump was happening in the 
freetype libraries.  I had built freetype 2.1.9 myself.  When I deleted my 
own libfreetype.* and instead used the prebuilt versions 
/usr/sfw/lib/libfreetype.* my crashes went away.

(Note that /usr/sfw/lib is the Solaris 9 location.  I'm not sure if it's 
the Solaris 8 location or not).

I had built libfreetype.6.3.7 (freetype 2.1.9) and /usr/sfw/lib contained 
the earlier version libfreetype.6.3.1 . I don't whether this is a 
Solaris-only bug in later versions of freetype, or if the /usr/sfw/lib 
versions were built a different way than I built mine.

Anyway, that's how I solved the problem.

I would suggest that you try:

(1)  Finding the Sun-supplied libfreetype.so binaries and using those, or
(2)  building the version of libfreetype that produces libfreetype.6.3.1.

Please let me know how you solve the problem.

Good luck!

--Michael Brady