Re: [Visualpython-users] Python-visual in latest Ubuntu

[Andrew M. <agm...@gm...>]

Hi All,

I'm been running vpython in Ubuntu 11.04 and then Ubuntu 11.10. I did not
encounter any problems with the transition. There is a caveat though: when
I installed CUDA on my system and updated my NVIDIA drivers, vpython simply
stopped working. I simply could not stop it from segfaulting when any
vpython object was declared. The only solution was to entirely reformat and
reinstall Ubuntu and not install CUDA.

My guess is that something evil is happening with the gpu drivers for the
64 bit version. Try some older drivers perhaps?

Andy

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Bruce Sherwood <Bru...@nc...>wrote:

> I too have seen the following problem on the latest Ubuntu but thought
> it must be a driver problem, and I haven't had the time to look more
> deeply. The bug report mentioned here implies that the problem is with
> visual. Has someone on this list successfully run python-visual on the
> latest version of Ubuntu? If so, what did you have to do? Thanks.
>
> Bruce Sherwood
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Tuomas Airaksinen <tuo...@jy...>
> Date: Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 2:27 AM
> Subject: Python-visual in ubuntu etc.
>
> Hi,
>
> Just a short question: Are you aware of any way to get python-visual
> work in Ubuntu
> Linux environment. I am using 64 bit Ubuntu 11.10, but I tried with
> virtual machine (virtualbox) 32 bit
> 11.10 and 10.04 versions, and none of them were working.
>
> There are bug reports out there
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-visual/+bug/787932
>
> but no fix/workaround seem to be around.
>
> I used to find this module very useful but now it just segfaults after
> any command like
> sphere().
>
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Andrew McCormick