Re: [Visualpython-users] Install on Mandriva, crashes KDE...

[Jonathan B. <jbr...@ea...>]

It isn't the fact that VPython crashes on his machine that is
particularly interesting.  Its that the whole desktop crashes.  That
sounds like a general OpenGL/Xserver problem to me.

-Jonathan

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 16:24 -0800, Dethe Elza wrote:
> On 30-Nov-06, at 3:30 PM, Bruce Sherwood wrote:
> 
> > I don't understand the bit about moving site-packages from /usr/ 
> > local to
> > /usr/bin. That sounds like you compiled against a Python in /usr/local
> > but are trying to use the results with a different Python in /usr.  
> > Seems
> > like that ought to crash, as it indeed does.
> 
> Most python extensions are binary compatible across point releases,  
> as long as the pythons were compiled with the same basic options.  So  
> this does actually work, not universally, but with a lot of libraries.
> 
> --Dethe
> 
> >
> > Bruce Sherwood
> >
> > Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote:
> >
> >> Does running glxgears cause the same problem?  What does glxinfo  
> >> report?
> >>
> >> On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 22:51 +0000, chris wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> I've just loaded Vpython on Mandriva 2007 and it imports ok (from  
> >>> visual
> >>> import *) but upon typing
> >>> a = sphere(), the desktop crashes and I need to log in again...
> >>>
> >>> The install all went ok, but I'm a bit stumped as what to try first.
> >>>
> >>> I had to move the visual directory from /usr/local/lib/python2.4/ 
> >>> site-packages
> >>> to /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages but other than that  
> >>> everything proceeded
> >>> as normal.
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