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Fixed!
I got to solve removing the nvidia-bumblebee package.

Bruce Sherwood, is right ... "components of the NVIDIA driver environment"
may cause this problem!

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>    3. segfault on ubuntu (Daniel Cardenas)
>    4. segfault in vpython (Daniel Cardenas)
>    5. Re: seg faulting (Guy K. Kloss)
>    6. Re: seg faulting (Bruce Sherwood)
>    7. Re: seg faulting (Guy K. Kloss)
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> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:58:35 -0600
> From: Bruce Sherwood <Bru...@nc...>
> Subject: Re: [Visualpython-users] seg faulting
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> I find that several different VPythons on my seldom-used 64-bit Ubuntu
> machine have stopped working (for Python 2.7, 3.1, 3.2). There is a
> hint that maybe an automated update to libboost killed them.
>
> Bruce Sherwood
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> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:02 PM, John Zelle <joh...@wa...>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am talso rying to run Vpython on a 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 and having this
> > problem. I don't think it's the new NVIDIA driver per se causing the
> issue.
> > What I have discovered is that python-visual works fine on a clean
> install
> > (including updates). However, as I install other packages, the visual
> module
> > eventually breaks. This happens during a lab install that includes lots
> of
> > additional packages that I install en masse. I started installing
> packages
> > one-by-one and testing after each install. I got about 1/2 way through
> and
> > had installed everything that I thought could possibly be related;
> vpython
> > still worked. Then I got impatient and installed all the rest.
> Naturally, it
> > broke again. It seems to me some package is installing a tweaked version
> of
> > a library (perhaps something in libboost???) that kills vpython.
> >
> > I will have a lab assistant again starting next week, and I am going to
> have
> > him go through package by package to see if we can find what's breaking
> the
> > python-visual module.
> >
> > --John
> >
> > John Zelle, PhD
> > Professor of Computer Science
> > Wartburg College
>
>
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> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 21:35:21 -0600
> From: Bruce Sherwood <Bru...@nc...>
> Subject: Re: [Visualpython-users] seg faulting
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> Fixed. When I tried to run, I was told that a libboost library was
> missing. I made sure that there was a complete set of development
> libraries for libboost python, signals, and thread, rebuilt. When I
> ran this rebuilt VPython, I was told that there was a mismatch between
> components of the NVIDIA driver environment. I looked up that error
> message on the web and followed instructions to purge NVIDIA files and
> reinstall, then reboot. Now VPython works.
>
> All of this presumably is due to the updates that Ubuntu continually
> wants to do, which have the effect of causing various kinds of
> failures. It seems like you still have to be very expert with
> computers to be able to use Ubuntu, and you need to know how to search
> the internet to find out what arcane procedure is needed to be able to
> continue using the system. Ugh.
>
> Bruce Sherwood
>
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Bruce Sherwood <Bru...@nc...>
> wrote:
> > I find that several different VPythons on my seldom-used 64-bit Ubuntu
> > machine have stopped working (for Python 2.7, 3.1, 3.2). There is a
> > hint that maybe an automated update to libboost killed them.
> >
> > Bruce Sherwood
>
>
>
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> Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 15:11:15 -0700
> From: Daniel Cardenas <dan...@gm...>
> Subject: [Visualpython-users] segfault on ubuntu
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> I tried sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia-current nvidia-settings and
> reboot but this didn't work.
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> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
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> I tried sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia-current nvidia-settings
> and reboot but I still have the issue.
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> Suggestions?
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> Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 10:21:16 +1200
> From: "Guy K. Kloss" <guy...@au...>
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> On 01/09/12 15:35, Bruce Sherwood wrote:
> > Fixed. When I tried to run, I was told that a libboost library was
> > missing. I made sure that there was a complete set of development
> > libraries for libboost python, signals, and thread, rebuilt. When I
> > ran this rebuilt VPython, I was told that there was a mismatch between
> > components of the NVIDIA driver environment. I looked up that error
> > message on the web and followed instructions to purge NVIDIA files and
> > reinstall, then reboot. Now VPython works.
>
> OK, did anybody actually make the effort and report those bugs/fixes
> upstream to the Ubuntu team [1] or even better the Debian team [2]?
> Without that, I doubt that there'll ever be a "stable" situation where
> these things can be taken care of by the distributors, which won't help
> a wide spread use or the reputation of VPython.
>
> Particularly a report on how to fix it would likely make it quickly into
> the releases.
>
> Guy
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/
> [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=python-visual
>
> --
> Guy K. Kloss
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> Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 18:07:07 -0600
> From: Bruce Sherwood <Bru...@nc...>
> Subject: Re: [Visualpython-users] seg faulting
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> I have little experience with Linux, so I don't feel competent to make
> a report. Nor do I know for sure that it was an automatic update of
> the Boost libraries that was at fault. It would be interesting to know
> whether someone else who has had problems was able to fix things in
> the same way that worked for me.
>
> Bruce Sherwood
>
> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Guy K. Kloss <guy...@au...> wrote:
> > On 01/09/12 15:35, Bruce Sherwood wrote:
> >> Fixed. When I tried to run, I was told that a libboost library was
> >> missing. I made sure that there was a complete set of development
> >> libraries for libboost python, signals, and thread, rebuilt. When I
> >> ran this rebuilt VPython, I was told that there was a mismatch between
> >> components of the NVIDIA driver environment. I looked up that error
> >> message on the web and followed instructions to purge NVIDIA files and
> >> reinstall, then reboot. Now VPython works.
> >
> > OK, did anybody actually make the effort and report those bugs/fixes
> > upstream to the Ubuntu team [1] or even better the Debian team [2]?
> > Without that, I doubt that there'll ever be a "stable" situation where
> > these things can be taken care of by the distributors, which won't help
> > a wide spread use or the reputation of VPython.
> >
> > Particularly a report on how to fix it would likely make it quickly into
> > the releases.
> >
> > Guy
> >
> > [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/
> > [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=python-visual
> >
> > --
> > Guy K. Kloss
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> Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 13:15:45 +1200
> From: "Guy K. Kloss" <guy...@au...>
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> On 03/09/12 12:07, Bruce Sherwood wrote:
> > I have little experience with Linux, so I don't feel competent to make
> > a report. Nor do I know for sure that it was an automatic update of
> > the Boost libraries that was at fault. It would be interesting to know
> > whether someone else who has had problems was able to fix things in
> > the same way that worked for me.
>
> Well, that is information that might help the maintainer already, and it
> may prompt others to contribute more (or try themselves to narrow down
> the problem).
>
> It's just that if nobody speaks up, problems like these will remain.
>
> Guy
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