Re: seg faulting

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

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:02 PM, John Zelle <john.zelle-EcGxh6Kpiib2fBVCVOL8/[email protected]> 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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