[Python-apps-team] Bug#478844: Bug#478844: mayavi2: segfaults or corrupts memory after some operations

[Prabhu Ramachandran]

Francesco Poli wrote:
> On Thu, 1 May 2008 17:15:38 +0200 Francesco Poli wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 1 May 2008 20:00:18 +0530 Varun Hiremath wrote:
> [...]
>>>> Boom!  Memory corruption!
>>> Strange, I am not able to reproduce this bug also on amd64 machine.
>> You lucky man!  ;-)
>>
>>> I followed the same steps and I could copy/paste without any errors. If
>>> you don't believe me please see this screenshot:
>>> http://people.debian.org/~varun/misc/mayavi2_amd64.png
>> I believe you!  :)
> 
> Little update: while doing other tests (that resulted in another bug
> report #478880...), I could successfully copy and paste the data source
> item.  Well, I didn't follow the same exact sequence of operations, as
> described in the present bug report, but anyway, I could perform the
> operation that previously led to a segfault or a memory corruption
> issue.

Your transparency issue is a bug in the Intel 965GM graphics card, which 
I suspect you have.  See this thread:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.enthought.devel/13992/focus=14118

I think I've fixed the plot3d reader crash.  I'll mail you about that 
shortly.

cheers,
prabhu