[SciPy-Dev] lfilter segfault with initial condition on windows

[josef.pktd at gmail.com]

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Oscar Benjamin
<oscar.bristol at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It seems this was just a problem with my installation somehow. Before
> sending the previous email I had uninstalled and reinstalled both numpy
> and scipy and the problem remained. I've just got back from lunch and
> rebooted, uninstalled and reinstalled both again (using the same
> installer files) and the problem seems now to be fixed. I'm not really
> sure what happened there.

good to hear,
It is easy to get some left-over files from a previous install that
create problems.

Josef

>
> Thanks for your help,
> Oscar.
>
> josef.pktd at gmail.com wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Oscar Benjamin
>> <oscar.bristol at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've just discovered that a program of mine (which works on my ubuntu
>>> karmic machine at home) segfaults on win32 at work.
>>>
>>> I've made a short test case:
>>>
>>>  > #!/usr/bin/env python
>>>  >
>>>  > from numpy import ones
>>>  > from scipy.signal import lfilter
>>>  >
>>>  > x = ones(100)
>>>  > a = ones(5)
>>>  > b = ones(5)
>>>  > zi = ones(4)
>>>  > #xf = lfilter(b, a, x)
>>>  > xf, zf = lfilter(b, a, x, zi=zi)
>>>
>>> Swap the comment on the last two lines to prevent segfault. On my
>>> machine I get the "Unhandled Exception in python.exe" message box (I
>>> assume this is a segfault).
>>> versions:
>>> python 2.6.4
>>> numpy 1.3.0
>>> scipy 0.7.1
>>>
>>> I can see a few tickets about problems with memory leaks and segfaults
>>> with lfilter but they seem to be old and marked as closed. Should I
>>> expect the above to work? Is this a known issue that's already fixed?
>>>
>>
>> I don't have a segfault or any other problem with your script on
>> WindowsXP with python 2.5.2. numpy 1.4.0 and a scipy from a while ago.
>>
>>>>> numpy.version.version
>>>>>
>> '1.4.0'
>>
>>>>> scipy.version.version
>>>>>
>> '0.8.0.dev6156'
>>
>> I also think I never had a segfault before with lfilter, and I have
>> been using it for quite some time.
>> (The only segfault I have seen is when scipy is not binary compatible
>> with numpy 1.4.0)
>>
>> Are your numpy and scipy from the official installers?
>>
>> I don't know if there were any problems with python 2.6 before.
>>
>> Josef
>>
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Oscar.
>>>
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