[SciPy-dev] Scipy 0.4.8 segfaults on 64bit Linux (Ubuntu).

[Robert Kern]

Rudolph van der Merwe wrote:
> I compiled and installed the latest Numpy 0.9.6 and Scipy 0.4.8
> without any trouble on a 64bit Ubuntu Linux server (AMD Opteron). When
> I run the Scipy unit tests though, it crashes with the following error
> message:
> 
>>>>scipy.test(1)

> ..FFFFFSegmentation fault
> 
> What could possibly be the reason for the Segmentation Fault?

Could you please rerun the tests with a higher verbosity? Like scipy.test(10)?
That will make the test runner print out the name of the test it is trying
before it runs the test and segfaults.

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