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

[Oscar Benjamin]

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.

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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