Intermittent Matplotlib crash on OS X

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Anand Patil <anand@...1465...> wrote:

Hi all,

Matplotlib occasionally crashes Python at the end of a long program on
my powerbook g4 running OS X 10.4. gdb output follows:

Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory.
Reason: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at address: 0x0a68fe40
0x002eae50 in visit_decref (op=0x28a1cb0, data=0x0) at
/Users/ronald/Python/r25/Modules/gcmodule.c:270
270 /Users/ronald/Python/r25/Modules/gcmodule.c: No such file or
directory.
        in /Users/ronald/Python/r25/Modules/gcmodule.c

or

Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory.
Reason: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at address: 0x00000056
0x002eae50 in visit_decref (op=0x28a17e0, data=0x0) at
/Users/ronald/Python/r25/Modules/gcmodule.c:270
270 in /Users/ronald/Python/r25/Modules/gcmodule.c

It's always something like that, and it always happens after the little
Python icon starts bouncing around in the dock. I don't know anyone
named Ronald and no such directory exists on my machine.

What version of matplotlib, what version of Python and where did you
them from from (build from source, some binary installer, fink...?)

-- Russell