Py2app application with matplotlib fails on OS X 10.6

I’m getting my Py2app build running and think I’ve worked around some issues, but another major one has come up. My application is being built on OS X 10.5.8, where matplotlib is, oviously, installed. On another 10.5.X machine without any of the app’s dependencies, my compiled app runs just fine. Today, I tried getting it running on a new Mac with Snow Leopard, 10.6, and get the following bus error.

From the crash report, it looks like these are relevant:

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 ??? 0000000000 0 + 0
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x91176aa8 _Unwind_GetLanguageSpecificData + 24
2 libstdc++.6.dylib 0x90057d86 __gxx_personality_v0 + 120

3 libgcc_s.1.dylib 0x03801476 _Unwind_Backtrace + 278
4 libgcc_s.1.dylib 0x03801890 _Unwind_Resume + 112
5 ft2font.so 0x038cd3b1 FT2Font::FT2Font(std::string) + 3737

6 ft2font.so 0x038cd4df ft2font_module::new_ft2font(Py::Tuple const&) + 291
7 ft2font.so 0x038d787f Py::ExtensionModule<ft2font_module>::invoke_method_varargs(std::string const&, Py::Tuple const&) + 261

8 ft2font.so 0x038df637 method_varargs_call_handler + 301

I’m not really sure where to go from here. I’ve read a few other things which hint at Snow Leopard being a bit of a headache: http://bit.ly/2Z2Cil

Has anyone run this setup before? Suggestions?

BZ

We saw the same problem with VisTrails (www.vistrails.org).

It seems that python.org’s python can’t build the fonts in ~/.matplotlib on snow leopard.

We noticed that importing matplotlib.axis using Apple’s python will do that.

So this is the work-around we found for vistrails (bundled with python.org 2.5)

In a terminal on snow leopard:

rm -rf ~/.matplotlib cd /Applications/Vistrails.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.5
$ DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/bin/python

import matplotlib.axis

Now running the app again works.

The DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH is necessary because of problems we saw with different versions of libgcc_s.1.dylib present in the system and the wrong one was being loaded.

I don’t think it’s a py2app bug because I can reproduce it by just running python.org’s python and importing matplotlib.axis.

I guess it is a bug in matplotlib.

– Emanuele.

···

On Nov 9, 2009, at 11:46 PM, Brian Zambrano wrote:

I’m getting my Py2app build running and think I’ve worked around some issues, but another major one has come up. My application is being built on OS X 10.5.8, where matplotlib is, oviously, installed. On another 10.5.X machine without any of the app’s dependencies, my compiled app runs just fine. Today, I tried getting it running on a new Mac with Snow Leopard, 10.6, and get the following bus error.

From the crash report, it looks like these are relevant:

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 ??? 0000000000 0 + 0
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x91176aa8 _Unwind_GetLanguageSpecificData + 24
2 libstdc++.6.dylib 0x90057d86 __gxx_personality_v0 + 120

3 libgcc_s.1.dylib 0x03801476 _Unwind_Backtrace + 278
4 libgcc_s.1.dylib 0x03801890 _Unwind_Resume + 112
5 ft2font.so 0x038cd3b1 FT2Font::FT2Font(std::string) + 3737

6 ft2font.so 0x038cd4df ft2font_module::new_ft2font(Py::Tuple const&) + 291
7 ft2font.so 0x038d787f Py::ExtensionModule<ft2font_module>::invoke_method_varargs(std::string const&, Py::Tuple const&) + 261

8 ft2font.so 0x038df637 method_varargs_call_handler + 301

I’m not really sure where to go from here. I’ve read a few other things which hint at Snow Leopard being a bit of a headache: http://bit.ly/2Z2Cil

Has anyone run this setup before? Suggestions?

BZ


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Following those steps, my app started just fine on Snow Leopard. Thank you Emanuele!

I would, however, like to understand this problem a bit more so I can fix the build. I’d like this app to run out of the box.

Looking at ft2font.so:

otool -L Resources/lib/python2.5/matplotlib/ft2font.so
Resources/lib/python2.5/matplotlib/ft2font.so:
@executable_path/…/Frameworks/libfreetype.6.dylib (compatibility version 10.0.0, current version 10.12.0)
/usr/lib/libz.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.2.3)
/usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 7.4.0)
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 111.1.3)
@executable_path/…/Frameworks/libgcc_s.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)

For matplotlib to load successfully, which libgcc should be loaded?

Thanks again,
BZ

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On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Emanuele Santos <emanuelesantos@…287…> wrote:

We saw the same problem with VisTrails (www.vistrails.org).

It seems that python.org’s python can’t build the fonts in ~/.matplotlib on snow leopard.

We noticed that importing matplotlib.axis using Apple’s python will do that.

So this is the work-around we found for vistrails (bundled with python.org 2.5)

In a terminal on snow leopard:

rm -rf ~/.matplotlib cd /Applications/Vistrails.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.5
$ DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/bin/python

import matplotlib.axis

Now running the app again works.

The DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH is necessary because of problems we saw with different versions of libgcc_s.1.dylib present in the system and the wrong one was being loaded.

I don’t think it’s a py2app bug because I can reproduce it by just running python.org’s python and importing matplotlib.axis.

I guess it is a bug in matplotlib.

– Emanuele.

On Nov 9, 2009, at 11:46 PM, Brian Zambrano wrote:

I’m getting my Py2app build running and think I’ve worked around some issues, but another major one has come up. My application is being built on OS X 10.5.8, where matplotlib is, oviously, installed. On another 10.5.X machine without any of the app’s dependencies, my compiled app runs just fine. Today, I tried getting it running on a new Mac with Snow Leopard, 10.6, and get the following bus error.

From the crash report, it looks like these are relevant:

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 ??? 0000000000 0 + 0
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x91176aa8 _Unwind_GetLanguageSpecificData + 24
2 libstdc++.6.dylib 0x90057d86 __gxx_personality_v0 + 120

3 libgcc_s.1.dylib 0x03801476 _Unwind_Backtrace + 278
4 libgcc_s.1.dylib 0x03801890 _Unwind_Resume + 112
5 ft2font.so 0x038cd3b1 FT2Font::FT2Font(std::string) + 3737

6 ft2font.so 0x038cd4df ft2font_module::new_ft2font(Py::Tuple const&) + 291
7 ft2font.so 0x038d787f Py::ExtensionModule<ft2font_module>::invoke_method_varargs(std::string const&, Py::Tuple const&) + 261

8 ft2font.so 0x038df637 method_varargs_call_handler + 301

I’m not really sure where to go from here. I’ve read a few other things which hint at Snow Leopard being a bit of a headache: http://bit.ly/2Z2Cil

Has anyone run this setup before? Suggestions?

BZ


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It should load /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib. The problem is that the binary package of matplotlib for mac is linked against /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib.

I tried using install_name_tool and change this on the bundle and it does the trick.

$ cd Resources/lib/python2.5

install_name_tool -change @executable_path/…/Frameworks/libgcc_s.1.dylib /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib ft2font.so

– Emanuele.

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On Nov 10, 2009, at 9:43 AM, Brian Zambrano wrote:

Following those steps, my app started just fine on Snow Leopard. Thank you Emanuele!

I would, however, like to understand this problem a bit more so I can fix the build. I’d like this app to run out of the box.

Looking at ft2font.so:

otool -L Resources/lib/python2.5/matplotlib/ft2font.so
Resources/lib/python2.5/matplotlib/ft2font.so:
@executable_path/…/Frameworks/libfreetype.6.dylib (compatibility version 10.0.0, current version 10.12.0)

    /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.2.3)
    /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 7.4.0)
    /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 111.1.3)

    @executable_path/../Frameworks/libgcc_s.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)

For matplotlib to load successfully, which libgcc should be loaded?

Thanks again,
BZ

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Emanuele Santos <emanuelesantos@…287…> wrote:

We saw the same problem with VisTrails (www.vistrails.org).

It seems that python.org’s python can’t build the fonts in ~/.matplotlib on snow leopard.

We noticed that importing matplotlib.axis using Apple’s python will do that.

So this is the work-around we found for vistrails (bundled with python.org 2.5)

In a terminal on snow leopard:

rm -rf ~/.matplotlib cd /Applications/Vistrails.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.5
$ DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/bin/python

import matplotlib.axis

Now running the app again works.

The DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH is necessary because of problems we saw with different versions of libgcc_s.1.dylib present in the system and the wrong one was being loaded.

I don’t think it’s a py2app bug because I can reproduce it by just running python.org’s python and importing matplotlib.axis.

I guess it is a bug in matplotlib.

– Emanuele.

On Nov 9, 2009, at 11:46 PM, Brian Zambrano wrote:

I’m getting my Py2app build running and think I’ve worked around some issues, but another major one has come up. My application is being built on OS X 10.5.8, where matplotlib is, oviously, installed. On another 10.5.X machine without any of the app’s dependencies, my compiled app runs just fine. Today, I tried getting it running on a new Mac with Snow Leopard, 10.6, and get the following bus error.

From the crash report, it looks like these are relevant:

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 ??? 0000000000 0 + 0
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x91176aa8 _Unwind_GetLanguageSpecificData + 24
2 libstdc++.6.dylib 0x90057d86 __gxx_personality_v0 + 120

3 libgcc_s.1.dylib 0x03801476 _Unwind_Backtrace + 278
4 libgcc_s.1.dylib 0x03801890 _Unwind_Resume + 112
5 ft2font.so 0x038cd3b1 FT2Font::FT2Font(std::string) + 3737

6 ft2font.so 0x038cd4df ft2font_module::new_ft2font(Py::Tuple const&) + 291
7 ft2font.so 0x038d787f Py::ExtensionModule<ft2font_module>::invoke_method_varargs(std::string const&, Py::Tuple const&) + 261

8 ft2font.so 0x038df637 method_varargs_call_handler + 301

I’m not really sure where to go from here. I’ve read a few other things which hint at Snow Leopard being a bit of a headache: http://bit.ly/2Z2Cil

Has anyone run this setup before? Suggestions?

BZ


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– Emanuele.

Emanuele Santos wrote:

It should load /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib. The problem is that the binary package of matplotlib for mac is linked against /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib.

ouch -- it shouldn't be. Did you build it yourself or is that the "official" one?

Also, it seems that Py2app really should include libs that are in /usr/local with the bundle, so that may be a py2app bug/feature.

Boy, this is a pain!

oh well,

-Chris

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Hi, Chris

I think it is the official one (0.98.5).
I didn't try the latest version but I can check if this is still true.

-- Emanuele.

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On Nov 10, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Christopher Barker wrote:

Emanuele Santos wrote:

It should load /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib. The problem is that the binary
package of matplotlib for mac is linked
against /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib.

ouch -- it shouldn't be. Did you build it yourself or is that the
"official" one?

Also, it seems that Py2app really should include libs that are in
/usr/local with the bundle, so that may be a py2app bug/feature.

Boy, this is a pain!

oh well,

-Chris

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-- Emanuele.

Could you please -- there were some bugs in linking on the OSX
binaries that were fixed between 0.98.5 and 0.99.1 so I'd like to
confirm that this was fixes as well

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On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Emanuele Santos <emanuelesantos@...287...> wrote:

Hi, Chris

I think it is the official one (0.98.5).
I didn't try the latest version but I can check if this is still true.

FWIW, I’m using the official 0.98.5.

Looking at the app bundle, all of the matplotlib .so files are linking against:

@executable_path/…/Frameworks/libgcc_s.1.dylib

except matplotlib/backends/_macosx.so which is linking against:

/usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib

So, I didn’t see any looking in /usr/local/lib.

BZ

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On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:57 AM, John Hunter <jdh2358@…287…> wrote:

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Emanuele Santos > > <emanuelesantos@…287…> wrote:

Hi, Chris

I think it is the official one (0.98.5).

I didn’t try the latest version but I can check if this is still true.

Could you please – there were some bugs in linking on the OSX

binaries that were fixed between 0.98.5 and 0.99.1 so I’d like to

confirm that this was fixes as well

I

Hi, Chris

I think it is the official one (0.98.5).
I didn’t try the latest version but I can check if this is still true.

Could you please – there were some bugs in linking on the OSX
binaries that were fixed between 0.98.5 and 0.99.1 so I’d like to
confirm that this was fixes as well

I just checked and it seems to be fixed in 0.99.1.

– Emanuele.

···

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:57 AM, John Hunter <jdh2358@…287…> wrote:

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Emanuele Santos > > <emanuelesantos@…287…> wrote:


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I just upgraded to 0.99.1 and it’s working perfectly now. I was previously hacking _png.so with install_name_tool, and that’s not necessary anymore as well.

Thank you to Emanuele and everyone else…much appreciated!

BZ

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On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Emanuele Santos <emanuelesantos@…287…> wrote:

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:57 AM, John Hunter <jdh2358@…287…> wrote:

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Emanuele Santos > > > <emanuelesantos@…287…> wrote:

Hi, Chris

I think it is the official one (0.98.5).
I didn’t try the latest version but I can check if this is still true.

Could you please – there were some bugs in linking on the OSX

binaries that were fixed between 0.98.5 and 0.99.1 so I’d like to
confirm that this was fixes as well

I just checked and it seems to be fixed in 0.99.1.

– Emanuele.