[Numpy-discussion] glibc error

[David Cournapeau]

Gideon Simpson wrote:
> Rerunning the tests with verbosity, it dies at:
>
> test_single (test_linalg.TestSolve) ... ok
> Ticket #652 ... *** glibc detected *** python: free(): invalid next  
> size (fast): 0x0000000001e284e0 ***
>
> I'm using ATLAS 3.8.2 and lapack 3.2.
>   

Lapack 3.2 may be the problem. There have been interface changes in some
functions related to LU factorization in LAPACK 3.2 - I am not sure that
those are the ones used by eig, but since many people have run the test
suite with numpy 1.2.1 and atlas 3.8.2, I would look at that first.

cheers,

David