[gpaw-users] Installation problem

[Roger Mason]

Hi Ask,

Ask Hjorth Larsen <asklarsen at gmail.com> writes:

> Well, this is strange....  ASE is pure python, so it should not be
> possible to cause a segfault only from ASE.  It must be either in an
> external library like NumPy, or in the Python distribution.  Most
> likely the former, particularly the installation is not provided by
> the BSD distribution.
>
> Will numpy work?  Can you import ASE without trouble?  It appears to
> crash quickly, before doing much of anything.

In order to debug this I copied statements from test/eos.py into the
python REPL and executed them.

python crashes at this statement:

b = bulk('Al', 'fcc', a=4.0, orthorhombic=True)

I'm rebuilding the FreeBSD packages from which I install to this machine
just in case numpy and python have (somehow) become unsynchronised (I
don't know if that is possible or it it matters but I'm clutching at
straws).

Best wishes,
Roger