How close is the release? Can I get a quick fix into the codes? mike jackson
On Oct 24, 2013, at 11:29 PM, Elena Pourmal <[email protected]> wrote: > I apologize for the error in my email below. It should read "PyTables > maintainers" instead of "H5Py maintainers" :-) > > Elena > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Elena Pourmal The HDF Group http://hdfgroup.org > 1800 So. Oak St., Suite 203, Champaign IL 61820 > 217.531.6112 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > > On Oct 24, 2013, at 10:11 PM, Elena Pourmal <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> All, >> >> We investigated the problem reported by the H5Py maintainers. The issue goes >> back to the 1.8.2 release when an assertion was introduce to catch errors in >> the file format. >> >> The >> https://github.com/PyTables/PyTables/raw/master/tables/tests/ex-noattr.h5 >> file is an example of such file - it contains a wrong version (1 instead of >> 2) of the array datatype in a header message. >> >> The symptom will be a failure of the HDF5 read utilities like h5dump or h5ls >> when HDF5 library is built in development mode or when >> --enable-strict-format-checks configure flag is used to configure the HDF5 >> library. >> >> h5dump (when used with the --enable-error-stack flag) shows the following >> errors at the bottom of the produced error stack: >> >> ./h5dump --enable-error-stack ex-noattr.h5 >> …… >> …. H5Odtype.c line 550 in H5O_dtype_decode_helper(): incorrect array >> datatype version >> major: Datatype >> minor: Wrong version number >> h5dump error: internal error (file h5dump.c:line 1615) >> >> The problem can be mitigated by repacking the file with h5repack. The tool >> has to be built using the HDF5 library in production mode (this is default >> for the official releases). The HDF5 library skips file format checks on >> read and writes the correct header to the new file. >> >> Elena >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Elena Pourmal The HDF Group http://hdfgroup.org >> 1800 So. Oak St., Suite 203, Champaign IL 61820 >> 217.531.6112 >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> >> >> >> >> On Oct 23, 2013, at 10:26 PM, Elena Pourmal <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Andrea, >>> >>> Thank you for report! We will take a look. >>> >>> Elena >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On Oct 23, 2013, at 10:03 PM, "Andrea Bedini" <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Elena, >>>> >>>> an user has reported some issues using PyTables with the rc1 and when I >>>> had a look I stumbled into this: >>>> >>>> $ ../hdf5-1.8.12-pre1/hdf5/bin/h5dump tables/tests/ex-noattr.h5 >>>> h5dump error: internal error (file h5dump.c:line 1471) >>>> >>>> ex-noattr.h5 is part of PyTables' test suite and it's available at the >>>> following link >>>> https://github.com/PyTables/PyTables/raw/master/tables/tests/ex-noattr.h5 >>>> >>>> The file works perfectly with 1.8.11. A backtrace (which I assume to be >>>> related to the issue but it might not be), is available here >>>> https://github.com/PyTables/PyTables/issues/290 >>>> >>>> Can anyone have a look? >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> Andrea >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 9 October 2013 12:15, Elena Pourmal <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Dear HDF5 users, >>>> >>>> A pre-release candidate of HDF5 1.8.12 is available for testing and can be >>>> downloaded from the following location: >>>> >>>> ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/pub/outgoing/hdf5/hdf5-1.8.12/pre1/ >>>> >>>> We will greatly appreciate if you test this pre-release on the platform(s) >>>> of your choice and report any problems found to this list as soon as >>>> possible. We have about three weeks to address the issues. >>>> >>>> The list of new features, bug fixes, and platforms tested by The HDF Group >>>> can be found in the >>>> ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/pub/outgoing/hdf5/hdf5-1.8.12/pre1/hdf5-1.8.12-pre1-RELEASE.txt >>>> file. >>>> >>>> The new release includes but is not limited to: >>>> >>>> - Support for Windows 8.1 >>>> - Support for OpenVMS on Itanium 64 >>>> - Fixes to gcc 4.8.x problems reported on FORUM >>>> - Enhancements to h5repack to support user-defined filters as described >>>> in section 6.2 of >>>> >>>> http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/Advanced/DynamicallyLoadedFilters/HDF5DynamicallyLoadedFilters.pdf >>>> - An option to specify default plugin directories at the HDF5 >>>> configuration time using >>>> --with-default-plugin=location (configure) >>>> -DH5_DEFAULT_PLUGINDIR:PATH=location (CMake) >>>> - New command-line options to h5dump >>>> + Print an object specified by its path >>>> + Exclude printing of attributes >>>> >>>> Happy testing and we look forward to hearing from you (hopefully no bugs >>>> :-)! >>>> >>>> Thank you! >>>> >>>> Elena >>>> _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.lists.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_lists.hdfgroup.org
