mayavi segfaults on startup

[Francis Russell]

Binary package hint: mayavi

I am using Ubuntu 9.04, i386. Mayavi package version 1.5-5. Upon attempting to start mayavi with no command line options, mayavi segfaults. I've also observed this on a 64-bit installation as well. I've attached a gdb backtrace which indicates the problem might be with the Tk libaries.

[Daniel Leidert (dleidert-deactivatedaccount)]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/blt/+bug/359857

[Daniel Leidert (dleidert-deactivatedaccount)]

(at least I guess so based on the backtrace)

[Francis Russell (francis-russell)]

Is anyone interested at looking at this? The segfault is most certainly a high importance bug and makes this package unusable. I'm having to resort to using mayavi2 which is not nearly as usable. I also note that Debian mayavi works fine, which adds a basis for comparison.

[Andrea Colangelo (warp10)]

Francis, thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.
Mayavi is quite old, discontinued and not maintained anymore upstream. What's your problem with mayavi2?