Comment 8 for bug 134277

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Mark Poolman (mgpoolman) wrote : Some progress - Re: [Bug 134277] Error in linalg.svd for large matrix

The cause seems almost certainly to be in the atlas libs rather than
scipy per se: Scipy will load the atlas versions of the lapack/blas libs
if available, but if not falls back to lapack3/refblas3.

Warty has atlas 3.6.0-13, and does not have the problem, dapper has
atlas 3.6.0.20 and does. The problem can be made come and go simply by
installing/removing atlas, which does affect any other packages. This
holds true for i686 and x86_64.

Mark