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mesa package

  1. Bug #259219
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 259219

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Julian Taylor (jtaylor) wrote : Re: Broken TLS support in libGL.so

this problem also affects ipython combined with matplotlib.
LD_PRELOAD also solves it in that case.

pasting some information from:
duplicate bug 732809
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612529
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=617432

>ipython
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.image as mpimg
img=mpimg.imread('/usr/share/gdm/themes/debian-greeter/debian.png')
imgplot=plt.imshow(img)
plt.show()

effect:
segfault