[vtkusers] Problem building VTK 4.0 under Debian Linux

Charl P. Botha c.p.botha at its.tudelft.nl
Wed Jan 22 13:30:03 EST 2003


On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 21:17, Brian White wrote:
> from vtkpython import *
> 
> r = vtkPolyDataReader()
> r.SetFileName('/usr/local/VTKData/Data/bore.vtk')
> r.Update()
> 
> d = r.GetOutput()
> c = d.GetCellData()
> 
> Right when the GetCellData function is called is when it seg faults.  I 
> also tried teh GetPointData call just to see what happens and I saw the 
> same behavior.  I tried the same thing in C++ and everything seemed to 
> work fine.  At least, it didn't seg fault at that call.

If you run your python file with: vtkpython yourfile.py instead of just
"python", does it still segfault?  vtkpython is built during the VTK
build and should be with the other binaries.

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charl p. botha http://cpbotha.net/ http://visualisation.tudelft.nl/



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