[vtkusers] Fatal Python error: PyThreadState_Get: no current thread

[Isaiah Norton]

You could debug with vmmap, to see which shared libraries are loaded in the
process.
Or start under lldb and look at output of `image list` when it aborts.

Isaiah

On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Jayson Kempinger <jkempinger at decisionvis.com
> wrote:

> Hi, I’m trying to install VTK on an iMac running 10.12.  I’m using python
> 3.5.2, compiled from source, and am compiling VTK-7.1.1 from source.
>
> When I run python3 (with -v and -d) and try to import vtk python crashes
> with the following error:
>
> >>> import vtk
> # /Users/username/build/lib/python3.5/site-packages/vtk/__
> pycache__/__init__.cpython-35.pyc matches /Users/username/build/lib/
> python3.5/site-packages/vtk/__init__.py
> # code object from '/Users/username/build/lib/
> python3.5/site-packages/vtk/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-35.pyc'
> # /Users/username/build/lib/python3.5/__pycache__/__future__.cpython-35.pyc
> matches /Users/username/build/lib/python3.5/__future__.py
> # code object from '/Users/username/build/lib/python3.5/__pycache__/__
> future__.cpython-35.pyc'
> import '__future__' # <_frozen_importlib_external.SourceFileLoader object
> at 0x1073032e8>
> # /Users/username/build/lib/python3.5/site-packages/vtk/__
> pycache__/vtkCommonCore.cpython-35.pyc matches /Users/username/build/lib/
> python3.5/site-packages/vtk/vtkCommonCore.py
> # code object from '/Users/username/build/lib/
> python3.5/site-packages/vtk/__pycache__/vtkCommonCore.cpython-35.pyc'
> Fatal Python error: PyThreadState_Get: no current thread
> zsh: abort      python3 -v -d
>
> From what I’ve read online it sounds like this is due to a python
> mismatch, i.e. building VTK against a different python version than the
> version it is run under.  I’ve searched through the advanced cmake
> configuration and can’t find any reference to the system built-in python2
> interpreter.
>
> Any suggestions on what might be going wrong?
>
> Thanks!
> Jayson
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