Hi Yaroslav, On Wed, 01 Oct, 2008 at 01:02:48AM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Thanks for the update. Indeed NEW is not too fast -- I myself > waiting on my new package to pass through ;) > > I hope that there would be no major licensing issues... May be it is > worth to pursue unstable right away? who needs prev version could get it > from lenny ;) > > few brief issues I ran into > > * trying to run examples (from /usr/share/doc/mayavi2/examples/mayavi) > > ** $> python offscreen.py > Failed to initialize TTM buffer manager. Falling back to classic. > ERROR: In /build/buildd/vtk-5.0.4/IO/vtkPNGWriter.cxx, line 220 > vtkPNGWriter (0x67d0db0): Unable to open file offscreen.png > > ERROR: In /build/buildd/vtk-5.0.4/IO/vtkImageWriter.cxx, line 506 > vtkPNGWriter (0x67d0db0): Ran out of disk space; deleting file(s) already > written > > $> dpkg -S offscreen.png > dpkg: *offscreen.png* not found.
This is just a write permission issue (though I have no idea about this misleading error message), the offscreen.png file is dumped by the offscreen.py script. So try to run it some directory where you have write access (say $HOME) instead of /usr/share/doc/... > > ** was 'explore' function removed from interactive shell within mayavi2? > > ** Also I am observing major rendering bug (or some feature? :-)), which > I am not sure I experienced with sid version that badly... screenshot of > running contour.py http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/mayavi2-zorder.png > Similar incorrect renders happen in other scripts (numeric_source.py). > > I guess I would need to test on some other box to check if that is not a card > specific issue. I'm also facing some rendering issues. I will check this with upstream and get back to you. -Varun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
