I see the following test errors on ubuntu_x86_64 9.10

ERROR: Check linalg works with non-aligned memory
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/nose/case.py", line 183, in runTest
    self.test(*self.arg)
  File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/scipy/linalg/tests/test_decomp.py",
line 1067, in test_aligned_mem
    eig(z.T, overwrite_a=True)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/scipy/linalg/decomp.py", line
158, in eig
    geev, = get_lapack_funcs(('geev',),(a1,))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/scipy/linalg/lapack.py", line
82, in get_lapack_funcs
    raise ValueError("Non-aligned array cannot be passed to LAPACK without
copying")
ValueError: Non-aligned array cannot be passed to LAPACK without copying

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ERROR: test_mpmath.test_hyp2f1_real_some_points
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/nose/case.py", line 183, in runTest
    self.test(*self.arg)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/numpy/testing/decorators.py",
line 143, in skipper_func
    return f(*args, **kwargs)
  File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/scipy/special/tests/test_mpmath.py",
line 83, in test_hyp2f1_real_some_points
    dataset = [p + (float(mpmath.hyp2f1(*p)),) for p in pts]
TypeError: float() argument must be a string or a number

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ERROR: test_mpmath.test_hyp2f1_real_some
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/nose/case.py", line 183, in runTest
    self.test(*self.arg)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/numpy/testing/decorators.py",
line 143, in skipper_func
    return f(*args, **kwargs)
  File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/scipy/special/tests/test_mpmath.py",
line 109, in test_hyp2f1_real_some
    except (TypeError, mpmath.libhyper.NoConvergence):
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'NoConvergence'

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Ran 3989 tests in 31.954s

FAILED (KNOWNFAIL=7, SKIP=29, errors=3)

I suspect the last failure is an mpmath version problem, and maybe the
second also. Is anyone else seeing the other error?

Chuck