On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Charles R Harris
<charlesr.harris@[...].com> wrote:

>  I see the following test errors on ubuntu_x86_64 9.10
> 
>  ERROR: Check linalg works with non-aligned memory
>  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  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
> 
>  ======================================================================
>  ERROR: test_mpmath.test_hyp2f1_real_some_points
>  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  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
> 
>  ======================================================================
>  ERROR: test_mpmath.test_hyp2f1_real_some
>  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  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'
> 
>  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  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?
> 
> 
Installing mpmath 0.13 cures the last two errors, Karmic Koala installs
mpmath-0.12. So I think there is an mpmath version dependency that needs to
be dealt with.

Chuck