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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 06:35:04PM +0200, Ola Skavhaug wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Shawn Walker<walker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Has anyone experienced this error:
> >
> > Plotting v (unnamed function), press 'q' to continue...
> > Read data
> > End Read data
> > ERROR: In /home/walker/src/VTK/Common/vtkDataArrayTemplate.txx, line 359
> > vtkIdTypeArray (0x111604a0): Unable to allocate 326417515851 elements of
> > size 8 bytes.
> >
> > when running any of the dolfin demos with python?
> >
> > I saw an message from Anders saying that he got this error too.  I have no
> > idea what is causing this.  Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> I've gotten a lot of these reports lately, but I'm not able to
> reproduce the bug on my 64 bit Ubuntu Hardy machines. There might be
> some problems with your VTK installation or something related to the
> versions of Python and VTK your're using.

I get something similar:

ERROR: In /build/buildd/vtk-5.2.1/Common/vtkDataArrayTemplate.txx, line 341
vtkIdTypeArray (0x2a3a600): Unable to allocate 4294967817 elements of size 8 bytes. 

I'm running Ubuntu Karmic Koala (AMD64) on a 64 bit laptop.

-- 
Anders

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