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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 12:44:50PM -0400, Shawn Walker wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Anders Logg wrote:
> 
> >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.
> >
> 
> I'm running red-hat enterprise linux (64-bit INTEL).  I have the
> most up to date FENICS, and I have VTK 5.5 installed.  Did I miss
> some kind of VTK 64-bit switch compile option?
> 
> - Shawn

Not unlikely. If you get it working, let me know. I'm using the
prebuilt Ubuntu packages.

-- 
Anders

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