Re: Bug#790925: pandas: FTBFS on armhf and sparc: Bus error in test_append_frame_column_oriented

[peter green <plugwash@p10link.net>]

On 15/02/16 13:36, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> Sorry about delay... quite often those Bus errors just go away on their
> own since aren't anything to be fixed in pandas, but this time it still
> persists with 0.17.1:
>
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=pandas&arch=armhf&ver=0.17.1-3&stamp=1450078009
> test_append_frame_column_oriented (pandas.io.tests.test_pytables.TestHDFStore) ... Exception AttributeError: AttributeError("'File' object has no attribute '_node_manager'",) in  ignored
> Bus error
>
> sparc is gone and seems to be not trying on sparc64 yet.  I will look
> into fixing up my testing environment on sparc64 to see how current
> master is doing:
> http://nipy.bic.berkeley.edu/builders/pandas-py2.x-sid-sparc/builds/1806
>
> Dear ARM people -- any clues on what could be a culprit here
The most likely cause of "bus error" on armhf is an alignment issue with 
a pointer to a floating point type.