I can't reproduce you problem with Intrepid on 64bit with openmpi and the current pyMPI (2.5b0). I compiled pyMPI via configure and make, and also ran make check (1 of 89 tests fails).
> lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 8.10 Release: 8.10 Codename: intrepid > apt-cache policy libopenmpi-dev libopenmpi-dev: Installed: 1.2.7~rc2-1ubuntu2 Candidate: 1.2.7~rc2-1ubuntu2 Version table: *** 1.2.7~rc2-1ubuntu2 0 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > ./pyMPI Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Oct 5 2008, 19:49:54) [GCC 4.3.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> -- Crash with pyMPI that doesn't happen with latest upstream https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/307901 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs