Public bug reported: The HDF5 viewer "hdfview" is currently broken. All files opened by this application just appear empty.
As discussed in debian bugreport https://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=853750 this is due to an incompatibility of HDF5 libraries HDF5-1.8 and HDF5-1.10. hdfview doesn't work with version 1.10. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04 Package: hdfview 2.11.0+dfsg-2build1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-22.24-generic 4.10.15 Uname: Linux 4.10.0-22-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu4.1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7 Date: Wed Jun 7 16:56:03 2017 InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-02-06 (121 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.2) SourcePackage: jhdf UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to zesty on 2017-04-15 (53 days ago) ** Affects: jhdf (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: jhdf (Debian) Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug zesty ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #853750 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=853750 ** Also affects: jhdf (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=853750 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1696456 Title: HDF5 files appear empty To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jhdf/+bug/1696456/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs