HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 (1.8.3)

[gkelly@…]

On Snow Leopard, using MacPorts 1.8.0 and a syncd port tree, I'm running into an error with hdf5-18 and py26-tables.

[gkwrcc@storm <~>]$ uname -a
Darwin storm.dri.edu 10.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.0.0: Fri Jul 31 22:47:34 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1456.1.25~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
[gkwrcc@storm <~>]$ port version
Version: 1.8.0
[gkwrcc@storm <~>]$ port installed hdf5-18
The following ports are currently installed:
  hdf5-18 @1.8.3_0 (active)
[gkwrcc@storm <~>]$ port installed py26-tables
The following ports are currently installed:
  py26-tables @2.1.1_0 (active)
[gkwrcc@storm <~>]$ python2.6
Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Sep  8 2009, 13:12:42) 
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import tables
HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 (1.8.3) thread 0:
  #000: H5Z.c line 273 in H5Zregister(): unable to modify predefined filters
    major: Invalid arguments to routine
    minor: Bad value

[jhaitas@…]

I can confirm this bug on Snow Leopard

[jhaitas@…]

Upstream bug report in PyTables here:

​http://www.pytables.org/trac/ticket/225

[jhaitas@…]

patch from upstream

[mamoll (Mark Moll)]

Thanks for the patch. Seems to work. Applied in r57504 to both py25-tables and py26-tables.