Bug#570496: hdfview: can't read (advanced) hdf files created with py-tables

[Achim Gaedke]

Package: hdfview
Version: 2.6-2
Severity: important

Hi there!

Thanks for pushing hdfview forward to a new version! My interest in hdfview is triggered by the DAMARIS project (http://damaris.berlios.de/), using pytables for experimental data archiving.

So I've checked the readability of the hdf files generated by this project and since version 2.6 I can no longer access the datasets. An example file will be supplied.

During browsing through the data tree, I get the following exceptions:
HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 (1.8.3) thread 2411694960:
  #000: ../../../src/H5Adeprec.c line 214 in H5Aopen_name(): can't open attribute
    major: Attribute
    minor: Can't open object
  #001: ../../../src/H5A.c line 873 in H5A_open_by_name(): unable to load attribute info from object header
    major: Attribute
    minor: Unable to initialize object
  #002: ../../../src/H5Oattribute.c line 533 in H5O_attr_open_by_name(): can't locate attribute
    major: Attribute
    minor: Object not found
HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 (1.8.3) thread 2411694960:
  #000: ../../../src/H5T.c line 1707 in H5Tclose(): not a datatype
    major: Invalid arguments to routine
    minor: Inappropriate type
HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 (1.8.3) thread 2411694960:
  #000: ../../../src/H5A.c line 2283 in H5Aclose(): not an attribute
    major: Invalid arguments to routine
    minor: Inappropriate type


When I try to open a numeric dataset by double click, nothing happens. Using the open item of the context menu results in an error dialogue: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException.

With the version 2.5 I can access the data.

Achim


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages hdfview depends on:
ii  java-wrappers            0.1.15          wrappers for java executables
ii  libjgraph-java           5.12.2.1.dfsg-1 JFC/Swing graph component for Java
ii  libjhdf4-java            2.5-8           Java HDF4 Object Package
ii  libjhdf5-java            2.5-8           Java HDF5 Object Package

hdfview recommends no packages.

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