[Python-modules-team] Bug#644987: Crashes with 'IndexError: list index out of range'

[Evgeny Kurbatov]

Package: python-matplotlib
Version: 1.0.1-3
Severity: important


Dear Mainteiner,

Running demos from '/usr/share/doc/python-matplotlib-doc/examples' I
got no output except an error:

$ python2.6 subplot_demo.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "subplot_demo.py", line 2, in <module>
    from pylab import *
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/pylab.py", line 1, in <module>
    from matplotlib.pylab import *
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/matplotlib/pylab.py", line 220, in
<module> from matplotlib import mpl  # pulls in most modules
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/matplotlib/mpl.py", line 2, in
<module> from matplotlib import axis
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/matplotlib/axis.py", line 10, in
<module> import matplotlib.font_manager as font_manager
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line
1349, in <module> _rebuild()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line
1299, in _rebuild fontManager = FontManager()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line
1023, in __init__ self.afmlist = createFontList(self.afmfiles,
fontext='afm')
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line
591, in createFontList font = afm.AFM(fh)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/matplotlib/afm.py", line 304, in
__init__ parse_afm(fh)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/matplotlib/afm.py", line 292, in
parse_afm dcmetrics_ascii, dcmetrics_name = _parse_char_metrics(fh)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/matplotlib/afm.py", line 176, in
_parse_char_metrics name = vals[2].split()[1]
IndexError: list index out of range


I've tried both python2.6 and python2.7 and had the same error.
It looks like a font problem but I didn't touch anything in the Python
installation. Everything was installed via aptitude.

Today, 2011-10-11, I've updated Wheezy but it doesn't help.

I am using Debian GNU/Linux Wheezy, kernel 3.0.0-1-686-pae, libc6
(eglibc) 2.13-21.

Regards,
Evgeny Kurbatov