test failure for ase--3.2.0

[cole008@…]

I am running python 2.6.2, matplotlib-0.99, pygtk-2.0, and numpy-1.3.0 on a Mac-OSX 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM. I am running Leopard (not Snow Leopard). I am not aware that pyatoms or scipy are required for the build but in any case these installed also. I have installed both the most recent version on ase-3.2.0 as well as the development branch with no problems whatsoever following the instructions given here: ​https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/ase/download.html. However, when I run the test I get the errors. Note these errors occur whether or not I include —no-display or not, even though it should work for me as I have display options (pygtk and matplotlib) installed. They are configured correctly, I tested against a python fitting program I have been working on before sending this ticket. The errors are as follows:

io.py (ScriptTestCase) ... ERROR

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ERROR: io.py (ScriptTestCase)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ase/test/__init__.py", line 45, in testfile
    execfile(self.filename, {'display': self.display})
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ase/test/io.py", line 16, in <module>
    import matplotlib
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib-0.99.0-py2.5-macosx-10.3-i386.egg/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 709, in <module>
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib-0.99.0-py2.5-macosx-10.3-i386.egg/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 627, in rc_params
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib-0.99.0-py2.5-macosx-10.3-i386.egg/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 569, in matplotlib_fname
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib-0.99.0-py2.5-macosx-10.3-i386.egg/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 240, in wrapper
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib-0.99.0-py2.5-macosx-10.3-i386.egg/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 483, in _get_data_path_cached
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib-0.99.0-py2.5-macosx-10.3-i386.egg/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 479, in _get_data_path
RuntimeError: Could not find the matplotlib data files

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trajectory.py (ScriptTestCase) ... ERROR

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ERROR: trajectory.py (ScriptTestCase)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ase/test/__init__.py", line 45, in testfile
    execfile(self.filename, {'display': self.display})
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ase/test/trajectory.py", line 11, in <module>
    traj = PickleTrajectory('1.traj', 'a')
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ase/io/trajectory.py", line 61, in __init__
    self.open(filename, mode)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ase/io/trajectory.py", line 79, in open
    self.read_header()
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ase/io/trajectory.py", line 103, in read_header
    raise IOError('This is not a trajectory file!')
IOError: This is not a trajectory file!

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Any help would be greatly appreciated. If this has been reported already, sorry!

[Christian Boos]

WrongTrac, you were looking for ​https://trac.fysik.dtu.dk/projects/ase/wiki.

(btw, please tell them to modify their WikiStart page so that it has a bit of content specific to their project, thanks!)