Description:

On an updated Arch Linux, running the following python script will core dump:

import tables
tables.open_file('foo.h5')

Here is the error message: https://ptpb.pw/jsrI

WORKAROUND: Downgrading the hdf5 package to 1.10.1-3 works.


Additional info:

~$ pacman -Syu && date
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
there is nothing to do
Tue May 29 22:55:20 -03 2018

~$ pacman -Si python-pytables
Repository : community
Name : python-pytables
Version : 3.4.3-1
Description : A package for managing hierarchical datasets and designed to efficiently and easily cope with extremely large
amounts of data
Architecture : x86_64
URL : http://www.pytables.org
Licenses : BSD
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : lzo hdf5 python-numexpr blosc
Optional Deps : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Download Size : 1184.21 KiB
Installed Size : 9167.00 KiB
Packager : Andrzej Giniewicz <gginiu@gmail.com>
Build Date : Thu 10 May 2018 07:50:02 AM -03
Validated By : MD5 Sum SHA-256 Sum Signature

~$ pacman -Si hdf5
Repository : community
Name : hdf5
Version : 1.10.2-3
Description : General purpose library and file format for storing scientific data
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://www.hdfgroup.org/hdf5/
Licenses : custom
Groups : None
Provides : hdf5-cpp-fortran
Depends On : zlib libaec bash
Optional Deps : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : hdf5-cpp-fortran
Download Size : 2.87 MiB
Installed Size : 9.72 MiB
Packager : Bruno Pagani <archange@archlinux.org>
Build Date : Wed 23 May 2018 10:47:51 AM -03
Validated By : MD5 Sum SHA-256 Sum Signature