{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/5966","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/matplotlib/matplotlib","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/5966/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/5966/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/5966/events","html_url":"https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/5966","id":131411725,"number":5966,"title":"SEGFAULT if `pyplot` is imported","user":{"login":"ivannz","id":2227377,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2227377?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/ivannz","html_url":"https://github.com/ivannz","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ivannz/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ivannz/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ivannz/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ivannz/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ivannz/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ivannz/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ivannz/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ivannz/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ivannz/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2016-02-04T17:04:23Z","updated_at":"2016-02-04T17:04:23Z","closed_at":null,"body":"For my research I need to be able to perform dimensionality reduction in parallel and then plot\r\nthe results for analysis. In order to perform experiments more efficiently is use **joblib** for local\r\nparallel computing. However, every time i try to perform SVD in a spawned process, that process\r\nunexpectedly crashes inside a call to some routine in BLAS. The strangest thing is that the crashes\r\nhappen only when I specifically import **matplotlib.pyplot**.\r\n\r\nI managed to produce a what seems to be the bare minimum script required to reproduce\r\nthe fault. I also prepared an archive with the crash report and a frozen list of pip packages.\r\n\r\nI did some searching and found an [issue](https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image/issues/1088) similar to this one in `scikit-image`.\r\n\r\n[matplotlib_crash.zip](https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/files/117839/matplotlib_crash.zip)\r\n"}}