Mayavi 4.8.3 crashes JupyterLab kernel

[xaverm]

I am experiencing exactly the same issue as described on stackoverflow, which details that Mayavi 4.8.3 crashes JupyterLab (>= 4.4.4) kernels.

Any idea what might be the culprit?

[xaverm]

So, has development of Mayavi been terminated(?)
Since months it has stopped to work with current versions of Jupyter and VTK.
Questions about Mayavi crashing recent versions of Jupyter are neither replied to here, nor elsewhere.
Maybe there are no devs around anymore(?)
What a pity - Mayavi has been such a useful piece of software. Sad.

[drocheam]

It has always been that slow. When looking at the commit history, there are gaps of multiple months. PyPI releases are typically more than a year apart.

Until then, you can either wait, use an older version of mayavi or find a fix yourself.

Have you tried getting more verbose output of jupyter or using gdb for more crash information?

[prabhuramachandran]

@xaverm -- My apologies but Mayavi has been around for close to 25 years, and even in its current form it is about 20 years old. I'm a lot older now with many other things happening in my life. It is really hard for me to find time to keep it going at the rate people may expect. Thanks to the efforts of @larsoner it has been moving along better than if I had to do it alone. So if you are willing to help, please do. Thanks.

[xaverm]

No offense! That is what happens to all seminal open source code eventually, if maintained by only too few brave people. I have just checked and my 1st import of mayavi dates back at least 14 years. It has been a great time. Thank you.