ReadAsArray() ends with SIGSEGV

[digital-idiot]

Expected behavior and actual behavior.

I expected to be able to read a TIFF into a <numpy.ndarray> using the usual gdal function ReadAsArray(). But it exits with exit code 139 (interrupted by signal 11: SIGSEGV). I tried with different tiff file, also tried the same with python2 and ended up with the same exit code in all the cases. Stack Exchange post about same issue in the Mac OS: Stack Exchange Post

Steps to reproduce the problem.

Below is the code to reproduce the problem

import numpy as np
import gdal
band1 = gdal.Open("liss3_poanta.tif").GetRasterBand(1)
b1 = band1.ReadAsArray() # This is where SIGSEGV occurs

Operating system

Linux hell-fire 4.19.0-1-MANJARO SMP PREEMPT x86_64 GNU/Linux

GDAL version and provenance

GDAL 2.3.2, released 2018/09/21, installed from community repository

[rouault]

You need to keep a reference to the dataset. So

ds = gdal.Open("liss3_poanta.tif")
band1 = ds.GetRasterBand(1)
b1 = band1.ReadAsArray() # This is where SIGSEGV occurs

See https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/PythonGotchas