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From: james tomomi macdonald (j.macdonald_at_mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Apr 23 2003 - 13:53:11 CDT

John,
Thanks, i've installed the OpenGL version and it doesn't crash.

Cheers,

James.

On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, John Stone wrote:

> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 13:27:57 -0500
> From: John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
> To: james tomomi macdonald <j.macdonald_at_mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk>
> Cc: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: installation problems with Redhat 9
>
>
> James,
> Try installing the OpenGL version instead of the Mesa version and
> let me know if you get different behavior. I have to admit that we have
> not yet tested VMD on Redhat 9 ourselves, so this is useful information.
> I suspect you may have better success with the OpenGL version due to the
> way it was linked, but even if not, please let me know so I can give you
> a new test version to try if that doesn't pan out. You can ignore the
> Tcl warnings you got when invoking the binary directly, that's a
> predictable side effect of not using the 'vmd' startup script to run it.
> Its the seg fault that we have to debug here...
>
> Thanks,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 07:15:22PM +0100, james tomomi macdonald wrote:
> >
> > I am having problems installing the Mesa binary version of VMD 1.8 on
> > redhat9. It immediately crashes and core dumps. Running the binary
> > directly using the command:
> >
> > /usr/local/lib/vmd/vmd_LINUX
> >
> > i get the following error message:
> >
> > Info) Multithreading available, 2 CPUs detected.
> > Info) OpenGL renderer: Mesa X11
> > Info) Features: STENCIL RN MTX
> > Info) Textures: 2-D (2048x2048), 3-D (2048x2048x2048), Multitexture (2)
> > ERROR) Tcl startup error: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following
> > directories:
> > ERROR) /Projects/johns/tcl/lib_LINUX/lib/tcl8.3
> > ERROR)
> > ERROR)
> > ERROR)
> > ERROR) This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.
> > ERROR) Tk startup error: invalid command name "tcl_findLibrary"
> > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> >
> > It previously ran fine on the same machine with redhat7.2.
> >
> > I would be very grateful if anyone could help.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > James MacDonald.
> >
>
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