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From: Troy Wymore (wymore_at_psc.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 05 2002 - 13:01:58 CDT

fixing the permission on /usr/tmp worked on my linux box.

Thanks.

On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, John Stone wrote:

>
> Hi Troy,
> Do you have writeable /usr/tmp and /var/tmp directories as well?
> I agree it sounds like a filesystem issue of some kind.
> What kind of machine are you using by the way? That might help
> me figure out where VMD/Stride are putting their temp files.
>
> Thanks,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 12:54:21PM -0400, Troy Wymore wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Sorry about this but something appears to have been corrupted on
> > my machine and I can no longer get VMD to use the stride program to get
> > cartoon representations. I even tried reinstalling. Here is the error:
> >
> > ERROR) Stride::write_stride_record: unable to write input file for Stride
> > ERROR) Call to Stride program failed.
> >
> > My path appears fine, I can write to /tmp...so any ideas on what could be
> > the problem?
> >
> > Thanks so much,
> >
> > Troy Wymore
> >
>
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