From: B. Bennion (bbennion_at_u.washington.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 24 2002 - 20:30:05 CDT

Try using the

vmd -dispdev text

Command to see if that will work or give you an error message that you can
read.

Brian

On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Margaret Cheung wrote:

> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 17:49:42 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Margaret Cheung <cheung_at_physics.ucsd.edu>
> To: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> Subject: core dump when launching vmd1.8a21
>
> Dear All,
>
> I'd like to install vmd 1.8 to test some plugin scripts Brian sent to me.
> However, after I install vmd1.8 on my system (linux RH 7.3),
> vmd crashes (too fast to read the error output under
> vmd command line) whenever I launch it.
>
> The following is the message I file the core message,
>
> [root]# file core*
> core.26827: ELF 32-bit LSB core file of 'vmd_LINUX' (signal 11), Intel
> 80386, version 1 (SYSV), from 'vmd_LINUX'
>
> Is there a solution for this? Thannk you very much.
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Margaret S. Cheung
> Physics Department 0319
> University of California, San Diego
> 9500 Gilman Drive,
> La Jolla, CA 92093-0319
> http://www-physics.ucsd.edu/~cheung
>
>

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