From: Bogdan Costescu (bcostescu_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed May 19 2010 - 08:34:38 CDT

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Rob <spamrefuse_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have installed latest VMD (1.8.7) on a Linux 32bits PC.

Same happens with Fedora 11 on a x86_64 with input method set up.

> Vmd almost immediately crashes when fired up.
> Reason is my "unusual" setting of LANG to "en_US.UTF-8".

This is not unusual at all. We use it as well and I think that it is
the default for the modern distributions.

> When I manually set LANG to "C" and then start vmd,
> everything works fine.....

Do you have any input methods set for non-ascii characters (f.e.
chinese) ? On a set of workstations with the exact same setup
(automatically installed and configured), if the input method is set
up by the user, VMD will crash and the setting of LANG to C fixes it;
if the input method is not set, then VMD will work with the default
LANG (en_US.UTF-8).

> (if not, then this LANG settings problem needs to be resolved!).

Oh, well, easier said than done...

Bogdan