From: Tru Huynh (tru_at_pasteur.fr)
Date: Mon Dec 10 2012 - 09:14:43 CST

Hi,

vmd just crash after starting with:
[tru_at_yippy ~]$ vmd
Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.9.1 (February 1, 2012)
Info) http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
Info) Email questions and bug reports to vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
Info) Please include this reference in published work using VMD:
Info) Humphrey, W., Dalke, A. and Schulten, K., `VMD - Visual
Info) Molecular Dynamics', J. Molec. Graphics 1996, 14.1, 33-38.
Info) -------------------------------------------------------------
Info) Multithreading available, 16 CPUs detected.
Info) Free system memory: 116468MB (90%)
Info) Creating CUDA device pool and initializing hardware...
CUDA error: invalid device symbol, CUDAClearDevice.cu line 62
CUDA error: invalid device symbol, CUDAClearDevice.cu line 62
CUDA error: invalid device symbol, CUDAClearDevice.cu line 62
CUDA error: invalid device symbol, CUDAClearDevice.cu line 62
Info) Detected 4 available CUDA accelerators:
Info) [0] GeForce GTX 680 8 SM_3.0 @ 1.14 GHz, 4.0GB RAM, OIO, ZCP
Info) [1] GeForce GTX 680 8 SM_3.0 @ 1.14 GHz, 4.0GB RAM, OIO, ZCP
Info) [2] GeForce GTX 680 8 SM_3.0 @ 1.14 GHz, 4.0GB RAM, OIO, ZCP
Info) [3] GeForce GTX 680 8 SM_3.0 @ 1.14 GHz, 4.0GB RAM, OIO, ZCP
Warning) Detected X11 'Composite' extension: if incorrect display occurs
Warning) try disabling this optional X server feature.
Info) OpenGL renderer: GeForce 210/PCI/SSE2
Info) Features: STENCIL MSAA(4) MDE MTX NPOT PP PS GLSL(OVFG)
XRequest.143: BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length error) 0x1e00046
Warning) GPU driver failed to compile shader:
Warning) /c5/shared/vmd/vmd-1.9.1/shaders/vmd
Warning) This GPU/driver is buggy, or doesn't fully implement GLSL.
Warning) Set environment variable VMDGLSLVERBOSE for more info.
Info) GLSL rendering mode is NOT available.
Info) Textures: 2-D (8192x8192), 3-D (2048x2048x2048), Multitexture (4)
Segmentation fault

The previous version (nothing else changed) works fine:
[tru_at_yippy ~]$ vmd
Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.8.7 (August 1, 2009)
Info) http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
Info) Email questions and bug reports to vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
Info) Please include this reference in published work using VMD:
Info) Humphrey, W., Dalke, A. and Schulten, K., `VMD - Visual
Info) Molecular Dynamics', J. Molec. Graphics 1996, 14.1, 33-38.
Info) -------------------------------------------------------------
Info) Multithreading available, 16 CPUs detected.
Info) Free system memory: 128451MB (99%)
Info) No CUDA accelerator devices available.
Warning) Detected X11 'Composite' extension: if incorrect display occurs
Warning) try disabling this optional X server feature.
Info) OpenGL renderer: GeForce 210/PCI/SSE2
Info) Features: STENCIL MSAA(4) MDE MTX NPOT PP PS
Info) GLSL rendering mode is NOT available.
Info) Textures: 2-D (8192x8192), 3-D (2048x2048x2048), Multitexture (4)
vmd > Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.8.7 (August 1, 2009)
Info) Exiting normally.

details:
[tru_at_yippy 304.64]$ uname -a
Linux yippy.bis.pasteur.fr 2.6.18-308.20.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Nov 13 10:15:12 EST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[tru_at_yippy 304.64]$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 304.64 Tue Oct 30 10:58:20 PDT 2012
GCC version: gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-52)
(from elrepo)

Best regards,

Tru

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