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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Sun Mar 02 2014 - 15:20:48 CST

On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Phillips, Carolyn L. <cphillips_at_anl.gov> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to pin down why my version of VMD 1.91.1 built from source has
> started seg faulting. (Note, i cannot run vmd -debug because gdb is no
> longer included with Xcode on Mavericks as a command line tool, you can get
> it from macports but it is now called ggdb )
>
> I started with verifying if I download and run the VMD1.9.1 binary that it
> still works. What I found is that this version does work, MacOS X OpenGL
> (32-bit Intel x86) (Apple MacOS-X 10.5.x or later).
>
> This version crashes, MacOS X OpenGL, CUDA (32-bit Intel x86) (Apple
> MacOS-X 10.5.x or later with CUDA)
>
> It cannot seem to interface with the cuda library correctly
>
> /Volumes/VMD-1.9.1/VMD\ 1.9.1.app/Contents/MacOS/startup.command ; exit;
> dyld: Library not loaded: @executable_path/libcudart.dylib
> Referenced from: /Volumes/VMD-1.9.1/VMD
> 1.9.1.app/Contents/MacOS/../Resources/VMD.app/Contents/MacOS/VMD
> Reason: Incompatible library version: VMD requires version 1.1.0 or later,
> but libcudart.dylib provides version 0.0.0

hi carolyn,

this looks like VMD picks up some old and incompatible version of the
cuda runtime library from somewhere.

axel.

> /Volumes/VMD-1.9.1/VMD 1.9.1.app/Contents/MacOS/startup.command: line 7:
> 2533 Trace/BPT trap: 5 "$p/../Resources/VMD.app/Contents/MacOS/VMD" $*
> logout
>
> [Process completed]
>
>
> My system is
>
> Mac OSX 10.9.1
> Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB
> Processor 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7
>
>
> -Carolyn 

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Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer  akohlmey_at_gmail.com  http://goo.gl/1wk0
College of Science & Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA
International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.