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From: Joshua Skootsky (joshua.skootsky_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu May 15 2014 - 21:51:17 CDT

I'm using VMD on a Macbook Air, Mavericks OSX 10.9.2

It's quite possible that using the latest update (to 10.9.3) broke
compatibility. Something similar happened with Valgrind (a C program
analyzer/debigger) during previous rounds of OSX updates.

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Leah Isseroff Bendavid <leahbd_at_stanford.edu
> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to download and use VMD on my Macbook Air, Mavericks OSX
> 10.9.3. When I download and run the VMD 1.9.1 binary [ MacOS X OpenGL
> (32-bit Intel x86) (Apple MacOS-X 10.5.x or later)], it seg faults
> immediately upon opening with the following error:
>
> /Volumes/VMD-1.9.1 1/VMD 1.9.1.app/Contents/MacOS/startup.command: line
> 7: 1881 Segmentation fault: 11
> "$p/../Resources/VMD.app/Contents/MacOS/VMD" $*
>
> This happens with all other versions of VMD as well.
>
> Is this a known problem of incompatibility with either the Air or OSX
> 10.9? Are there libraries or software that I would need to download first
> to make VMD compatible?
>
> Thanks,
> Leah
> 

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Joshua Skootsky
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