From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 19 2015 - 09:21:27 CDT

What happens if you use "C" for LC_ALL?

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 07:38:50PM +0530, Rohit Goswami wrote:
> Well, the error pops up on start-up without anything being run...
> The locale isn't set explicitly, but the LANG variable is set to en_US.UTF-8
> What should the locale be set as?
> On the terminal locale returns the following
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=
>
> Exporting LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" doesn't fix the problem either.
> Thanks
>
> 19.06.2015, 19:12, "John Stone" <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>:
> > Hi,
> >   I searched the code for that error, and it appears to be coming from
> > the PME potential GUI plugin. I'm wondering if you have your LOCALE
> > set to something unusual that is causing problems for that code?
> >
> > Does this error arise during VMD startup, or after you do something
> > specific in the program?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >   John Stone
> >   vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 04:06:35PM +0530, Rohit Goswami wrote:
> >>  On every vmd start, I'm getting this persistent error, inspite of not using the PME electrostatics functions at all. I'm running an archlinux 64-bit machine with vmd 1.9.2
> >>
> >>  PME Electrostatics Error
> >>
> >>  Error updating the cell information:
> >>  missing operand at _@_
> >>  in expression ".... + 10.*0. + 0.*10. + _@_*"
> >
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