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From: Francesco Pietra (chiendarret_at_gmail.com)
Date: Sun Dec 09 2018 - 01:29:24 CST

Perhaps the new attachment is clearer (it hangeg again)
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---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Francesco Pietra <chiendarret_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: vmd-l: Extensions not working
To: John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>, VMD Mailing List <vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
Cc: VMD Mailing List <vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu>

Hi John:
Since then it worked correctly. Now again "Extension" was empty. I was only
able to take a screenshot (in attachment), while enlarging as much as
possible what was going on. Hope this is useful
francesco

On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 10:21 PM John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> If I had to guess, there is likely some problem that is preventing
> VMD's environment variables from being propagated from the
> 'vmd' startup script. Since you haven't shared the error messages,
> it is hard to say what went wrong or what to fix. If you post the
> console messages VMD prints during startup, that would be helpful.
>
> Best,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Sat, Dec 01, 2018 at 04:17:03PM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> > Hi all
> > I am at VMD1.9.3 in remote visualization to the computing center (node
> > with tesla). VMD launched through modules guided by SLURM. Yesterday
> > everything OK. Today the folder Extensions, an clicking on it as
> usual, is
> > like to empty and I was unable to get the tk console, and I can't work
> > without.
> > bash console reports a number of warnings that I have always seen.
> > The same problem if I use VMD 1.9.4 directly from my home at the
> center,
> > without going through the modules.
> > Is there a way to get the tk console anyway when such a problem
> occurs?
> > thanks
> > francesco pietra
>
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