From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 16 2019 - 15:37:23 CDT

Hi Steven,
  This is a known issue with certain Tcl/Tk versions that occurs if
you're running X-windows with an international input handler (e.g. for
chinese characters) such as SCIM or similar.
If you disable the SCIM input handler, the problem should go away.

Best,
  John Stone

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 12:43:55PM -0700, Steven Wang wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently upgraded my operating system to OpenSUSE 15.1 and VMD stopped
> working. Starting VMD (19.4a31
> LINUXAMD64-CUDA9-OptiX600-RTX-OSPRay170.opengl) will lead to "Segmentation
> fault (core dumped)", but "vmd -dispdev text" works. I am using an Nvidia
> GPU (GeForce GTS 1080) with CUDA 10.2 installed. I tried different version
> of VMD. All had the same issue. Can someone let me know how to fix this?
> Thanks.
>
> Steven Wang
> P.S.
> Here are my Nvidia GPU information from nvidia-smi.
> +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | NVIDIA-SMI 430.26 Â Â Â Driver Version: 430.26 Â Â Â CUDA Version:
> 10.2 Â Â |
> |-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
> | GPU  Name     Persistence-M| Bus-Id     Disp.A | Volatile
> Uncorr. ECC |
> | Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|     Memory-Usage | GPU-Util
> Â Compute M. |
> |===============================+======================+======================|
> |  0  GeForce GTX 1080   Off  | 00000000:17:00.0  On |    Â
> Â Â Â Â Â N/A |
> | 28% Â 40C Â Â P5 Â Â 10W / 180W | Â Â 444MiB / Â 8116MiB | Â Â
> Â 1% Â Â Â Default |
> +-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
> Â
> Here is the Linux kernel info.
> Linux version 4.12.14-lp151.28.7-default (geeko_at_buildhost) (gcc version
> 7.4.0 (SUSE Linux) ) #1 SMP Mon Jun 17 16:36:38 UTC 2019 (f8a1872)
> Here is the "vmd -debug" message.
> vmd -debug
> ***
> *** Running VMD in debugger, type 'run' at debugger prompt
> ***
> GNU gdb (GDB; openSUSE Leap 15.1) 8.2
> Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
> <[1]http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details.
> This GDB was configured as "x86_64-suse-linux".
> Type "show configuration" for configuration details.
> For bug reporting instructions, please see:
> <[2]http://bugs.opensuse.org/>.
> Find the GDB manual and other documentation resources online at:
> Â Â <[3]http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/documentation/>.
>
> For help, type "help".
> Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word"...
> Reading symbols from
> /data/stevenw/install/vmd/1.9.4.a31/lib/vmd/vmd_LINUXAMD64...done.
> (gdb) run
> Starting program:
> /data/stevenw/install/vmd/1.9.4.a31/lib/vmd/vmd_LINUXAMD64
> Missing separate debuginfo for /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
> Try: zypper install -C
> "debuginfo(build-id)=d7ca383add0385765c8e3456aa714ae42b6a6e83"
> /data/stevenw/install/vmd/1.9.4.a31/lib/vmd/vmd_LINUXAMD64:
> /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1: no version information available (required by
> /data/stevenw/install/vmd/1.9.4.a31/lib/vmd/vmd_LINUXAMD64)
> Missing separate debuginfo for /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1
> Try: zypper install -C
> "debuginfo(build-id)=cf4175e5d66d87ce9e3a63f2004f8618e74720ae"
> Missing separate debuginfo for /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6
> Try: zypper install -C
> "debuginfo(build-id)=df52beb86f5c40e875345eb6a5ff7c1e3ac22dee"
> Missing separate debuginfo for /lib64/librt.so.1
> Try: zypper install -C
> "debuginfo(build-id)=e51c445381402916aeff8fa555a7779d518fd1ac"
> Missing separate debuginfo for /usr/lib64/libXinerama.so.1
> Try: zypper install -C
> "debuginfo(build-id)=2a7d9e7cff2feee5ed1ce01d3bcbb28a1c77346b"
> Missing separate debuginfo for /usr/lib64/libXi.so.6
> Try: zypper install -C
> "debuginfo(build-id)=c3e259a5a1abfc0b95c8448fb7734c022caad334"
> Missing separate debuginfo for /lib64/libpthread.so.0
> Try: zypper install -C
> "debuginfo(build-id)=68cc1007b0e595b758221977d554be6164b0fb07"
> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1".
> Missing separate debuginfo for /lib64/libm.so.6
> Try: zypper install -C
> "debuginfo(build-id)=7412b90a9c901afc33370ce58e796df47882c62c"
> Missing separate debuginfo for /lib64/libdl.so.2
> Try: zypper install -C
> "debuginfo(build-id)=62f0af5febe3a20dee53bd8e52eed5a0a2a23d38"
> Missing separate debuginfo for /lib64/libutil.so.1
> Try: zypper install -C
> "debuginfo(build-id)=769185def058cacc2d02e1b37bb16ee48cc219aa"
> Missing separate debuginfo for /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6
> Try: zypper install -C
> "debuginfo(build-id)=9dc2c7c42b9bccf5b065ab5038d7ea7dd13dbbf1"
> Missing separate debuginfo for /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1
> Try: zypper install -C
> "debuginfo(build-id)=3951fe59642d19b2a914f3cfa0834548338baf4a"
> Missing separate debuginfo for /lib64/libc.so.6
> Try: zypper install -C
> "debuginfo(build-id)=5f5808c2afdf0ace734ad8c317e6d5fd14b6048b"
> Missing separate debuginfo for /usr/lib64/libGLX.so.0
> Try: zypper install -C
> "debuginfo(build-id)=c46ac1043b5ea9de5fafbacc529288b544963d31"
> Missing separate debuginfo for /usr/lib64/libGLdispatch.so.0
> Try: zypper install -C
> "debuginfo(build-id)=78563d78f59a00e890fee76435e9439dc8cc2a08"
> Missing separate debuginfo for /usr/lib64/libxcb.so.1
> Try: zypper install -C
> "debuginfo(build-id)=9fd896ed29cfe7df608513940be70e1884da1371"
> Missing separate debuginfo for /usr/lib64/libXext.so.6
> Try: zypper install -C
> "debuginfo(build-id)=23bae5cf3751002e7065bcdcd01312f4b3a9c0e7"
> Missing separate debuginfo for /usr/lib64/libXau.so.6
> Try: zypper install -C
> "debuginfo(build-id)=78c9f9354c6549cb94288e580439bce59d3473bc"
> Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.9.4a31 (March 13, 2019)
> Info) [4]http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
> Â Â Â
> Info) Email questions and bug reports to [5]vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu     Â
> Info) Please include this reference in published work using VMD: Â
> Info) Â Â Humphrey, W., Dalke, A. and Schulten, K., `VMD - Visual Â
> Info) Â Â Molecular Dynamics', J. Molec. Graphics 1996, 14.1, 33-38.
> Info) -------------------------------------------------------------
> Info) Multithreading available, 48 CPUs detected.
> Info) Â CPU features: SSE2 AVX AVX2 FMA AVX512F AVX512CD
> Info) Free system memory: 53GB (85%)
> [New Thread 0x7ffff1d8f700 (LWP 44288)]
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> [New Thread 0x7fffdad61700 (LWP 44334)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffda560700 (LWP 44335)]
> [Detaching after fork from child process 44336]
> [New Thread 0x7fffd29a1700 (LWP 44338)]
> Info) Creating CUDA device pool and initializing hardware...
> [New Thread 0x7fffd21a0700 (LWP 44339)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffd199f700 (LWP 44340)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffd101b700 (LWP 44341)]
> Info) Detected 1 available CUDA accelerator:
> Info) [0] GeForce GTX 1080 Â Â 20 SM_6.1 1.73 GHz, 7.9GB RAM, KTO, AE2,
> ZCP
> Missing separate debuginfo for /usr/lib64/libdrm.so.2
> Try: zypper install -C
> "debuginfo(build-id)=9457cd03018db62905ed9cdd97df90042cf4142a"
> Missing separate debuginfo for /usr/lib64/libXcursor.so.1
> Try: zypper install -C
> "debuginfo(build-id)=b11feef95ee2e8377af6ae42b28c472ba9f103b4"
> Missing separate debuginfo for /usr/lib64/libXrender.so.1
> Try: zypper install -C
> "debuginfo(build-id)=22892a1a7852d4c7f7e6c6f04c5d733fa15f9a02"
> Missing separate debuginfo for /usr/lib64/libXfixes.so.3
> Try: zypper install -C
> "debuginfo(build-id)=e7d452c128c20137b7fef3a7da54a5ef09a1d00d"
> Info) OpenGL renderer: GeForce GTX 1080/PCIe/SSE2
> Info) Â Features: STENCIL MSAA(4) MDE CVA MTX NPOT PP PS GLSL(OVFGS)
> Info) Â Full GLSL rendering mode is available.
> Info) Â Textures: 2-D (32768x32768), 3-D (16384x16384x16384),
> Multitexture (4)
> Info) Detected 1 available TachyonL/OptiX ray tracing accelerator
> Info) Â Compiling 1 OptiX shaders on 1 target GPU...
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> Missing separate debuginfo for /usr/lib64/libexpat.so.1
> Try: zypper install -C
> "debuginfo(build-id)=a204d46cc1defae0557404b7eeacf0eaf4d9c339"
> Info) Dynamically loaded 3 plugins in directory:
> Info)
> /data/stevenw/install/vmd/1.9.4.a31/lib/vmd/plugins/LINUXAMD64/molfile
>
> Thread 1 "vmd_LINUXAMD64" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x00007ffff7858242 in XGetICValues () from /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6
>
> References
>
> Visible links
> 1. http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
> 2. http://bugs.opensuse.org/
> 3. http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/documentation/
> 4. http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
> 5. mailto:vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

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