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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue May 19 2009 - 21:08:44 CDT

I just heard back from one of the users that had been getting
a crash, and it turns out they had an old version of VMD installed
in the same directory (they didn't uninstall the old version prior to
installing the new one). After they uninstalled all VMD instances
and reinstalled VMD 1.8.7, things started working correctly for them.
I'll see if I can adjust the VMD 1.8.7 installer to detect when a user
attempts to install over the top of an existing installation, but for
the time being, please double check on this and let me know if you're
still having trouble.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 09:02:57PM -0500, John Stone wrote:
> Hi,
> Which NVIDIA driver version are you running? This sounds like an
> OpenGL driver bug to me, since I don't get a crash on either my
> NVIDIA-equipped test boxes at the lab, or an an old laptop with
> an outdated ATI chipset.
>
> I've had two other people tell me that they have encountered a
> crash with the beta, having the exact driver information
> for affected machines will be very helpful so I can report bugs
> the GPU vendors.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:14:34PM +0200, MyLinkka wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm eager to try out the new Beta version. 2 days ago, I installed 1.8.7
> > beta 2 on both my laptop and
> > desktop PC. Beta 2 crashes on the laptop but worked on the PC. Both
> > computers have Nvidia graphics
> > card (FX2700M and Geforce 8600 GT). Today I installed the latest beta
> > 3 on both. Sadly beta 3
> > crashed on both computers! Before install beta2, I didn't install any
> > software or update drivers.
> > That's why I turn to this mailing list, cause I think it is almost for
> > sure an issue from vmd.
> >
> > The symptom is the same. After starting vmd, first the console window
> > showed, it seems fine and
> > it listed information and capability of my graphics card. Then the 3D
> > window popped up, I could
> > see the 3D texts and the axes at the corner. (my feeling it the OpenGl
> > context and scene had been
> > created without problem.) Finally it's the turn of the main control
> > windows, I can see the window
> > frame, but before the contents (menus,buttons) could be seen the program
> > crashed.
> >
> > on my laptop, the system report a "the memory could not be 'read'"
> > error. On the PC,
> > an error happend at offset 0x00028c0d in ntdll.dll.
> >
> > BTW, vmd 1.8.6 work perfect on both computers.
> >
> > Could anyone point me what to do? Is there a way to generate a startup
> > log file to address the error
> > source?
> >
> > thanks!
> >
> > ting
>
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> Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
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NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu                 Phone: 217-244-3349
  WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/      Fax: 217-244-6078