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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 23 2003 - 13:27:57 CDT

James,
  Try installing the OpenGL version instead of the Mesa version and
let me know if you get different behavior. I have to admit that we have
not yet tested VMD on Redhat 9 ourselves, so this is useful information.
I suspect you may have better success with the OpenGL version due to the
way it was linked, but even if not, please let me know so I can give you
a new test version to try if that doesn't pan out. You can ignore the
Tcl warnings you got when invoking the binary directly, that's a
predictable side effect of not using the 'vmd' startup script to run it.
Its the seg fault that we have to debug here...

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 07:15:22PM +0100, james tomomi macdonald wrote:
>
> I am having problems installing the Mesa binary version of VMD 1.8 on
> redhat9. It immediately crashes and core dumps. Running the binary
> directly using the command:
>
> /usr/local/lib/vmd/vmd_LINUX
>
> i get the following error message:
>
> Info) Multithreading available, 2 CPUs detected.
> Info) OpenGL renderer: Mesa X11
> Info) Features: STENCIL RN MTX
> Info) Textures: 2-D (2048x2048), 3-D (2048x2048x2048), Multitexture (2)
> ERROR) Tcl startup error: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following
> directories:
> ERROR) /Projects/johns/tcl/lib_LINUX/lib/tcl8.3
> ERROR)
> ERROR)
> ERROR)
> ERROR) This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.
> ERROR) Tk startup error: invalid command name "tcl_findLibrary"
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> It previously ran fine on the same machine with redhat7.2.
>
> I would be very grateful if anyone could help.
>
> Thanks.
>
> James MacDonald.
> 

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