From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 09 2010 - 08:12:37 CST

Chris,
  I will look into this today and let you know what I find.
No need to send me a separate email, as I read all of the VMD-L
postings. :-)

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 09:47:41AM +0000, Christopher McLean wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback Axel,
>
>
>
> The user is on:
>
> . Kernel: 2.6.31-19-generic-pae (i686)
>
> . Distro: Ubuntu 9.10
>
> . VMD for LINUX, version 1.8.7 (August 1, 2009)
>
>
>
> It is not possible at this moment to move this user to another
> environment, although we could test dev builds on this machine if needed.
> Should a bug report be filed for this or is this list monitored by the
> devs? Am happy to provide any further information as needed
>
>
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
>
> > From: Axel Kohlmeyer [mailto:akohlmey_at_gmail.com]
>
> > Sent: 08 February 2010 17:48
>
> > To: Christopher McLean
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> > Cc: 'vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu'
>
> > Subject: Re: vmd-l: Blank thumbnails and non-working snapshots
>
> >
>
> > On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 15:55 +0000, Christopher McLean wrote:
>
> > > Hi,
>
> >
>
> > hi chris,
>
> >
>
> > > One of our students is having issues with the ViewMaster plugin. When
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> > > snapshots are taken, and the project saved, upon reloading, the
>
> > > thumbnails are blank and clicking one of the thumbnails does not
>
> > > reload the view. The thumbnails look fine upon creation before
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> > > save/reload.
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> >
>
> > confirmed. i see the same thing here on a fedora 12 x86_64 machine
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> > with the current development code. after reloading the state, some
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> > more things seem to be broken. like new representations can only be
>
> > created for lines and points.
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> >
>
> > unfortunately, i cannot give any pointers as to how to resolve this.
>
> > it looks like something deep inside of VMD is going wrong. using
>
> > valgrind doesn't show anything unusual.
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> >
>
> > can you please check what platform your user is using, and perhaps
>
> > have him or her try a different platform? that could provide a hint
>
> > where to look.
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> >
>
> > thanks,
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> > axel.
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> > >
>
> > > Any help or pointers would be appreciated.
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> > >
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> > >
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> > >
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> > > Regards
>
> > >
>
> > >
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> > >
>
> > > Chris
>
> > >
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> > >
>
> > >

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