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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed May 19 2010 - 08:41:47 CDT

Bogdan,
  Can you run vmd -debug and do a traceback as I asked Rob yesterday?
I don't get any crash when I change LANG settings on RHEL4, so this must
vary by linux distribution.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 03:34:38PM +0200, Bogdan Costescu wrote:
> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Rob <spamrefuse_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I have installed latest VMD (1.8.7) on a Linux 32bits PC.
>
> Same happens with Fedora 11 on a x86_64 with input method set up.
>
> > Vmd almost immediately crashes when fired up.
> > Reason is my "unusual" setting of LANG to "en_US.UTF-8".
>
> This is not unusual at all. We use it as well and I think that it is
> the default for the modern distributions.
>
> > When I manually set LANG to "C" and then start vmd,
> > everything works fine.....
>
> Do you have any input methods set for non-ascii characters (f.e.
> chinese) ? On a set of workstations with the exact same setup
> (automatically installed and configured), if the input method is set
> up by the user, VMD will crash and the setting of LANG to C fixes it;
> if the input method is not set, then VMD will work with the default
> LANG (en_US.UTF-8).
>
> > (if not, then this LANG settings problem needs to be resolved!).
>
> Oh, well, easier said than done...
>
> Bogdan 

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