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From: Kasra Fattah (kasra.fattah_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Nov 07 2012 - 19:18:01 CST

Hi everybody,

After a recent update of my workstation Ubuntu 12.04, VMD causes the system
to freeze. After rebooting the system I can run VMD with no problem but if
I close it and reopen it several times (like 2 or 3 times) then it'll
lockup with following output of vmd
~$ vmd
rlwrap: Command not found.
Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.9.1 (February 1, 2012)
Info) http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
Info) Email questions and bug reports to vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
Info) Please include this reference in published work using VMD:
Info) Humphrey, W., Dalke, A. and Schulten, K., `VMD - Visual
Info) Molecular Dynamics', J. Molec. Graphics 1996, 14.1, 33-38.
Info) -------------------------------------------------------------
Info) Multithreading available, 8 CPUs detected.
Info) Free system memory: 29004MB (96%)
Info) Creating CUDA device pool and initializing hardware...

This can happen even after first try to run VMD if it's I try to run it
after a while of start up of the system. However, I still can ssh to the
system! My video card is a nvidia GTX 460 card and I updated the drivers of
the video card when I saw this behaviour but it didn't solve the problem, I
also tried to downgrade the xserver-xorg-core to see if it's causing the
problem but that even didn't solve it. Would you please help how I can
solve this issue.

Thank you,
Kasra.