From: Tru Huynh (tru_at_pasteur.fr)
Date: Thu Dec 13 2012 - 11:41:46 CST

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 08:59:37AM -0600, John Stone wrote:
> Tru,
> What happens if you run VMD like this:
> vmd -debug
>
> Type "run" at the gdb prompt. When it crashes, type "where"
> and report the results back here.
>
[tru_at_yippy ~]$ vmd -debug
***
*** Running VMD in debugger, type 'run' at debugger prompt
***
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Reading symbols from /c5/shared/vmd/vmd-1.9.1/vmd_LINUXAMD64...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /c5/shared/vmd/vmd-1.9.1/vmd_LINUXAMD64
warning: no loadable sections found in added symbol-file system-supplied DSO at 0x2aaaaaaab000
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
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, 16 CPUs detected.
Info) Free system memory: 128549MB (99%)
Info) Creating CUDA device pool and initializing hardware...
[New Thread 0x40a00940 (LWP 12129)]
[New Thread 0x41401940 (LWP 12130)]
[New Thread 0x41e02940 (LWP 12131)]
[New Thread 0x42803940 (LWP 12132)]
[New Thread 0x43204940 (LWP 12133)]
[New Thread 0x43c05940 (LWP 12134)]
[New Thread 0x44606940 (LWP 12135)]
[New Thread 0x45007940 (LWP 12136)]
CUDA error: invalid device symbol, CUDAClearDevice.cu line 62
CUDA error: invalid device symbol, CUDAClearDevice.cu line 62
CUDA error: invalid device symbol, CUDAClearDevice.cu line 62
CUDA error: invalid device symbol, CUDAClearDevice.cu line 62
Info) Detected 4 available CUDA accelerators:
Info) [0] GeForce GTX 680 8 SM_3.0 @ 1.14 GHz, 4.0GB RAM, OIO, ZCP
Info) [1] GeForce GTX 680 8 SM_3.0 @ 1.14 GHz, 4.0GB RAM, OIO, ZCP
Info) [2] GeForce GTX 680 8 SM_3.0 @ 1.14 GHz, 4.0GB RAM, OIO, ZCP
Info) [3] GeForce GTX 680 8 SM_3.0 @ 1.14 GHz, 4.0GB RAM, OIO, ZCP
Warning) Detected X11 'Composite' extension: if incorrect display occurs
Warning) try disabling this optional X server feature.
Info) OpenGL renderer: GeForce 210/PCI/SSE2
Info) Features: STENCIL MSAA(4) MDE MTX NPOT PP PS GLSL(OVFG)
XRequest.143: BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length error) 0x2200046
Warning) GPU driver failed to compile shader:
Warning) /c5/shared/vmd/vmd-1.9.1/shaders/vmd
Warning) This GPU/driver is buggy, or doesn't fully implement GLSL.
Warning) Set environment variable VMDGLSLVERBOSE for more info.
Info) GLSL rendering mode is NOT available.
Info) Textures: 2-D (8192x8192), 3-D (2048x2048x2048), Multitexture (4)

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0000000000a934b4 in __intel_ssse3_rep_memcpy ()
(gdb) where
#0 0x0000000000a934b4 in __intel_ssse3_rep_memcpy ()
#1 0x0000000000a8ae86 in _intel_fast_memcpy.P ()
#2 0x00000000005fe9ed in PluginMgr::register_cb(void*, vmdplugin_t*) ()
#3 0x00000000009b0103 in molfile_babelplugin_register ()
#4 0x00000000005fe0fb in PluginMgr::load_static_plugins() ()
#5 0x000000000065e493 in VMDApp::VMDinit(int, char**, char const*, int*, int*)
    ()
#6 0x000000000068729d in main ()
(gdb)

Cheers,

Tru

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