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From: Rohit Goswami (haozeke_at_yandex.com)
Date: Fri Jun 19 2015 - 09:23:27 CDT

Same error in vmd. locale now produces (as expected)

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=C

19.06.2015, 19:51, "John Stone" <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>:
> What happens if you use "C" for LC_ALL?
>
> Cheers,
> ššJohn Stone
> ššvmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 07:38:50PM +0530, Rohit Goswami wrote:
>> šWell, the error pops up on start-up without anything being run...
>> šThe locale isn't set explicitly, but the LANG variable is set to en_US.UTF-8
>> šWhat should the locale be set as?
>> šOn the terminal locale returns the following
>> šLANG=en_US.UTF-8
>> šLC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
>> šLC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
>> šLC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
>> šLC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
>> šLC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
>> šLC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
>> šLC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
>> šLC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
>> šLC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
>> šLC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
>> šLC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
>> šLC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
>> šLC_ALL=
>>
>> šExporting LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" doesn't fix the problem either.
>> šThanks
>>
>> š19.06.2015, 19:12, "John Stone" <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>:
>> š> Hi,
>> š> ššI searched the code for that error, and it appears to be coming from
>> š> the PME potential GUI plugin. I'm wondering if you have your LOCALE
>> š> set to something unusual that is causing problems for that code?
>> š>
>> š> Does this error arise during VMD startup, or after you do something
>> š> specific in the program?
>> š>
>> š> Cheers,
>> š> ššJohn Stone
>> š> ššvmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>> š>
>> š> On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 04:06:35PM +0530, Rohit Goswami wrote:
>> š>> šOn every vmd start, I'm getting this persistent error, inspite of not using the PME electrostatics functions at all. I'm running an archlinux 64-bit machine with vmd 1.9.2
>> š>>
>> š>> šPME Electrostatics Error
>> š>>
>> š>> šError updating the cell information:
>> š>> šmissing operand at _@_
>> š>> šin expression ".... + 10.*0. + 0.*10. + _@_*"
>> š>
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>
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> NIH Center for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
> Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Phone: 217-244-3349
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/