From: Dr. Daniel James White PhD (dan_at_chalkie.org.uk)
Date: Fri Jan 07 2005 - 06:13:04 CST

Hi axel,

below is what you requested,

I see it says
ERROR) Could not read the vmd initialization file -
ERROR) source {/usr/local/lib/vmd/scripts/vmd/vmdinit.tcl}

this file is there, and is readable! permissions are 644,
so that is odd.......

Dan

/usr/local/lib/vmd/vmd_LINUX
bash-3.00$ ldd /usr/local/lib/vmd/vmd_LINUX
         libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 (0x00ccc000)
         libGLU.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.so.1 (0x00ae0000)
         libXi.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x00a72000)
         libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x00758000)
         libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x0066d000)
         libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00667000)
         libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00b9f000)
         libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x00642000)
         libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x00516000)
         libGLcore.so.1 => /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 (0x058c8000)
         libnvidia-tls.so.1 => /usr/lib/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.1
(0x004ad000)
         libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x00748000)
         libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00112000)
         libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x0088b000)
         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x004fd000)
bash-3.00$ /usr/local/lib/vmd/vmd_LINUX -dispdev none
Info) VMD for LINUX, version 1.8.2 (December 4, 2003)
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, 1 CPU detected.
ERROR) VMDDIR undefined, startup failure likely.
ERROR) Could not read the vmd initialization file -
ERROR) source {/usr/local/lib/vmd/scripts/vmd/vmdinit.tcl}
ERROR)
ERROR) The VMDDIR environment variable is set by the startup
ERROR) script and should point to the top of the VMD hierarchy.
ERROR) VMD will continue with limited functionality.
vmd > quit
Info) VMD for LINUX, version 1.8.2 (December 4, 2003)
Info) Exiting normally.

On 7 Jan 2005, at 13:40, Axel Kohlmeyer wrote:

>
>>>> "DW" == Daniel James White PhD <Dr.> writes:
>
> DW> Hi Axel,
>
> DW> I'm afraid that didn't work,
> DW> still the same error,
>
> hmmm. could you please try:
>
> 1) checking for missing shared libraries by:
>
> ldd ./vmd_LINUX
>
> 2) running the vmd_LINUX binary directly by:
>
> ./vmd_LINUX -dispdev none
>
> and post the output of that.
>
>
> axel.
>
>
> DW> cheers
>
> DW> Dan
> [...]
>
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>
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>
>
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