From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_cmm.chem.upenn.edu)
Date: Mon May 28 2007 - 13:17:22 CDT

On Mon, 28 May 2007, Philippe Roche wrote:

philippe,

this is a know problem (of the kernel on your machine). see:
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/current/linuxrelnotes.html

salut,
   axel.

PR> Dear all,
PR> I have just installed vmd-1.8.6 on a LINUX system and it crashes when I
PR> load a pdb file.
PR> The problem seems to come from the determination of bond structure since
PR> VMD works fine when I load both a PSF file and a PDB file.
PR> If I run 'mol bondsrecalc 0' after loading the PSF and PDB files it
PR> crashes again.
PR> (although it works in the vmd text mode (with 'vmd -dispdev text').
PR>
PR> I have tried vmd -debug mode and I get this message.
PR>
PR> Info) Determining bond structure from distance search ...
PR> [New Thread 1436548016 (LWP 7454)]
PR> [Thread 1436548016 (LWP 7454) exited]
PR> Info) Bond count: 65
PR>
PR> Any suggestion ?
PR>
PR> Cheers
PR>
PR> Philippe
PR>
PR> PS : VMD-1.8.5 works on the same machine
PR>
PR>
PR>

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