I've had some problems getting recent versions of Pointless to link in a
portable way, due to a new call into the CCP4 library, & this can cause
segfaults on some systems. I keep hoping someone will tel me how to get
round this (a ccp4 routine calls getpwid which apparently cannot be
static)
You could try
ftp://ftp.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/pub/pre/pointless-1.2.16.linux
to see if that behaves better
If it's going to crash, it will crash immediately on starting from the
command line
Phil
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 14:39 +0000, Andrew Purkiss-Trew wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> I am having a problem with running the latest version of pointless
> (1.2.15) via ccp4i. This is with the new GUI task.
>
> The logfile has the following, rather unhelpful information:
> <SNIP>
>
> ***************************************************************************
> * Information from CCP4Interface script
> ***************************************************************************
> The program run with command: pointless
> has failed with error message
> child killed: segmentation violation
> ***************************************************************************
>
>
> #CCP4I TERMINATION STATUS 0 "child killed: segmentation violation"
> #CCP4I TERMINATION TIME 27 Mar 2008 14:16:02
> #CCP4I MESSAGE Task failed
>
>
>
> The program runs fine with the equivalent command line:
>
> pointless HKLIN Plate2_B6_001.mtz
>
>
> This is happening on both 32 and 64 bit linux machines, running either
> Fedora Core or SuSE.
>
> I have not, yet, recompiled the program from source, but that is next on
> the list. Has anyone else had this problem?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Andrew Purkiss-Trew
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