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David,

check if your personal environment (login scripts, paths, etc...) is the same on your home machine and the other machines. Looks as if there might be a difference. What does the coot console say, any error messages or hints? 

HTH

	Carsten

> -----Original Message-----
> From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
> David Roberts
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 2:39 PM
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> Subject: [ccp4bb] coot question for any/all?
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> So sorry to post this here but I'm at wits end and am just 
> hoping that 
> somebody here has had a similar problem (and subsequent fix). 
>  Here goes.
> 
> I have 7 systems, close to identical, all running FC7.  For 
> all, I used 
> the autobuild script on the ccp4 website to generate the entire ccp4 
> package (including coot0.3.1).  As I don't want to deal with network 
> problems, I install the programs on every computer following the same 
> build methods.  I know I could do this differently, but for 
> now I don't 
> want to change methods.
> 
> Now, everything appears to be running normally with no 
> issues.  However, 
> I just recently tried building a model from scratch, using the 
> baton-mode and then CAatoms - > mainchain button.  One one computer, 
> this works great, and I can build, combine fragments, renumber, blah 
> blah blah and get a structure.  For the other 6 machines, I 
> can do the 
> baton mode (and it seems to work), but when I hit the CA - > 
> mainchain 
> button, nothing happens (it just spins for a few seconds then 
> appears to 
> work but there are no new atoms on the screen).
> 
> I tried downloading the newest ccp4 with no luck, and also the newest 
> coot (from the coot website).  They seem to run fine, but again get 
> stalled when I try to do what I state above.  It just doesn't work 
> (though coot appears to be working normally - I can display 
> molecules/maps and move things around and such).
> 
> The problem is, I don't even know where to start here.  I 
> would gladly 
> replace/uninstall/reinstall, but what is it that is broken and needs 
> fixing?  Like I said, I tried several different reinstalls 
> today with no 
> luck at all (even the new coot gave the same problem).  I went to the 
> coot faq and did the soft-link of the reference-libraries 
> (which is an 
> old fix but you never know) and it had no effect. 
> 
> I will say the one machine that is working is my one at home, 
> and so I 
> can't simply share that directory via nfs and see if it works on the 
> other machines (not trivial).  All were built the same way, but 
> obviously I missed a file/link or something that is not allowing this 
> important part of the program to work.
> 
> Any helpful tips?
> 
> Thanks so much.
> 
> Dave Roberts
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