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
