Hi, I'm having some trouble with PyMOL on my SGI's. When we upgraded from (I think) 6.5.11 to 6.5.20m, things stopped working for me. Here's what we have right now:
<oregano> mlerner: uname -aR IRIX64 oregano 6.5 6.5.20m 04091957 IP30 We also upgraded the compilers, and we're now using this: <oregano> mlerner: cc -version MIPSpro Compilers: Version 7.3.1.3m <oregano> mlerner: /usr/freeware/bin/gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/freeware/lib/gcc-lib/mips-sgi-irix6.5/3.3/specs Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr/freeware --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --disable-shared --enable-threads --enable-haifa --enable-libgcj --disable-c-mbchar Thread model: single gcc version 3.3 In case this is relevant, here's the hardware setup: <oregano> mlerner: hinv 2 360 MHZ IP30 Processors CPU: MIPS R12000 Processor Chip Revision: 3.5 FPU: MIPS R12010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0 Main memory size: 512 Mbytes Xbow ASIC: Revision 1.4 Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes Data cache size: 32 Kbytes Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 2 Mbytes Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0 Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty1 IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty2 IOC3 parallel port: plp1 Graphics board: V6 Integral Fast Ethernet: ef0, version 1, pci 2 Iris Audio Processor: version RAD revision 12.0, number 1 I downloaded pymol-0_92-bin-irix65-r10k.tar today, and when I run pymol.com, both windows (the Viewer window and the Tk window) show up and look good. The Tk window seems to work (I can use the menus to load a pdb file, etc.), but the Viewer window is completely unresponsive. The display never updates, and it doesn't seem to notice any key presses or mouse clicks. If I recall correctly, this breakage happened when we upgraded. We were using PyMOL 0.86 at the time, and it just stopped working. I downloaded 0.90 and it didn't work either. I tried compiling 0.90 from source and had the same result (i.e. I was able to compile everything, but the Viewer window was unresponsive). Clearly, I should have asked about this earlier, but I was pretty busy, and I hoped that things would magically fix themselves with the next release :). Anyway, does anyone have any idea what could be wrong? I'll be glad to recompile things and try out various fixes, but I don't quite know where to start. It's possible that I used an older gcc (2.8.1) when I tried to compile PyMOL before, so maybe I should just try recompiling, but I'm not sure that's the problem. Thanks, -michael -- Michael Lerner
