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20010102: NAWIPS on Athlon/Mandrake box

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  • Subject: 20010102: NAWIPS on Athlon/Mandrake box
  • Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 10:44:49 -0700
Bob,

If he is running a binary release, and only GUIs don't work,
then it sounds like there might be a problem with MOTIF.
This could be a problem with different X servers, or local MOTIF conflict.
Or, could be a font server issue if he doesn't have all the fonts installed on
the system that MOTIF wants to use. Or, copuld be as simple as not having
enough resources for large arraysa in some of those programs.

If he is building locally, then I'd look at what MOTIF he was using.

I have found that the deluxe edition of RedHat 7.x now supplies 
"openMotif" as a package. We don't have this installed yet, but will
test it as soon as we can buy it. If this works, then more sites will be able to
build under Linux locally. The "lesstif" 0.xx distribution from GNU is
definitely not the answer since they do not provide the full MOTIF
functionality. Some library calls only are stubs, and don't do anything.

Best thing to do would be to run the programs under gdb to see where
the program is crashing.

Steve

On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Bob Rozumalski wrote:

> 
> 
> Steve,
> 
> Have you have any questions/problems running NAWIPS on various
> combinations of CPU and linux distributions?  The SOO in Buffalo
> is trying to run NAWIPS on an Athlon machine running Mandrake
> LINUX 7.2 (kernel 2.2.x).  NAWIPS runs fine on both Celeron and
> PIII machines with Mandrake 7.2, but not with the Athlon CPU.
> From what he has said, most programs run except for GARP and
> NSHARP, but I don't know the symptoms of the failure.
> 
> Has anybody gotten NAWIPS to run with the athlon CPU under any
> LINUX distribution?
> 
> Bob
> 
>