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Stephen, I'll have a test distribution of 5.9.2 on the web site next week. I'll let you know when its up. Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support > Thanks for your suggestions - as usual they are very helpful. > > I think I have found most of my problem, but if we could verify with the > progress 5.9.2, it would be appreciated. > > I was working in datatype.tbl and had commented out some definitions which > included the line defining VGF. > > I think that may have been the cause of our segmentation fault problems. > > We are upgrading the kernel and switch compilers: > > The Make section that works on the extlibs was using a hard definition for > gcc and since we had gcc 3.3.3 and version 3.2.3 installed, there was more > confusion. > > After switching the kernel and the compiler, we got clean compiles and after > correcting my change to datatype.tbl we no longer get the segmentation > fault. > > gcc -v > Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.3/specs > Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man > --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix > --disable-checking --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit > --enable-languages=c,c++,f77 --disable-libgcj --host=i386-redhat-linux > Thread model: posix > gcc version 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-47.fc4) > > uname -r > 2.6.16-1.2069_FC4 > > Regards, > > Stephen Sinnis > Pelmorex Media Inc > Tel: (905) 829-1159 (1379) > Fax: (905) 829-5800 > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: XBI-500547 Department: Support GEMPAK Priority: Critical Status: Closed