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Re: IDL crashing badly on my solaris 8 system [message #26071 is a reply to message #26062]

Mon, 30 July 2001 12:04

Liam E. Gumley
Messages: 378
Registered: January 2000

Senior Member

Jonathan Joseph wrote:
> On 2000/11/07 Peter Clinch wrote:
>
>>> Has anyone had any problems with IDL 5.4 stability?
>>
>> Just installed it. Looked in the What's New book, and XVOLUME and XROI
>> look like useful thingies, so I fire them up with the example code in
>> the book, and after several pages of font errors IDL crashes out with a
>> core dump. Hey ho...
>>
>> Waiting for RSI to get back to me, will probably nudge them later
>> today. So far, not a Big Win!
>>
>> That's on Solaris 8/SPARC on an Ultra 30.
>
> I couldn't find any posted solution to peter's problem.
> I am seeing what may be a similar problem. While I haven't
> personally seen a bunch of font errors printed out, one of
> our student's has - probably the way I caused the crash caused
> the window to be obscured so I could not read the errors.
> I could not check for errors afterwards, because the crash
> not only kills IDL, but it kills the whole CDE session.
>
> I can cause this crash easily and consistently by firing up
> the IDL demo:
>
> IDL> demo
>
> Then clicking on the "visualization" button then clicking on
> the "flythrough" button. A big mostly blank window pops up, then
> shortly thereafter, my CDE session terminates.
>
> Here's my system info.
>
> # uname -a
> SunOS cayman 5.8 Generic_108528-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000
>
> Can anyone offer any suggestions?

Get in touch with RSI tech support:

mailto:support@researchsystems.com

I think a patch is required from Sun to fix a problem with Solaris.

Cheers,
Liam.
Practical IDL Programming
http://www.gumley.com/

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		Re: IDL crashing badly on my solaris 8 system By: Jonathan Joseph on Wed, 01 August 2001 13:24
		Re: IDL crashing badly on my solaris 8 system By: david[2] on Wed, 01 August 2001 12:56
		Re: IDL crashing badly on my solaris 8 system By: Jonathan Joseph on Wed, 01 August 2001 12:44
		Re: IDL crashing badly on my solaris 8 system By: Jonathan Joseph on Wed, 01 August 2001 10:46
		Re: IDL crashing badly on my solaris 8 system By: Peter Clinch on Tue, 31 July 2001 02:17
		Re: IDL crashing badly on my solaris 8 system By: Liam E. Gumley on Mon, 30 July 2001 12:04

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