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Re: IDL 6.4 seg-faults when drawing (Solaris-8) [message #57180 is a reply to message #57179]

Tue, 04 December 2007 08:36

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Jonathan Joseph writes:

> I'm currently running IDL 6.4 on Solaris 8. I just installed the most
> recent recommended patch cluster for Solaris 8 (to fix an unrelated
> issue), and now when I run IDL, if I attemp any window drawing
> operation, IDL dies with a segmentation fault.
>
> I'm hesitant about upgrading to IDL 7.0 right now to see if this fixes
> the problem. I'm even more hesitant about backing out the entire patch
> cluster (which seems to have fixed the the other problem).
>
> I have contacted both Sun and ITT, but in the meanwhile, if anyone has
> observed any similar problems, or has any advice, I'm all ears.
>
> I still have two other solaris-8 boxes that I have not yet patched, and
> IDL still works fine on those - but the one I did patch is our real
> work-horse machine.

Sounds like this problem rearing its ugly head again:

http://www.dfanning.com/misc_tips/segfault.html

Cheers,

David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/

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