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Re: Bus error in IDL 6.3 on Mac OS X [message #65201 is a reply to message #65198]

Mon, 16 February 2009 05:12

ben.bighair
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Registered: April 2007

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On Feb 15, 7:55 pm, Raul <rmjuber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am currently using IDL6.2 on a Mac OSX 10.4.11 and for long I have
> been using programs with the tv command without problems, but now when
> I try to run them, IDL crashes and exits with a "bus error". I looked
> on Google for some info about this and I came across a website
> describing "Bus error in IDL 6.3 on Mac OS X". After reading it I
> checked the issue of my display variable. I only have one monitor and
> the display variable is :0.0 (and I am still using IDL 6.2)
>
> This behavior started on friday (2/13/09) after I installed the
> following software updates:
> - Java for Mac OS X 10.4, Release 8 v1.0
> - Security Update 2009-001 (PowerPC) v1.0
>
> Could these updates have change something affecting my IDL6.2
> installation? Has somebody else experience this? Does anybody knows if
> there is a easy way to fix this?

Hi,

I think this tip from David Fanning's ever-useful site might be
helpful.

http://www.dfanning.com/tips/maccrash.html

The syntax of the display variable seemed (to me) to be very tricky
for IDL 6.3. I have the same OS and IDL version as you and things
work fine. My display variable looks like...

setenv DISPLAY :0

Cheers,
Ben

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		Re: Bus error in IDL 6.3 on Mac OS X By: Raul on Mon, 16 February 2009 15:01
		Re: Bus error in IDL 6.3 on Mac OS X By: Christopher Thom on Mon, 16 February 2009 12:07
		Re: Bus error in IDL 6.3 on Mac OS X By: Raul on Mon, 16 February 2009 11:33
		Re: Bus error in IDL 6.3 on Mac OS X By: jschwab@gmail.com on Mon, 16 February 2009 08:11
		Re: Bus error in IDL 6.3 on Mac OS X By: Carsten Lechte on Mon, 16 February 2009 08:04
		Re: Bus error in IDL 6.3 on Mac OS X By: jschwab@gmail.com on Mon, 16 February 2009 07:43
		Re: Bus error in IDL 6.3 on Mac OS X By: jschwab@gmail.com on Mon, 16 February 2009 07:38
		Re: Bus error in IDL 6.3 on Mac OS X By: ben.bighair on Mon, 16 February 2009 05:12
		Re: Bus error in IDL 6.3 on Mac OS X By: stephan on Tue, 17 February 2009 09:40
		Re: Bus error in IDL 6.3 on Mac OS X By: Britt on Tue, 24 February 2009 11:11

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