From: Peter A. M. <pa...@co...> - 2006-09-28 18:31:50
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> Thanks for the reply. "Irretrievably crashing" means that everything stops dead. The screen freezes, mouse/keyboard become unresponsive, the machine becomes unreachable (via ssh or even ping) from other > workstations. Background processes instantaneously halt. A 'proper' crash in other words! It does sound like an impressive crash. One things that sometimes works for me in cases like that is to have an open ssh session running from another machine running top (you've probably tried this already). It won't fix anything, but occaisonally helps figure out what the problem is. One option would be to try running through a stack of live-cd's of different distributions (boot, try to launch pymol and see if it freezes, and repeat). Again, this is more to figure out where the problem is than to fix it. Most likely it's something with the graphics drivers, but if chimera works alright then I'd keep an open mind as to what could be causing the problem (presumably they're both using the same opengl and x-windows drivers). Your best bet is probably to try out the different driver versions you were talking about (my normal approach would be to keep recompiling with as many options disabled as possible...no smp, multi-threading, shared libraries; but that would take some patience when the system freezes every time you get it wrong). Good luck, Pete Pete Meyer Fu Lab BMCB grad student Cornell University |