[Qucs-help] qucs 0.10, "getting started" example won't simulate

[Paul K. <kom...@gm...>]

Before I post my question, I want to point out that the links people
include in the qucs mailing lists should probably include the
rel=nofollow attribute, to avoid elevating the reputation of the
pointed-to sites.  I expect that would reduce the amount of spam you
are seeing, since spammers wouldn't benefit from their posts.  Not
sure if that's under your control, or if sourceforge's control.

Question: I have tried a couple times to follow the steps in the
"getting started" guide for qucs, making a simple project with a
voltage divider schematic and labeling the wire between the two
resitors.  Both times, when I hit "simulate", I get the following
messages:

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Starting new simulation on Sat 25. Nov 2006 at 00:56:59

creating netlist... done.
parsing netlist...
checking netlist...

Errors occured during simulation on Sat 25. Nov 2006 at 00:56:59
Aborted.
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I haven't found any more logging messages anywhere.  I tried running
qucs --help to find some debug verbosity params, but qucs seems to
ignore command-line args and start the gui.

FWIW, I compiled qucs since I'm running gentoo (with flags -O2
-march=athlon64), instead of downloading a binary.

Anyone have any ideas what I am doing wrong?

-Paul