segmentation fault (Mandrake)
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg43369] segmentation fault (Mandrake)
- From: mamlo at pearson.math.tu-clausthal.de (Marco Loskamp)
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 07:13:49 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Clausthal University of Technology
- Reply-to: mamlo at math.tu-clausthal.de
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi, I have just installed Mathematica for students 4.2 on Mandrake 9.1. The installation worked without errors, and all parts of the distribution are in the folder they're supposed to be. However, the binaries "math" and "mathematica" exit with a "segmentation fault" after(!) echoing the banner: me@mycomputer:~ > math Mathematica 4.2 for Linux Copyright 1988-2002 Wolfram Research, Inc. Segmentation fault me@mycomputer:~ > Does anyone know anything about this problem? I did already delete the entire distribution from /usr/local/Wolfram, and the binaries in /usr/local/bin and the program /usr/bin/mcc (all locations are the default!), and re-installed it (three times in total). The only problem I encountered was that the program "uncompress" didn't exist. I solved this problem by linking "/bin/uncompress" to "/bin/gunzip", which worked without error-message. One more info: the exact same message (quoted above) was the reason why I re-installed Mathematica; so, it doesn't seem to be a problem of the re- installation, but rather of the binary under my current kernel (2.4.21-0.13mdk). Please answer directly to "loskamp at math.wisc.edu" (I'm not a regular reader of this newsgroup, sorry). Thanks a lot! Marco