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segmentation fault (Mandrake)

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  • 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


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