Re: Mathematica 4.2 and Mandrake 9.2
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- Subject: [mg44826] Re: Mathematica 4.2 and Mandrake 9.2
- From: Alain Cochard <al2 at noos.fr>
- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 04:24:07 -0500 (EST)
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Ronald Bruck <bruck at math.usc.edu> writes: > Oh, dear. I upgraded from Mandrake 9.0 to Mandrake 9.2--well, I > completely reformatted the drives and installed fresh, I don't trust > updaters--then reinstalled Mathematica 4.2, and... > > All I get are segmentation faults. (When I execute "math", the > command-line version, I do get a copyright notice, THEN a segmentation > fault.) > > I remember having trouble when upgrading to 9.0: the utility > "uncompress" isn't in Mandrake, and the Mathematica installer uses it. > Finding it STILL isn't in Mandrake (how stupid of MandrakeSoft--it's a > heritage UNIX app and SHOULD be in every U**X distribution) I installed > it in /bin (then had to do the whole thing over again, because I forgot > to make it executable). > > Doesn't change Mathematica's mind. The installer runs without error > messages, but the program still segfaults when I try to start it. > > Any ideas what could be wrong and how to fix it? A library name > change, n'est-ce pas? > > --Ron Bruck > You mean a library version change? If so, a good candidate would be glibc. It has changed between the last of the 8.x redhat distros and redhat9. And it was still the old version which was in Mandrake 9.1, if my memory is correct, so I suspect it changed for Mandrake 9.2. The new glibc version generates problems similar to the one you are reporting in various softwares I'm using with redhat9. For example, for realplayer, the cure, as I found on the web, was to do something like export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 ; /usr/X11R6/bin/realplay file.rm So you could try export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 ; math (you might need to do LD_ASSUME_KERNEL= afterward, to reset) For the the (gratis) intel fortran compiler, it was another, much more complicated cure. You can find the related info by Googling for 'intel fortran compiler (or ifc) glibc redhat9 (or RH9)' By the way, the new glibc version is 2.3.2. AC