Re: Mathematica 4.2 and Mandrake 9.2
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- Subject: [mg44856] Re: Mathematica 4.2 and Mandrake 9.2
- From: Tom Compton <comptont at concentric.net>
- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 03:04:13 -0500 (EST)
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I have had a problem similar to what Ronald Bruck described. Mathematica version 4.2 for Linux was running under Redhat 6.2. I updated the OS to Redhat 9. Version 4.2 continued to run. I installed version 5.0, and it ran as well. Something changed (don't know what). Now version 4.2 gives segmentation faults immediately after it starts. I reinstalled version 4.2 but it continues to give segmentation faults. I tried Alain Cochard's suggestion below, but it did not solve the problem. Any ideas? Tom Compton Alain Cochard wrote: > 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 >