Re: [Closed REQ 5333]: I cannot run Geomview on my Alpha

["Daeron Meyer" <daeron>]

> 
> Message-Id: <199503311458.AA02687 at cameron.geom.umn.edu>
> To: software@geom
> Subject: I cannot run Geomview on my Alpha
> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 95 9:57:56 EST
> From: jrs at BACCHUS.NECTAR.CS.CMU.EDU
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I just downloaded the binary distribution of Geomview for DEC Alpha
> workstations.  The downloading, uncompressing, untaring, and installation
> all seemed to proceed well.  However, when I try to run geomview, the
> result is:
> 
> bacchus] geomview &
> [1] 16390
> bacchus] X Toolkit Warning: Representation size 4 must match superclass's to override baseWidth
> X Toolkit Warning: Representation size 8 must match superclass's to override iconPixmap
> X Toolkit Warning: Representation size 4 must match superclass's to override iconX
> Unaligned access pid=16390 <gvx> va=2d393538386f7cf9 pc=3ff802e026c ra=300001806cc type=ldq
> 
> [1]    Segmentation fault   geomview
> 
> 
> My DEC 3000 is running OSF/1 v. 2.0.  I don't imagine this information is
> enough to diagnose the problem, but if you have any suggestions, I'd love
> to hear them.

The Dec Alpha version of Geomview was compiled under OSF/1 v.1.3 with
hopes that it would then work with all future versions of that OS. It
does seem to work with OSF/1 v. 3.0 but I think we've heard of several
cases where it didn't work with v. 2.0. It is likely a problem with
some incompatible changes in the X or Motif shared libraries that
were fixed in later releases. You could either upgrade to OSF/1 v. 3.0
or if you have the compiler/development libraries installed you could try
compiling Geomview yourself. It shouldn't take to long to compile.

Daeron Meyer
daeron at geom.umn.edu