[ REQ 5617]: Re: Geomview crashes on Sun4

[khince at miu.edu]

Hi,

Sometime ago I wrote to you about installing Geomview on
our Sun4...full text below (including reply from Stuart).

Well I just tried a complete new install again but the same
thing happens. I installed both Geomview v1.5 and the
1.5patch for the Sun4 in my own user area, then I changed
into Geomview directory and tried to run it, but I get a

   Bad System Call (core dumped)

error.

The Sun is a Sun4 running Solaris 2.2 and OpenWindows.

Any help greatly appreciated

Ken

>> I need some help installing Geomview on a Sun 4!
>> It just crashes with a core dump?
>
>Hmm, that's funny.  Do you have geomview version 1.5?
>Could you say something about your Sun, e.g. what operating system
>version is it running?
>
>One thing to keep in mind: the default Sun4 geomview doesn't seem to
>work well with Sun's Open Windows X server.  So if you run Open Windows,
>also fetch
>        pub/software/geomview/geomview-1.5.0-sun4-patch1.tar.Z (or .gz)
>from geom.umn.edu.  It has an updated version of the geomview binary (gvx).
>
>Also, generally a better place to send technical questions like this
>is to software@geom.umn.edu rather than to geomview-users.  The latter is
>a moderated list, and only things which seem relevant to the general
>community of users get sent there.