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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 13 2010 - 20:08:36 CDT
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Hi Ben,
I hadn't heard of this or run into it before. Does the behavior
you describe occur 100% of the time, or is it intermittent?
Cheers,
John Stone
vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 05:55:53PM -0400, Ben Roberts wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> With VMD 1.8.7 on my Macs (desktop or laptop, running up-to-date versions of Snow Leopard), I get odd behaviour when I try to quit using the keyboard shortcut Command-Q or the "VMD->Quit" command from the menu bar.
>
> Specifically, I get an error message with the text:
>
> Error:
>
> When I click for more details, it tells me,
>
> while executing
>
> "exit"
>
>
> This message does not appear if I quit VMD from the command line using the "exit" or "quit" commands, or if I do so using the File->Quit command in the "VMD Main" window (in which case I get a further confirmation dialog box).
>
> This problem presents itself in both the CUDA and non-CUDA versions.
>
> In addition, if I try to use "File->Close" from the menu bar, VMD crashes with a "bus error".
>
> Are either of these known problems, and are people aware of any workarounds?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
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