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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue May 18 2010 - 22:18:28 CDT

Rob,
  This does not cause any crash when I try it locally.
Try running VMD with "vmd -debug" with your normal LANG
setting and do a stack traceback in gdb. If you can get
a traceback, we can figure out what is going wrong there.
My guess is that this is most likely an issue with Tcl,
or a difference in the behavior of your C runtime library's
internationalization functionality vs. RHEL4. What distribution
are you running?

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 05:33:06PM -0700, Rob wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have installed latest VMD (1.8.7) on a Linux 32bits PC.
>
> Vmd almost immediately crashes when fired up.
> Reason is my "unusual" setting of LANG to "en_US.UTF-8".
>
> When I manually set LANG to "C" and then start vmd,
> everything works fine.....
>
> I now have modified the vmd script: before the actual executable
> is called, I added the line "setenv LANG C".
>
> I wonder if that should be added by default for a next release
> (if not, then this LANG settings problem needs to be resolved!).
>
> Regards,
> Rob.
>
>
> 

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