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From: Valentina Erastova (valentina_erastova_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Mon Aug 05 2013 - 09:50:05 CDT

I recently got a new Mac OS 10.8 and it seems no longer to be able to X11 vmd across. I never had problems with my old 10.6, so obviously it is a Mac issue, rather than VMD.

So there are 2 options of what happens:

- if I run vmd remotely on other Mac 10.8.x:
I get all the output on the terminal, but not graphics

- if I run on linux cluster:
It crashes with the following

/usr/bin/which: no rlwrap in (/usr/local/Cluster-Apps/sge/current/bin/lx24-amd64:/usr/local/Cluster-Apps/sge/current/bin/lx24-amd64:/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/Cluster-Apps/sge/6.1u6/bin/lx24-amd64:/usr/local/Cluster-Apps/pgi/9.0.4/linux86-64/9.0-4/bin:/usr/local/Cluster-Apps/vmd/1.8.7/bin)
Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.8.7 (August 1, 2009)
Info) http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
Info) Email questions and bug reports to vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
Info) Please include this reference in published work using VMD:
Info) Humphrey, W., Dalke, A. and Schulten, K., `VMD - Visual
Info) Molecular Dynamics', J. Molec. Graphics 1996, 14.1, 33-38.
Info) -------------------------------------------------------------
Info) Multithreading available, 8 CPUs detected.
Info) Free system memory: 90096MB (93%)
Info) No CUDA accelerator devices available.
/usr/local/Cluster-Apps/vmd/1.8.7/vmd_LINUXAMD64: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1: undefined symbol: _XGetRequest

I have tested it on other Macs 10.8 and it seems to be a general issue, has anyone found a way to overcome it?

Thank you,
Valentina