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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 06 2006 - 14:37:55 CDT

Ravi,
  I've never seen or heard of this sort of problem before, to me that
sounds like some sort of memory corruption issue. Do you have a test
case that reproduces the problem with high probability? As you can imagine,
thousands of VMD users perform the operations you're describing. The only
question is what specific representations they use and what other things
they might be doing with their structures. Which platform are you running on?
I actually wonder if it's a system level runtime library issue of some kind.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 01:20:28PM -0700, Ravinder Abrol wrote:
> Hi All,
> This problem doesn't occur consistently, so I don't know how to fix it.
>
> With a fresh VMD start, when I load a protein with helices, all helices
> are displayed correctly using all graphical representations. After a few
> interations of deleting molecules and loading new molecules, a few of the
> helices (not all) stop being displayed (almost randomly) in [Trace to
> NewCartoon] representations. [Line to Licorice] representations display
> fine. When I close VMD and start a fresh session, everything is ok again.
> I have encountered this problem in both VMD1.8.4 and VMD1.8.5. I haven't
> tried older versions for this.
>
> Any solutions will be appreciated.
> Thanks in advance,
> Ravi 

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