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From: David Kastner (davidwkastner_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon May 10 2021 - 14:58:23 CDT

Hi john,

*sw_vers:*
ProductName: macOS
ProductVersion: 11.3
BuildVersion: 20E232

*CPU features:*

Info) CPU features: SSE2 SSE4.1 AVX AVX2 FMA F16 HT

*Error Message:*

/Applications/VMD 1.9.4a51-x86_64-Rev9.app/Contents/MacOS/startup.command:
line 7: 47194 Segmentation fault: 11
"$p/../Resources/VMD.app/Contents/MacOS/VMD"
$*

Saving session...

..copying shared history...

..saving history...truncating history files...

..completed.

Deleting expired sessions...none found.

[Process completed]

Thanks for looking into this!
David

On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 12:27 PM John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> David,
> Can you run "sw_vers" on your mac and report the result, and can
> you also send me the VMD startup messages that list the CPU features
> detected during startup? I've had one other user report this symptom
> so far, but I have not been able to reproduce it yet on any of the Mac
> systems we use for development and testing. If you can provide this
> information, I'm hoping it'll assist me with narrowing down the root cause.
>
> Best regards,
> John Stone
>
> On Fri, May 07, 2021 at 12:29:03AM -0400, David Kastner wrote:
> > I just wanted to document that the newest version of VMD for Mac with
> > Intel chips (VMD 1.9.4a51-x86_64-Rev9), will immediately crash when
> trying
> > to use QuickSurf. VMD crashes without providing an error message.
> > --
> > David W. Kastner
> > Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
> > Department of Biological Engineering
> > Email: [1]kastner_at_mit.edu
> >
> > References
> >
> > Visible links
> > 1. mailto:kastner_at_mit.edu
>
> --
> NIH Center for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
> Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Phone: 217-244-3349
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
> 

-- 
David W. Kastner
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Department of Biological Engineering
Email: kastner_at_mit.edu