Installation problem (Ubuntu 12.10 Virtual Box VM)

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sreenivas
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Installation problem (Ubuntu 12.10 Virtual Box VM)

Postby sreenivas » 28 Mar 2013, 03:11

Newbie question -- I followed the following steps (cf. http://www.polymake.org/doku.php/howto/install)

1. sudo apt-get install ant default-jdk g++ libboost-dev libgmp-dev libgmpxx4ldbl libmpfr-dev libperl-dev libsvn-perl libterm-readline-gnu-perl libxml-libxml-perl libxml-libxslt-perl libxml-perl libxml-writer-perl libxml2-dev w3c-dtd-xhtml xsltproc

2. ./configure

3. make

4. make install

and /usr/local/bin has "polymake" and "polymake-config"... but when I run polymake from a terminal window, I get a segmentation fault.

What am I doing wrong?

Any help/pointer is greatly appreciated!

-Sreenivas

blorenz
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Re: Installation problem (Ubuntu 12.10 Virtual Box VM)

Postby blorenz » 30 Mar 2013, 13:13

Hi,

I don't see any obvious errors on your side, but I couldn't produce the segfaults on a freshly installed Ubuntu 12.10 VirtualBox either.

Are there any messages prior to the segfaults? If there are any polymake startup messages please run 'polymake -d'.

Can you try to run polymake within a debugger:
gdb -args perl -S polymake
At the (gdb) prompt enter 'r' to run polymake, you should then return to the debugger when it crashes. With 'bt' you can then obtain a backtrace which might give a hint on where it is crashing.

Benjamin

sreenivas
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Re: Installation problem (Ubuntu 12.10 Virtual Box VM)

Postby sreenivas » 07 Apr 2013, 00:11

I reinstalled everything and everything worked out OK after I "chown"ed the .polymake directory from root to my user-id.

Cheers!


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