Re: core dumped?

[hankin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Steve Hankin)]

There is an FAQ on this subject which may be relevant:

	"On an AIX machine I get: Illegal instruction (core dumped)"

see
	http://tmap.pmel.noaa.gov/ferret/FAQ/#system



	- steve

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On Jun 13,  9:18pm, SONGYONGJIA wrote:
> Subject: core dumped?
>
> [ text/plain ]:
> !@!@!@ When I finished install ferret in IBM_RS6000, and typed "% ferret
> -gui", I got the follow error:
> !@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@ Illegal instruction (core dumped)
>
> !@!@!@ If I type ferret, I may enter ferret like this:
> !@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@ % ferret
> !@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@ NOAA/PMEL TMAP
> !@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@ Program FERRET (GUI)
> !@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@ Version 4.45 - 01/17/97
> !@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@ 13-Jun-97 21:10
> !@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@ yes?
> !@!@!@ But I typed "go tutorial", I also got the error:
> !@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@ Illegal instruction (core dumped)
> !@!@!@ The file "tutorail.jnl" in the examples directory.
> !@!@!@ Why?
> !@!@!@ Thank you!
>
>-- End of excerpt from SONGYONGJIA


On Jun 13, 11:10pm, Saji N Hameed wrote:
> Subject: Re: core dumped?
>
> 	Hello  SONGYONGJIA,
>
> 	I had a similar problem sometime back and the following
> 	prescription from Daniel helped.
>
> 	saji
> _____________________________________________________________________
> check your LANG environment variable.  Before running Ferret, it has
> to be set to C, e.g, you need to do "setenv LANG C".  right now it's
> probably set to "en_US", or something similar.  That problem affect some
> pre-compiled program out there, Netscape being another one.
> At least that's my guess to the solution for your problem.
>
> Daniel
>
> --
> Daniel Robitaille    (daniel@ocean.seos.uvic.ca)
> School of Earth and Ocean Sciences -- University of Victoria, BC, Canada
> URL: http://wikyonos.seos.uvic.ca/people/daniel/daniel.html



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