OK.... Here is what I had to end up doing to fix my issue....
I bit the bullet and upgraded the system to 64 bit Minty 9. However, I still had an issue with the application crashing. At this point I did the following....
1. Made a backup copy of the PixInsight,sh file. (note: the ~ symbol puts you into your home directory)
From a terminal...
cd ~/PixInsight/bin
cp ./PixInsight.sh ./PixInsight.BU.sh
At this point you can either use vim or gedit. For ease of use, I chose gedit.
gedit ./PixInsight.sh
The editor application will open up at this time.
2. The changes I made are the following... Make sure to save your changes.
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#!/bin/bash
appname=`basename $0 | sed s,\.sh$,,`
dirname=`dirname $0`
if [ "${dirname:0:1}" != "/" ]; then
dirname=$PWD/$dirname
fi
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$dirname/lib:$dirname
# export LD_LIBRARY_PATH export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=".:./lib"; ./PixInsight $dirname/$appname $*
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Admittedly, I neglected to comment out the last line, thus allowing
the application to restart on its own once it crashed. This allowed me
to see the error that was being created. See below where the error
should be in bold lettering.
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~/PixInsight/bin/PixInsight.sh
PixInsight Core 01.06.01.0625 (x86_64)
Copyright (C) 2003-2010 Pleiades Astrophoto
./PixInsight: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: undefined symbol: gzopen64** A previous instance of the PixInsight Core application crashed.
Reusing instance slot #1.
PixInsight Core 01.06.01.0625 (x86_64)
Copyright (C) 2003-2010 Pleiades Astrophoto
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3. From here, I was able to find in the forum another hit on the same issue for Ubuntu based systems. The issue seems to be related to the libz files. There should be two of them. See:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=610789 and
http://pixinsight.com/forum/index.php?topic=1876.0 if you are curious.
I will delineate the steps here. From a terminal...
cd ~/PixInsight/bin/lib
ls -l libz*
You should get a listing of the two files.
libz.so.1
libz.so.1.2.3
Now change the name of the files.
mv ./libz.so.1 ./ZZZ.libz.so.1
mv ./libz.so.1.2.3 ./ZZZ.libz.so.1.2.3
4. Now retry to use PixInsight.
~/PixInsight/bin/PixInsight.sh
At this point, I am now able to use PixInsight on Minty9 using the 64 bit version.
Note, if you did not change the PixInsight.sh back, you will see PixInsight restart automatically once you exit it.
Make sure to return the script back to its original form, and then save it.
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#!/bin/bash
appname=`basename $0 | sed s,\.sh$,,`
dirname=`dirname $0`
if [ "${dirname:0:1}" != "/" ]; then
dirname=$PWD/$dirname
fi
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$dirname/lib:$dirname
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
# export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=".:./lib"; ./PixInsight
$dirname/$appname $*----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hopefully, you are now good to go. I hope this helps someone out there.
David
