Trial version crash in Ubuntu 10

[atudorica]

Hello,

  I have just downloaded the trial version of Pixinsight and it crashes as soon as I enter the program (cometimes it works for a few second but when I try do to something it closes). The message I get into the console is:

Welcome to PixInsight. Started 2010 Dec 15 20:36:16 J2455546.35852 UTC

* Parallel processing enabled: Using 4 logical processors.
* Thread CPU affinity control enabled.
* PSM AutoSave enabled. Auto-save period: 30 seconds.

** No running X11 compositing manager has been detected. Some core GUI functionality will be reduced or unavailable.

 I have enabled desktop effects and the message dissapeared.

The message I get in my terminal after the crash is:

alex@alex-Aspire-7745G:~/pixinsight$ ./bin/PixInsight.sh

PixInsight Core 01.06.01.0625 (x86)
Copyright (C) 2003-2010 Pleiades Astrophoto

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'pcl::EUnixSegmentationViolation'
./bin/PixInsight.sh: line 9:  2276 Aborted                 $dirname/$appname $*
alex@alex-Aspire-7745G:~/pixinsight$

   Do you have any idea what might cause this?

Thanks!!


  Alex Tudorica

[Carlos Milovic]

I'm almost sure that this is the same problem reported before. Search the forum for Ubuntu and Fedora crashes. At the end, it is just a problem with the libz libraries, and you need to move them elsewhere.

[astropixel]

$sudo lshw

32 or 64 bit?

[Juan Conejero]

Hi Alex,

Unfortunately, the current version 1.6.1 of PixInsight for 32-bit Linux does not work well. This is due to a mistake I made when I compiled the core executable. PI 1.6.1 works perfectly on 64-bit Linux distributions as well as on the rest of platforms (FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Windows, both 32-bit and 64-bit versions).

The new version 1.6.9 fixes all of these problems. The release is imminent, so I just ask for a bit of patience. In the meanwhile you may try to install PI on a 64-bit Linux distro if you can (you have to move your license file to your home directory on the 64-bit machine, or email us and we'll reset your trial license).

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Edit: I forgot to say that we'll restart all trial licenses for 32-bit Linux users as soon as we release PI 1.6.9. In this way they'll have the whole trial period of 45 days.

[atudorica]

Hello,

   Thank you very much for your answers. I do indeed have a 32 bit machine so I'll just wait for the new version that works well, I'm not in a big hurry.

    All the best,
Alex