Thorsten Froehlich wrote:

> In article <3dc98005@news.povray.org> , Christian Lavoie
> <cla### [at] po-boxmcgillca>  wrote:
> 
>> It dies with a Segmentation Fault.
>>
>> Debian's packaged 3.0 does not have that problem. Redirecting output
>> doesn't seem to help at all. The +GA command option is not helping
>> either.
> 
> You are not by any chance trying to use display without having X
> configured
> or something similar?  

Not as far as I know. Been thru the manpages repeatedly, nothing there 
sounds like it could cause this.

/usr/local/bin/povray +Ibasic.pov +Obasic.tga +H800 +W800

What exactly could go wrong with *nothing* turned on?

X -- nope. $DISPLAY is not set anyway.
Stream redirection -- didn't help.
UNIX stdout/err redirection, etc -- didn't help.

In any cases, a segfault wasn't what I expected.

> Essentially your problem is most likely related to
> the fact that the 3.5 binary is a kind of hybrid, while the Debian package
> might just be a plain command line version without X output support.

3.5 works great *unless* I have some sort of non-terminal usage. If I rsh to 
a machine and THEN start it, it works. If I rsh to the *same* machine and 
pass the script to rsh as the command to execute, it dies.

If I throw it through the queueing system (PBS as it happens), it dies. If I 
rsh to the same machine pbs scheduled it and then run it -- wonderful.

I've compared the environment variables. There wasn't anything that could 
cause segfaults in there -- as far as I could tell.

> In any case, as you may have noticed this group not being filled with
> notes that the Linux version does not work Linux systems, you may want to
> check your system configuration carefully, and regarding the X issue,
> check older
> messages in this group.  I can't promise it will help you solve your
> problem, but probably give you some pointers what to check first...

Thanx anyway.

Have fun,
Chris

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