After several years spent (for work reasons) almost entirely in the
Winsux world, I finally got a new machine with room for a Linux
partition.  I installed Debian Linux (slink) and got it working and X
configured without too much trouble.  The packages Debian installed
all seem to work correctly.  However, the first external package I
tried to install was, of course,  POV (3.1g from povray.org).
Everything seems to be in the correct directories, but both x-povray
and s-povray immediately return a segmentation fault when I try to run
a test render (as root).  Running as myself, x-povray still seg
faults, but s-povray reports "error in loading shared library:
undefined symbol: __bzero".  I tried using Superpatch povray and the
seg faults went away, but in both x-povray and povray under root, I
get "error in loading shared libraries: undefined symbol:
__register_frame_info".  I get the same as myself with x-povray and
with povray, I get "error in loading shared libraries: undefined
symbol: __deregister_frame_info".  Obviously, I did something wrong
somewhere.  With time and Linux experience, no doubt, I can find the
trouble but - perhaps it is a character flaw - I wanna POV *now*!  Can
anyone spare a clue?

Jerry Anning
clem "at" dhol "dot" com

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Jerry Anning wrote:
> 
> After several years spent (for work reasons) almost entirely in the
> Winsux world, I finally got a new machine with room for a Linux
> partition.  I installed Debian Linux (slink) and got it working and X
> configured without too much trouble.  The packages Debian installed
> all seem to work correctly.  However, the first external package I
> tried to install was, of course,  POV (3.1g from povray.org).
> Everything seems to be in the correct directories, but both x-povray
> and s-povray immediately return a segmentation fault when I try to run
> a test render (as root).  Running as myself, x-povray still seg
> faults, but s-povray reports "error in loading shared library:
> undefined symbol: __bzero".  I tried using Superpatch povray and the
> seg faults went away, but in both x-povray and povray under root, I
> get "error in loading shared libraries: undefined symbol:
> __register_frame_info".  I get the same as myself with x-povray and
> with povray, I get "error in loading shared libraries: undefined
> symbol: __deregister_frame_info".  Obviously, I did something wrong
> somewhere.  With time and Linux experience, no doubt, I can find the
> trouble but - perhaps it is a character flaw - I wanna POV *now*!  Can
> anyone spare a clue?
> 
> Jerry Anning
> clem "at" dhol "dot" com

Hi Jerry!

I had a similar problem when I tried to install Mark's binaries on my
linux. My version is quite old so I guess this might due to the older
libraries I use. I installed his binaries on a new SuSE distribution at
work with no problems. How old is your Debian? 
I compiled povray with my old libraries and it just works without any
flaw. Maybe that's an option for you?


All the Best,

Marc
-- 
Marc Schimmler

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Marc Schimmler wrote:
> 
> Jerry Anning wrote:
> >
> > After several years spent (for work reasons) almost entirely in the
> > Winsux world, I finally got a new machine with room for a Linux
> > partition.  I installed Debian Linux (slink) and got it working and X
> > configured without too much trouble.  The packages Debian installed
> > all seem to work correctly.  However, the first external package I
> > tried to install was, of course,  POV (3.1g from povray.org).
> > Everything seems to be in the correct directories, but both x-povray
> > and s-povray immediately return a segmentation fault when I try to run
> > a test render (as root).  Running as myself, x-povray still seg
> > faults, but s-povray reports "error in loading shared library:
> > undefined symbol: __bzero".  I tried using Superpatch povray and the
> > seg faults went away, but in both x-povray and povray under root, I
> > get "error in loading shared libraries: undefined symbol:
> > __register_frame_info".  I get the same as myself with x-povray and
> > with povray, I get "error in loading shared libraries: undefined
> > symbol: __deregister_frame_info".  Obviously, I did something wrong
> > somewhere.  With time and Linux experience, no doubt, I can find the
> > trouble but - perhaps it is a character flaw - I wanna POV *now*!  Can
> > anyone spare a clue?
> >
> > Jerry Anning
> > clem "at" dhol "dot" com
> 
> Hi Jerry!
> 
> I had a similar problem when I tried to install Mark's binaries on my
> linux. My version is quite old so I guess this might due to the older
> libraries I use. I installed his binaries on a new SuSE distribution at
> work with no problems. How old is your Debian?
> I compiled povray with my old libraries and it just works without any
> flaw. Maybe that's an option for you?
> 
> All the Best,
> 
> Marc
> --
> Marc Schimmler

Slink is the latest Debian version, so I doubt the libraries are
outdated.  I've been meaning to get that installed on a spare partition
of my machine just to play around with it, but it hasn't happened yet. 
I compiled 3.1g under Red Hat 6.0.  POV-Ray is compiled under the
assumption that shared libraries are in certain places, and if they
aren't where it expects them, it could easily not work.

I'll try to get Slink installed tomorrow and see what I can do to make
it work.  I hadn't heard any complaints before.  I don't know that you
did anything wrong, per se, but POV-Ray may be making some assumptions
that aren't valid under Debian.

At some point in the future, I hope to put together a script that will
configure a makefile based on your system setup as detected by the
configuration script.  For now, it sounds like you'll need to compile it
yourself, but the makefile may require modifications.

-- 
Mark Gordon
mtg### [at] povrayorg

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I have a version of povray3.1e for the potato version of debian.

Get it at: ftp://badcheese.com/pub/povray31.deb

- Steve

Jerry Anning wrote:
> 
> After several years spent (for work reasons) almost entirely in the
> Winsux world, I finally got a new machine with room for a Linux
> partition.  I installed Debian Linux (slink) and got it working and X
> configured without too much trouble.  The packages Debian installed
> all seem to work correctly.  However, the first external package I
> tried to install was, of course,  POV (3.1g from povray.org).
> Everything seems to be in the correct directories, but both x-povray
> and s-povray immediately return a segmentation fault when I try to run
> a test render (as root).  Running as myself, x-povray still seg
> faults, but s-povray reports "error in loading shared library:
> undefined symbol: __bzero".  I tried using Superpatch povray and the
> seg faults went away, but in both x-povray and povray under root, I
> get "error in loading shared libraries: undefined symbol:
> __register_frame_info".  I get the same as myself with x-povray and
> with povray, I get "error in loading shared libraries: undefined
> symbol: __deregister_frame_info".  Obviously, I did something wrong
> somewhere.  With time and Linux experience, no doubt, I can find the
> trouble but - perhaps it is a character flaw - I wanna POV *now*!  Can
> anyone spare a clue?
> 
> Jerry Anning
> clem "at" dhol "dot" com

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