Messages in this thread | | | From | Alistair John Strachan <> | Subject | Re: Problem with kernel 2.6.11 | Date | Thu, 14 Jul 2005 21:06:06 +0100 |
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On Thursday 14 Jul 2005 20:34, FyD wrote: > Dear All, > > I have a problem with a program named Gaussian (http://www.gaussian.com) > (versions g98 or g03) and FC 4.0 (default kernel 2.6.11): I am used to take > Gaussian binaries compiled on the RedHat 9.0 version, and used them on FC > 2.0 or FC 3.0. If I try to do so, on FC 4.0. (with the default kernel) > Gaussian stops (both g98 and g03 versions) with the following error > message: > > [fyd@localhost ~]$ g98 < toto-g98.com> toto-g98.log > [fyd@localhost ~]$ g03 < toto-g03.com> toto-g03.log > Erroneous write during file extend. write 208 instead of 4096 > Probably out of disk space. > Write error in NtrExt1: No such file or directory > > And obviously, I do _not_ have any problem of space and no NFS server on my > machine... > > Now if I compile and use the kernel 2.6.12, this message dispears and the > program Gaussian g98 works fine, but I still have problems with the version > g03 which stops without providing any message... > > From my tests, it seems to be a problem relative to the kernel. Being not a > programmer, it is difficult for me to imagine the problem, and even to > describe it...
Install "strace", then run the programs like:
strace g98 < toto-g98.com> toto-g98.log
You'll be able to see what syscalls fail and their decoded return values. This is extremely useful for determining how a binary application is interacting with libc and, inevitably, the kernel.
-- Cheers, Alistair.
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