Re: doubtful RPMs?

[Paul E. Johnson]

That seg fault you mention is one my student has been having. I'll get a
look at his computer by thursday.  Maybe I'll find what's wrong.

I don't know if it helps your situation, but I was providing the RPMS in
the old days and I've still got RPMS for swarm-1.4.1 on my site. These
are for Redhat  5 or 6, take your pick.
http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/

These days, I'm providing RPMS for swarm snapshots of version 2.1 (which
I've been calling 2.0.1.2000020x or such) as well. You could try them.

In the future, when you get a seg fault like you got, please run your
program under gdb. The gdb that Redhat ships is no good, I've got a
newer one in the directory above.  You run your program under gdb, when
it crashes, you type "bt" to show what caused the crash.  It is simply
not possible for anybody here to figure what's wrong without information
like that.

Note if you want to run gdb on swarm2 or later, you have to do it like
so

gdb .libs/name-of-your-program

Then type 
run
then
bt 
after the crash.

Swarm 1.4.1 did not require you to start with the .libs, just do the
application name.


Sandor Megyaszai wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I would have tried to use Swarm. I would use it through a higher level
> interface, MAML (Multi-Agent Modelling Language,
> http://www.syslab.ceu.hu/maml, probably you know about it). I'm not an
> expert of this MAML, so I cannot strongly state that the problem is
> not in that, but the signs say to me that the Swarm part is the
> problematic.
> 
> MAML need Swarm version 1.4.1, but as a developer of it told me higher
> versions should have been also OK.  After I use RedHat Linux, I
> downloaded the only RPM version from your ftp site,
> swarm-hdf5-2.0.1-3.rh6.i386.rpm
> 
> I installed it successfully, but I have problem with it when I try to
> compile and run a ~HelloWorld MAML example.
> 
> When I tried to run the program:
> 
> > *** event raised for error: OffsetOutOfRange
> > *** function: indexAtOffset(), file:
> > /home/alex/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.0.1/src/collections/Collection.m,
> > line: 110
> > *** execution terminating due to error
> > /home/alex/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.0.1/src/defobj/Symbol.m:173
> > -[Error(c)
> > _raiseEvent:]
> > Aborted (core dumped)
> 
> Why I thought the mistake could be in the Swarm package: it mentions
> /home/alex directory which shouldn't be in an RPM package...
> 
> Later I found the older versions of Swarm packed in RPMs, so I
> downloaded and installed now swarm-with-hdf5-1.4.1-3.rh6. The error
> message is a bit different but rather similar:
> 
> > *** event raised for error: OffsetOutOfRange
> > *** function: indexAtOffset(), file: Collection.m, line: 109
> > *** execution terminating due to error
> > Aborted (core dumped)
> 
> I really don't know what to do any more. It would be very great if you
> could help me, this is an important task of me.
> 
> Thanks in advance, yours sincerely:
> --
>                                                 mEGYA.
> 
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