[Ifeffit] ldd /usr/local/bin/ifeffit ldd: /lib/ld-linux.so.2 exited with unknown exit code (139)

[Matt Newville]

Jacques,

I don't understand how you get this core dump.  The title line is
not enough to go on.  Please be more complete in describing your
problem, including:
  1) how ifeffit was configured and installed, including version
  2) what command you type
  3) what the actual error message is.

You say that you saw hints and reports of other problems, but
don't tell us what they are...  should we guess?

It seems like you typed a command at a terminal and immediately
get a core dump.  Sorry to be so dense but: what command did you
type?    If you type: 
 ~>ifeffit

and get a core dump before any messages from Ifeffit, it is most
likely a memory management issue.  If that is the case, the
suggestions Bruce gave are a good start.  If that is not the
case, we'll need to know more.

--Matt

On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Jacques Roux wrote:

> This is a short report of various successful installations of ifeffit (and 
> companion programs athena, artemis etc...) on linux boxes running 
> Mandrake 8.1 8.2 and 9.0. However I would like to report one nagging failure 
> which is summarized in the subject line of the message. On my office DELL 
> under Linux Mandrake 9.0 ifeffit core dump and ldd issues the rather terse 
> error message "unknown exit code (139)". The very same code runs fine and 
> (ldd gives a meaningfull answer!) on other machines running the very same 
> version of linux (including gcc, ld, glib etc...). I checked on google and 
> found other people running into very similar problem (OK on one machine, 
> wrong on the other). I tried to recompile ifeffit.f using --static but I 
> could not get the static version of libX11 so for the time being I gave up. 
> BTW it is not too bad as I can use the software on the same computer booting 
> an older version (mdk 8.1) and at home on a 9.0 !
> I hope this information may be useful to someone sometime ?