Re: Problem with kernel 2.6.11

[Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>]

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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