The situation I ran into was not a hardware issue, because I could run the .isl
script at the console with no problem. Only Xvfb would fail(with a segment
fault).
My belief was that RedHat introduced a bug to xvfb when moving to RHEL5, since
RHEL3 seemed to work fine. I submitted this issue to RedHat, and was told that
this would be fixed in RHEL 5.3.
I have not been able to test the 5.3 fix, however Matt makes it sounds as
though it may still be an issue. If you haven't upgraded to 5.3, please do so,
and let us know how it goes.
RedHat technical support also suggested using a Virtual(XEN) machine to run IDV
with the .isl script, until RHEL 5.3 was released. Unfortunately the amount of
time/effort required to convert our server to XEN is prohibitive. It also
seems like using and elephant gun to kill a flea. I was going to wait until
5.3 came out, but the xvfb problem has now become a low priority at our site.
________________________________________
From: idvusers-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [idvusers-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Matt Alonso [matt.alonso@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 3:34 PM
To: Tom Whittaker
Cc: idvusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [idvusers] IDV/Xvfb behavior
Integrated ATI ES1000.
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Tom Whittaker <whittaker@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Matt --
>
> What is the graphics card on your machine?
>
> tom
> --
> Tom Whittaker
> University of Wisconsin-Madison
> Space Science & Engineering Center (SSEC)
> Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS)
> 1225 W. Dayton Street
> Madison, WI 53706 USA
> ph: +1 608 262 2759
>
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