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Re: [3partysw] autocad on suns? [help.mit.edu #531058]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Mon Nov 26 15:55:40 2007
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:55:20 -0500
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
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Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU> wrote on Mon, 26 Nov 2007
at 13:26:25 -0500 in <200711261826.lAQIQPYL022902@dit.mit.edu>:
> It died of bit rot after some Athena patch release during the last year;
> I'm not sure exactly when. It won't run any more:
>
> FATAL ERROR: Segmentation violation
>
> when a launch is attempted. The binaries are over 14 years old now. There's
> really little more that can be said than what's in the message.
Err, there is *a lot* more that can be said than such an error message.
When a segmentation violation happens, if core dumps are enabled,
a core dump is written and you can generally easily see where the fault
lies.
I think I didn't quite have my game on when I sent this email, since
I didn't notice how to try to start autocad. But running
add autocad_v13
h.autocad
seems to get me a working autocad on a Sun running in 8-bit mode
(portnoy.mit.edu). Is "h.autocad" not the correct version?
I can open an existing DWG file and zoom around and manipulate it...
Is there something else I should be trying?
I realize that you don't want to invest a lot of effort into this,
but if it seems like it works, it would be nice to have it back.
I think, also, when a patch release breaks a piece of software,
sending a note to bugs (or release-team? Maybe it came up? I have
not been following) is worth doing...often these things are trivial
to fix. Sun really really prides itself on binary compatibility,
and generally it works very very well.
--jhawk
