Hello There is a program used extensively in the oceanographic and meteorological community called ferret - http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/Ferret/.
I would like to run this under debian/woody - but run into problems. I have to install 'termcap-comp' but it's not enough - doing a strace ferret I get - (only the last part shown) open("/lib/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=117352, ...}) = 0 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\240I\0"..., 4096) = 409 6 old_mmap(NULL, 118648, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40129000 mprotect(0x40145000, 3960, PROT_NONE) = 0 old_mmap(0x40145000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x1b0 00) = 0x40145000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libc.so.5", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=586720, ...}) = 0 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0|-\1\000"..., 4096) = 40 96 old_mmap(NULL, 776828, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40146000 mprotect(0x401cb000, 232060, PROT_NONE) = 0 old_mmap(0x401cb000, 24576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x84 000) = 0x401cb000 old_mmap(0x401d1000, 207484, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANO NYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x401d1000 close(3) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0 x40204000 munmap(0x40017000, 20409) = 0 getpid() = 6625 brk(0) = 0x9348a64 brk(0x9348c24) = 0x9348c24 brk(0) = 0x9348c24 old_mmap(NULL, 2097152, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0) = 0x40205000 munmap(0x40205000, 1028096) = 0 munmap(0x40400000, 20480) = 0 mprotect(0x40300000, 0, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE) = 0 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ Does anybody have a clue.... BTW I know it works on Redhat 6.2 - so not related to glibc (I think). Karsten -- ********************************************************************** Karsten Bolding, CEC - Joint Research Centre, ISPRA Direct: +39 0332 789204 Space Applications Institute Sec. +39 0332 789177 Marine Environment Unit, TP442 FAX: +39 0332 789648 I-21020 Ispra(VA) - Italy E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **********************************************************************