Brandon, Thanks very much for all this information about Mathematica - that gives me a glimmer of hope!
> 1) If you haven't already, recompile your xf86* packages. Somehow I > missed those when upgrading X, which caused issues for me. I did recompile all the xf86 packages that qlist came up with. > 2) Mathematica (at least version 7) ships its own version of Qt, which > it will use instead of the system version of Qt. If Mathematica 5 does > something similar -- sorry, I have never used that version on Linux, so > I do not know -- then it's possible that the old libraries are causing > issues. At least in version 7, removing the Mathematica-supplied Qt > libraries will cause Mathematica to use the updated system Qt libraries. > For me, the Qt libraries shipped with Mathematica are under > (install_directory)/SystemFiles/Libraries/Linux-x86-64/. If Mathematica > 5 ships libraries that are also installed system-wide, then I would > suggest moving the Mathematica files to another location and seeing if > using the system libraries helps with your crashing issue. For me, > removing the Mathematica Qt libraries made Mathematica faster and look > better. This is very illuminating. I looked in the "/usr/local/Wolfram/Mathematica/5.2/SystemFiles/Libraries/Linux" directory, and this is what it contains for me: libguide.so libgmp.so.3 libvml.so libmkl.so libmkl_def.so libmkl_lapack32.so libmkl_lapack64.so libmkl_p3.so libmkl_p4.so libmkl_p4p.so libmkl_vml_def.so libmkl_vml_p3.so libmkl_vml_p4.so libmkl_vml_p4p.so Are these names familiar to anyone? Are these Qt libraries or are there others too?
