Re: [ccp4bb] error in starting imosflm

2014-04-29 Thread Felix Frolow
Hi Tim, What can be a reason to work with an obsolete version of CCP4? I remember reading somewhere that 6.3.0 version is obsolete. FF Dr Felix Frolow Professor of Structural Biology and Biotechnology, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology Tel Aviv University 69978, Israel

Re: [ccp4bb] error in starting imosflm

2014-04-29 Thread Ian Tickle
Hi Felix You're very trusting! Bugs in new versions of software are not unknown! The bug may not manifest itself in a program crash (though it makes life easier if it does), rather it may simply give different numerical results that you may not spot for some after. This is why CCP4 distributes

Re: [ccp4bb] error in starting imosflm

2014-04-29 Thread Marcin Wojdyr
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 03:51:57PM +0100, Ian Tickle wrote: Harry, I've run into this problem before with other programs when I switch between v6.3 v6.4. I think the problem is this code in ccp4.setup-sh: if [ `expr :${PATH}: : .*:${dir}:` -eq 0 ]; then We can remove this condition if

Re: [ccp4bb] error in starting imosflm

2014-04-29 Thread Ian Tickle
Hi Marcin It was obviously added originally because there was a limit to the length of the PATH variable (presumably there still is), so repeated invocations of setup scripts could take you over the limit. Ideally the script should remove old versions from the PATH, not just prepend the new one,

Re: [ccp4bb] error in starting imosflm

2014-04-29 Thread David Waterman
Hi Ian, Improving the CCP4 tests is a priority. We (the core team) have a project looking into that. If developers have their own tests for components of the suite that have not made it into the distribution, then we'd be happy to collect them for the new test set. Best wishes -- David On 29

[ccp4bb] error in starting imosflm

2014-04-28 Thread sreetama das
Dear All,    Whenever I open up imosflm GUI from the terminal, I get the following error: iMosflm version 7.1.1, 24th March 2014 ipmosflm is not compatible. Please configure iMosflm with the correct executable. clicking the Configure button at the bottom of the error message panel

Re: [ccp4bb] error in starting imosflm

2014-04-28 Thread Harry Powell
Hi When you get this error, and everything has been closed, what do you get if you type (in the same terminal window that you tried to start iMosflm) - $MOSFLM_EXEC ? It's plain from the message that ipmosflm is not compatible' that iMosflm is trying to run with an

Re: [ccp4bb] error in starting imosflm

2014-04-28 Thread sreetama das
Dear Sir,   If I sorce ccp4-6.3, and then change in the bashrc file source ccp4-6.4, (and source the modified .bashrc file in either case) but don't close the previous terminal, then opening imosflm gives the aforementioned error. After closing the imosflm GUI, if I type at the

Re: [ccp4bb] error in starting imosflm

2014-04-28 Thread Harry Powell
Hi Sreetama That's the problem - sourcing the old ccp4 6.3 distro has set up MOSFLM_EXEC to point to an old copy of ipmosflm that will not run with the latest iMosflm. Mosflm version 7.0.9 for Image plate and CCD data 14th May 2012 which cannot be used with iMosflm 7.1.0. So it looks

Re: [ccp4bb] error in starting imosflm

2014-04-28 Thread Ian Tickle
Harry, I've run into this problem before with other programs when I switch between v6.3 v6.4. I think the problem is this code in ccp4.setup-sh: if [ `expr :${PATH}: : .*:${dir}:` -eq 0 ]; then if test $ccp4_first_in_path -eq 1; then PATH=${dir}:${PATH} else

Re: [ccp4bb] error in starting imosflm

2014-04-28 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Sreetama, dear Ian, I avoid sourcing both version 6.3 and 6.4 in the same terminal. If I need to work with 6.3 I modify my .bashrc from 6.4 to 6.3 and then open a new terminal to make sure everything refers to v6.3 and vice versa. Best, Tim

Re: [ccp4bb] error in starting imosflm

2014-04-28 Thread David Waterman
Dear all, For experiments that involve switching between different versions of CCP4 you might like to try the CCP4Dispatchers scripts (see http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/html/CCP4Dispatchers.html). On a binary install of ccp4 6.4.0 these will have been generated automatically. For example, on my Linux