[phenixbb] Phenix version 1.7-650 and coot - SOLVED!

Leonid Flaks flaks at bnl.gov
Tue Feb 1 05:25:36 PST 2011


On 02/01/2011 04:20 AM, phenixbb-request at phenix-online.org wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:37:14 -0800
> From: Nathaniel Echols<nechols at lbl.gov>
> To: PHENIX user mailing list<phenixbb at phenix-online.org>
> Subject: Re: [phenixbb] Phenix version 1.7-650 and coot
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> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Leonid Flaks<flaks at bnl.gov>  wrote:
>> >  Hi!
>> >  I just installed phenix version 1.7-650 on fedora 14 64-bit and noticed that
>> >  if I start coot from within phenix interface, most of the icons on the right
>> >  hand side of the coot window are not displayed.
>> >  There is a lot of messages like this:
>> >
>> >  Error loading icon: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file
>> >  '/usr/share/coot/pixmaps/residue-info.png'
> Okay, apparently we missed an important environment variable in the
> script that launches Coot from Phenix - several library paths need to
> be cleansed to prevent conflicting with the libraries we distribute.
> The one we didn't know about (because it never caused problems before)
> appears to be XDG_DATA_DIRS.  The crude fix for this is to edit
> $PHENIX/phenix/phenix/command_line/start_coot.sh and add this line at
> the end of a list of "unset" commands:
>
> unset XDG_DATA_DIRS
>
> It'll be fixed in the next build too.  If this doesn't totally solve
> the problem, let me know - I'm going to unset several other paths too,
> but those didn't appear to have any effect on our Fedora 14 machine.
>
> -Nat
Nat, Just to confirm - your fix worked!
Thank you very much,

Leon

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