Can't run idlde (7.0) on fedora 9

I have a new linux box running fedora core 9. I have IDL 7.0
installed. IDL works fine, but when I try to run IDLDE, I receive the
following error message:

Failed to load idl_jdml from /usr/local/itt/idl70/idlde/bin.linux.x86
(Use default IDL)

I read somewhere that this problem might be fixed by one of these:

yum install libstdc++.so.5
yum install compat-libstdc++-33

But I am still getting the same problem.

The platform is 64 bit. I'm pretty sure I installed the correct
version of IDL.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks.

-Jonathan

Hi,

I was having a problem while I tried to launch IDL Workbench or Help
window. My problem was with libxul and while I am at loading screen I
was getting hotspot java virtual machine error.

I am a beginner in in Linux ( I use RHEL 5.2) and also new in IDL. It
took me a couple of hours to resolve these issues. Finally I get rid
of the bug by uninstalling xulrunner and I had to install Firefox 3.0
(it was a dependent file to xulrunner) It works fine but I downgraded
my Firefox to v1.5.something. I think either producer of Xulrunner or
IDL should release a patch about this problem.

I think for your case, best case would to ask a direct help from the
IDL people.


On Aug 26, 2:19 pm, JJ <j...@cornell.edu> wrote:
> I have a new linux box running fedora core 9. I have IDL 7.0
> installed. IDL works fine, but when I try to run IDLDE, I receive the
> following error message:
>
> Failed to load idl_jdml from /usr/local/itt/idl70/idlde/bin.linux.x86
> (Use default IDL)
>
> I read somewhere that this problem might be fixed by one of these:
>
> yum install libstdc++.so.5
> yum install compat-libstdc++-33
>
> But I am still getting the same problem.
>
> The platform is 64 bit. I'm pretty sure I installed the correct
> version of IDL.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Jonathan

On Aug 26, 8:24*pm, gsever <gokhanse...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was having a problem while I tried to launch IDL Workbench or Help
> window. My problem was with libxul and while I am at loading screen I
> was getting hotspot java virtual machine error.
>
> I am a beginner in in Linux ( I use RHEL 5.2) and also new in IDL. It
> took me a couple of hours to resolve these issues. Finally I get rid
> of the bug by uninstalling xulrunner and I had to install Firefox 3.0
> (it was a dependent file to xulrunner) It works fine but I downgraded
> my Firefox to v1.5.something. I think either producer of Xulrunner or
> IDL should release a patch about this problem.
>
> I think for your case, best case would to ask a direct help from the
> IDL people.
>
> On Aug 26, 2:19 pm, JJ <j...@cornell.edu> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I have a new linux box running fedora core 9. *I have IDL 7.0
> > installed. *IDL works fine, but when I try to run IDLDE, I receive the
> > following error message:
>
> > Failed to load idl_jdml from /usr/local/itt/idl70/idlde/bin.linux.x86
> > (Use default IDL)
>
> > I read somewhere that this problem might be fixed by one of these:
>
> > yum install libstdc++.so.5
> > yum install compat-libstdc++-33
>
> > But I am still getting the same problem.
>
> > The platform is 64 bit. *I'm pretty sure I installed the correct
> > version of IDL.
>
> > Any help appreciated.
>
> > Thanks.
>
> > -Jonathan- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

We have released a patch for this issue that is discussed in IDL Tech
Tip 4395 XULRunner patch for IDL 7.0:

http://www.ittvis.com/services/techt...=INT&ttid=4395

The Tech Tip describes the issue and provides a link where you can
download the patch.

Regards,

Bill Okubo
IDL Product Manager
ITT Visual Information Solutions
bokubo@ittvis.com

www.ittvis.com/idl

Hi,

Thanks for the response.

I couldn't browse your link and just did a google search found this:
5395:Firefox 3, XULRunner and IDL Help issue?

I couldn't find a patch link there either. Are we talking about the
same problem?

I will be glad if you check this topic once more.

On Aug 27, 12:52 pm, bok...@ittvis.com wrote:
> On Aug 26, 8:24 pm, gsever <gokhanse...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I was having a problem while I tried to launch IDL Workbench or Help
> > window. My problem was with libxul and while I am at loading screen I
> > was getting hotspot java virtual machine error.
>
> > I am a beginner in in Linux ( I use RHEL 5.2) and also new in IDL. It
> > took me a couple of hours to resolve these issues. Finally I get rid
> > of the bug by uninstalling xulrunner and I had to install Firefox 3.0
> > (it was a dependent file to xulrunner) It works fine but I downgraded
> > my Firefox to v1.5.something. I think either producer of Xulrunner or
> > IDL should release a patch about this problem.
>
> > I think for your case, best case would to ask a direct help from the
> > IDL people.
>
> > On Aug 26, 2:19 pm, JJ <j...@cornell.edu> wrote:
>
> > > I have a new linux box running fedora core 9. I have IDL 7.0
> > > installed. IDL works fine, but when I try to run IDLDE, I receive the
> > > following error message:
>
> > > Failed to load idl_jdml from /usr/local/itt/idl70/idlde/bin.linux.x86
> > > (Use default IDL)
>
> > > I read somewhere that this problem might be fixed by one of these:
>
> > > yum install libstdc++.so.5
> > > yum install compat-libstdc++-33
>
> > > But I am still getting the same problem.
>
> > > The platform is 64 bit. I'm pretty sure I installed the correct
> > > version of IDL.
>
> > > Any help appreciated.
>
> > > Thanks.
>
> > > -Jonathan- Hide quoted text -
>
> > - Show quoted text -
>
> We have released a patch for this issue that is discussed in IDL Tech
> Tip 4395 XULRunner patch for IDL 7.0:
>
> http://www.ittvis.com/services/techt...=INT&ttid=4395
>
> The Tech Tip describes the issue and provides a link where you can
> download the patch.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill Okubo
> IDL Product Manager
> ITT Visual Information Solutions
> bok...@ittvis.com
>
> www.ittvis.com/idl

The link did not work for me either. Perhaps this is another
manifestation of the ITTVIS web site being a bit broken (and Bill may
also have mistyped the tip#). As Bill Okubo wrote on a different
thread yesterday: "We completely overhauled the ITT VIS website over
the weekend and some things are still not working correctly."

Anyway, I did file a request with ITTVIS tech support yesterday and
received this quick reply from one of the tech support folks:

> We've been running into issues with some 64-bit Linux distributions
> that are caused by the system not including some of the 32-bit
> libraries that the IDL 7.0 Workbench requires (even 64-bit IDL).
> You can track down which libraries are misisng by cd-ing to the
> /usr/local/itt/idl70/idlde/bin.linux.x86 directory, and then issuing
> this command at the shell prompt:
>
> ldd libidl_jdml.so
>
> Please forward the results of this command to me, and I can tell
> you whether any of the missing libraries are required for the IDL
> Workbench. Usually then is is simply a matter of installing the
> missing libraries for your system.
>
> It may also be helpful for me to see the results of the following
> command in IDL:
>
> o=obj_new('idl_idlbridge')
>
> I'll look for this information for you. Hopefully it will quickly
> point out for us what is missing.

I returned the information yesterday at about 1pm, but have yet to
hear back.

I'd rather go for installing a patch or installing some libraries than
removing stuff from my system that might require me to downgrade my
version of Firefox. So, I'm waiting to hear back fro ITTVIS.

I did find another mention of this on the ITT user forum where a
person said they only had to remove the i386 versions of Xulrunner and
some other things to make it work - and this did not impact
functionality because they still had the 64-bit versions.

from: https://ittvis.net/forum/message.asp?fmid=5465

> I just wanted to add that I was having the exact same problem with
> RHEL 5.2 64 bit.
>
> I did:
>
> yum remove xulrunner.i386
>
> It ended up removing xulrunner.i386, devhelp.i386, & firefox.i386. It
> fixed the problem with the IDLDE failing to open. I still have the
> 64bit versions of these packages installed so I haven't lost any
> functionality or usability by doing this.

Waiting to hear back from ITTVIS

-Jonathan

On Aug 27, 4:52*pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> gsever writes:
> > I couldn't browse your link and just did a google search found this:
> > 5395:Firefox 3, XULRunner and IDL Help issue?
>
> > I couldn't find a patch link there either. Are we talking about the
> > same problem?
>
> I had the same experience following the link. I wasn't
> able to find the patch, either, although I did get on
> to what appeared to be the ITTVIS technical support page.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming:http://www.dfanning.com/
> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

ITTVIS helped me resolve my problem. Thanks.

If any of you are in the same boat. It seems like my problem was not
with the Xulrunner library. I did finally find and install the "IDL
7.0 Linux Firefox 3 Update" see how to get it at (http://
groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.idl-pvwave/browse_thread/thread/
60d083e2d085e251/c4b994c4f2bea8b1#c4b994c4f2bea8b1), which supposedly
takes care of the xulrunner thing, and that had no effect on my issue.

I don't actually know if my idl-help was working or not before that,
but it worked fine after that patch, and IDLDE still failed to work.

Anyway, for me, following the instructions from ITTVIS, the results of
cd-ing to the /usr/local/itt/idl70/idlde/bin.linux.x86 directory, and
then issuing this command "ldd libidl_jdml.so" was the following:

linux-gate.so.1 => (0x00110000)
libidl_dml.so => not found
libidl.so.7.0 => not found
libidl_ops.so.7.0 => not found
libidl_ipcclient.so.7.0 => not found
libXp.so.6 => not found
libXpm.so.4 => not found
libXmu.so.6 => not found
libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x002c4000)
libXt.so.6 => not found
libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x002d4000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x002dc000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x002f6000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x003f7000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00401000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x0041a000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00428000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x0042d000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00456000)
libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x005bf000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x00678000)
libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x0067b000)
libxcb-xlib.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 (0x0067f000)
libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0x00681000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x009aa000)
libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x0069d000)

I figured I just needed to install the missing ones. When I did a yum
install on libXp, libXpm, libXmu, libXt I just got the reply that
those libraries were installed and up to date. But the trick was to
do a "yum update" with the complete name of each of the missing
libraries. For example: "yum update libXp.so.6". After that
everything worked.

I still get "not found" for the libidl* packages, but apparently
that's not important.

-Jonathan

I applied the patch that is listed on Downloads page of ITTVIS / IDL
for Linux / Xulrunner issue and my IDL Workbench works fine with
Firefox 3.

Thanks very much for the replies.

On Aug 27, 11:52*am, bok...@ittvis.com wrote:
> On Aug 26, 8:24*pm, gsever <gokhanse...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I was having a problem while I tried to launch IDL Workbench or Help
> > window. My problem was with libxul and while I am at loading screen I
> > was getting hotspot java virtual machine error.
>
> > I am a beginner in in Linux ( I use RHEL 5.2) and also new in IDL. It
> > took me a couple of hours to resolve these issues. Finally I get rid
> > of the bug by uninstalling xulrunner and I had to install Firefox 3.0
> > (it was a dependent file to xulrunner) It works fine but I downgraded
> > my Firefox to v1.5.something. I think either producer of Xulrunner or
> > IDL should release a patch about this problem.
>
> > I think for your case, best case would to ask a direct help from the
> > IDL people.
>
> > On Aug 26, 2:19 pm, JJ <j...@cornell.edu> wrote:
>
> > > I have a new linux box running fedora core 9. *I have IDL 7.0
> > > installed. *IDL works fine, but when I try to run IDLDE, I receive the
> > > following error message:
>
> > > Failed to load idl_jdml from /usr/local/itt/idl70/idlde/bin.linux.x86
> > > (Use default IDL)
>
> > > I read somewhere that this problem might be fixed by one of these:
>
> > > yum install libstdc++.so.5
> > > yum install compat-libstdc++-33
>
> > > But I am still getting the same problem.
>
> > > The platform is 64 bit. *I'm pretty sure I installed the correct
> > > version of IDL.
>
> > > Any help appreciated.
>
> > > Thanks.
>
> > > -Jonathan- Hide quoted text -
>
> > - Show quoted text -
>
> We have released a patch for this issue that is discussed in IDL Tech
> Tip 4395 XULRunner patch for IDL 7.0:
>
> http://www.ittvis.com/services/techt...=INT&ttid=4395
>
> The Tech Tip describes the issue and provides a link where you can
> download the patch.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill Okubo
> IDL Product Manager
> ITT Visual Information Solutions
> bok...@ittvis.com
>
> www.ittvis.com/idl- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

My apologies, the correct link to access this patch is:

http://www.ittvis.com/services/techtip.asp?ttid=4395

Sorry for the confusion.

Bill