Labview crashes under Fedora Core 3

[Alan Stern]

I just installed Labview 7.1 on my FC3 system.  When I try to run it, the splash page appears and then after about a minute the program crashes with the message:

*** glibc detected *** realloc(): invalid next size: 0x1ca3c070 ***
Aborted

Is this a known problem in glibc-2.3.5, a known problem in Labview, or something else?

[jonny e]

Hi Alan-

I'm not sure about your FC3 problem, but I can tell you that I *endless* problems with Labview and Redhat 9.0. 

After many years of referring people to comedi for 3rd party drivers, which are a nice start, but are very buggy, NI finally seems to have a set of drivers it supports on it's own.  Don't know how they work, because I never tried them;  when I finally got fed up, I went back to MS (ugh).

Anyway, just a caveat. 

Hope you are able to find an easy fix for your particular problem.

[Philip_Courtois]

Hi Alan,

LabVIEW 7.1 officially only supports Linux Kernel 2.0.x, 2.2.x and 2.4.x. As far as I know, Fedora 3 needs the 2.6.x kernel, so you should not expect LabVIEW to work on that machine. In case you still want to troubleshoot, make sure to install LabVIEW without any drivers to start with. Then if that works you should install a driver at a time while continuously checking for errors.

Message Edited by Philip C. on 07-27-2005 02:00 AM

[mandreot]

Hi everybody,
I'd like to say you something about my experience with labview on Fedora Core 3 (FC3),
maybe what I'm saying is obvious for the experts, but I'm not so expert.

I'm able to run labview 8.0 on FC3, but in order to have a correct behavior it is necessary to
update the National Instrument Drivers using the executable that by default is installed by labview8 in
/usr/local/bin/updateNIDrivers

I updated FC3 at the kernel-2.6.12-1.1318_FC3 and I had problems with NI Finder Examples running the labview8.0
installed with kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3. the problem was "NI Finder Examples timed out", and also opening directly the vi
labview crashed.
then I solved the problem updating the NI drivers.

hope this can be useful,

ciao

mirco