LabVIEW caught fatal signal - Segmentation fault

Question

Hi,
I've just obtained the Linux version of LabVIEW 7.0 from my University for academic use on my home PC, and I am having some difficulty getting the program to run. I've installed all of the "labview70-*.rpm" files into "/opt" using the "bin/INSTALL.norpm" from the CD (I am running Gentoo and don't have RPM support).
When I try to run the program (cd /opt/lv70, ./labview), I get the splash screen, which says "Init temp resources file" in the bottom right corner. This stays on screen for about a minute, during which time, my RAM usage gradually goes very high, followed by my SWAP usage when the available RAM runs out (256MB RAM, 500MB SWAP). This happens regardless of whether I'm logged in as a normal user or as r
oot.
The splash screen eventually disappears and the following message is printed at the terminal:
LabVIEW caught fatal signal
7.0 - Received SIGSEGV
Reason: address not mapped to object
Attempt to reference address: 0x70126d74
Segmentation fault
I have checked the FAQs and knowledge base but can't seem to find anything that sounds similar to what is happening on my machine.
My system is as follows:
Athlon 1800+ XP
256MB RAM
Gentoo Linux 2.4.22-r2
500MB SWAP partition
24GB free space on hard disk
Cheers,
Martin

Answer 1

Hey Martin,
This is a new one for me. Try replaying your INSTALL and bin/INSTALL.norpm files with the one's that I've attached. They work well on my Debian machine (no rpm). That way you can run "./INSTALL" instead of INSTALL.norpm (which was only meant to be a helper app, not a primary method for installation.)
As you probably know, reproducing a gentoo issue may be difficult because of the extreme customization. Is there anything uncommon that you might be doing? (using a locale other than C or POSIX, using a different threading library, etc.)
Duffey
Attachments:
INSTALL ‏22 KB
INSTALL.norpm ‏2 KB