[xcrysden] Issues running XCrySDen for the first time (package require BWidget)

Enrique Lugo g7_lugo18 at ens.cnyn.unam.mx
Tue Oct 6 17:26:23 CEST 2020


Now that I moved to a directory that contains no spaces, and while using
the startx I receive this error message:
*couldn't fork child process: resource temporarily unavailable*
Enrique  Lugo Martínez

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El mar., 6 oct. 2020 a las 2:34, Tone Kokalj (<tone.kokalj at ijs.si>)
escribió:

> On Mon, 2020-10-05 at 22:58 -0500, Enrique Lugo wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am a new user and am having difficulty running XCrySDen for the
> > first time.
> > I'm using the pre-compiled Cygwin version 1.6.2. I believe I've
> > installed all of the required packaged through the
> > Cygwin installer. Here is what I see after I start an Xterm and send
> > the ./xcrysden command within the parent,
> > unpackaged tar.gz directory
> > $ ./xcrysden
> > ./xcrysden: line 65: cd: too many arguments
> >
> > XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR=/cygdrive/c/Users/ENRIQUE LUGO/Documents/Materias
> > (UNAM)/7mo Semestre/Simulaciones Computacionales/xcrysden-1.6.2-bin-
> > shared
>
> The problem is that you have spaces in your directory names (e.g
> "ENRIQUE LUGO", "Materias (UNAM)", ...). This is a very bad idea on
> Unix systems, as it is likely to break many things, not just xcrysden.
>
> Install xcrysden to some directory that does not contain the spaces.
>
> Best regards,
> Tone
> --
> Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
>
>
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