Mathematica 7 license manager

[Rich Winkel]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:23:04PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> Rich Winkel <rich at math.missouri.edu> writes:
> > I'm trying to run mathlm for mathematica version 7 under linux_base-fc-4_13 on
> > freebsd 7.1-release-p7.
> >
> > It demonizes and appears to be happy until I try to run mathematica,
> > then it crashes with signal 11.  Even running monitorlm causes it
> > to crash.  Maxing out the loglevel doesn't produce any more info.
> >
> > Looking at the last access times in /compat/linux/etc, it opens host.conf,
> > ld.so.cache and nsswitch.conf before dying.  
> >
> > Has anyone seen this before?  Any help would be much appreciated!!
> 
> As for me I can say that there were many changes to linuxulator
> not only at FreeBSD-7.2 but at 7-STABLE. Can you try it or even
> 8-BETA and report back? BTW, 8-BETA has linux_base-f10 as a default
> linux base port.

I talked to their tech support today.  It turns out it made assumptions
about the availability of IP6, which I don't have enabled.  Version
7.01 works fine.

Rich