Thinker 5.4d and Linux - getting error

[royb]

When I run thinker-5.4d (inert version, single processor version) under xboard and wine, thinker crashes immediately after my second move (as white) in a game. My OSes are 32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu (multiple systems).

Have others seen this? Is there no way to run Thinker under Linux?

Thanks in advance for any help on this,

Roy

[Matthias Gemuh]

When I run thinker-5.4d (inert version, single processor version) under xboard and wine, thinker crashes immediately after my second move (as white) in a game. My OSes are 32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu (multiple systems).

Have others seen this? Is there no way to run Thinker under Linux?

Thanks in advance for any help on this,

Roy

How can Thinker crash ?
It has a uniquely clean design. Crashing should be impossible.

Matthias.

[glorfindel]

When I run thinker-5.4d (inert version, single processor version) under xboard and wine, thinker crashes immediately after my second move (as white) in a game. My OSes are 32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu (multiple systems).

Have others seen this? Is there no way to run Thinker under Linux?

Thanks in advance for any help on this,

Roy

From time to time I see crashes like the one you describe with several engines under wine. But Thinker works for me. I run it like this

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$>xboard -fd /home/christos/chess/engines/Thinker -fcp ./runThinker.sh

where runThinker.sh contains only one line

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wine ./thinker

and it is executable ($>chmod +x runThinker.sh).

You could add the option -debug when running XBoard, to get more information about the error. You should be running the x86 version.

[royb]

When I run thinker-5.4d (inert version, single processor version) under xboard and wine, thinker crashes immediately after my second move (as white) in a game. My OSes are 32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu (multiple systems).

Have others seen this? Is there no way to run Thinker under Linux?

Thanks in advance for any help on this,

Roy

How can Thinker crash ?
It has a uniquely clean design. Crashing should be impossible.

Matthias.

I cannot offer any insight into why it crashes. The error that xboard displays is this:

Fatal Error: first chess program exited unexpectedly.
Fatal Error: Error writing to first chess program: Broken pipe

Roy

[Matthias Gemuh]

How can Thinker crash ?
It has a uniquely clean design. Crashing should be impossible.

Matthias.

I cannot offer any insight into why it crashes. The error that xboard displays is this:

Fatal Error: first chess program exited unexpectedly.
Fatal Error: Error writing to first chess program: Broken pipe

Roy

It is not from you that I expect an answer
The PV is being supressed to guarantee stability and elegance.

Matthias.

[royb]

When I run thinker-5.4d (inert version, single processor version) under xboard and wine, thinker crashes immediately after my second move (as white) in a game. My OSes are 32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu (multiple systems).

Have others seen this? Is there no way to run Thinker under Linux?

Thanks in advance for any help on this,

Roy

From time to time I see crashes like the one you describe with several engines under wine. But Thinker works for me. I run it like this

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$>xboard -fd /home/christos/chess/engines/Thinker -fcp ./runThinker.sh

where runThinker.sh contains only one line

Code: Select all

wine ./thinker

and it is executable ($>chmod +x runThinker.sh).

You could add the option -debug when running XBoard, to get more information about the error. You should be running the x86 version.

Christos - thanks for the assist. The way you have it set up works for me though I cannot see why there is a difference; that is not important!

Thanks again.

Roy

[glorfindel]

The way you have it set up works for me though I cannot see why there is a difference; that is not important!

Probably because wine needs to be started from within the directory where the engine is, else it gives an error that it could not load the binary.