Hi,

I was running Chimera 1.7s 64bit under Windows 7 64 bit, and all was fine until I started trying it with a 3D monitor. While I was playing with stereo options, Chimera crashed and now it gives me an error at launch and quits, so I cannot run it anymore.

I uninstalled it, deleted its preferences folder .chimera from AppData folder, cleaned up chimera occurences from registry and reinstalled the daily version, and it still doesn’t work!

After launch, the error window shows:

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Chimera Launcher Error

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chimera failed abnormally; the exit code was: 1.

Use the --debug command line option for the full error message.

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OK  

And if I launch it with the –debug option, this is what I can see in the terminal (command line):

Cannot execute 'gzip': no automatic decompression of .Z files

initializing general preferences

loading Tix

initializing graphics

create application

loading Pmw

creating main window

creating menus

creating toolbar

creating viewer

initializing OpenGL

initializing preferences

initializing dialogs

initializing COM

initializing extensions

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "c:\Program Files\Chimera 2013-01-11\share\__main__.py", line 69, in <mod

ule>

    value = chimeraInit.init(sys.argv)

  File "c:\Program Files\Chimera 2013-01-11\share\chimeraInit.py", line 651, in

init

    extraArgs = tkgui.finalizeGUI()

  File "c:\Program Files\Chimera 2013-01-11\share\chimera\tkgui.py", line 3623,

in finalizeGUI

    _firstStatus(lastVersion)

  File "c:\Program Files\Chimera 2013-01-11\share\chimera\tkgui.py", line 3528,

in _firstStatus

    statusline.show_status_line(True)

  File "c:\Program Files\Chimera 2013-01-11\share\chimera\statusline.py", line 3

98, in show_status_line

    status.show(show)

  File "c:\Program Files\Chimera 2013-01-11\share\chimera\statusline.py", line 1

18, in show

    self.frame.pack(expand=Tkinter.FALSE, side='bottom', fill=Tkinter.X, **kw)

  File "c:\Program Files\Chimera 2013-01-11\bin\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 180

8, in pack_configure

    + self._options(cnf, kw))

_tkinter.TclError: window ".106614152L.110482120L" isn't packed

Return code: 1

Press return or enter to to exit

I was planning to get something done this weekend, so I’d appreciate any replies.

Looking forward to the solution.

Thanks and have a nice weekend.

Gökhan