Hi Tom, This seem to be an oversight in the code — it tries to remake the tool-instance menu when RESTServer starts, and it obviously shouldn’t in the headless version (and/or nogui mode). I have committed a fix to the code. Please try tomorrow’s daily build and see if it works better.

—Eric

Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

On Mar 30, 2016, at 2:18 PM, tom@pine-biotech.com wrote:

Hi all,

Using the unsupported headless linux x64 installer, chimera-1.10.2-linux_x86_64_osmesa.bin, I can run Chimera at the command line but am having a very difficult time running the RESTServer extension. Using my ~/.chimera/preferences file from my OS X install where a location for Extensions was selected in the preferences and saved, and copied to linux and edited to contain the /opt/UCSF/Chimera64-1.10.2/share location instead, it does open a bunch of packages on start, unlike before when it refused to load any extension. However, it still cannot start RESTServer.

[root@dfw share]# chimera Package "DBPuppet" already exists and tool(s) in it will not be loaded [snip, for full output see http://pastebin.com/s3GH7mbz ]

...

start RESTServer

Starting extension 'RESTServer' failed

As such, the one reason I wanted to run Chimera headless on linux does not seem to work. I know it's unsupported so I'm not expecting anything, but perhaps this is something that can be resolved simply. I've done a few fruitless google searches and this mailing list kept coming up.

Thanks for your time, Tom _______________________________________________ Chimera-users mailing list: Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu Manage subscription: http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users