Crash on Linux

[trmolugu@…]

The following bug report has been submitted:
Platform:        Linux-5.15.0-139-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.31
ChimeraX Version: 1.3 (2021-12-08 23:08:33 UTC)
Description
Last time you used ChimeraX it crashed.
Please describe steps that led to the crash here.
Fatal Python error: Aborted

Current thread 0x00007f54bcffd740 (most recent call first):
  File "/usr/lib/ucsf-chimerax/lib/python3.9/site-packages/chimerax/ui/gui.py", line 819 in rapid_access_shown
  File "/usr/lib/ucsf-chimerax/lib/python3.9/site-packages/chimerax/ui/gui.py", line 839 in showEvent
  File "/usr/lib/ucsf-chimerax/lib/python3.9/site-packages/chimerax/ui/gui.py", line 532 in __init__
  File "/usr/lib/ucsf-chimerax/lib/python3.9/site-packages/chimerax/ui/gui.py", line 220 in build
  File "/usr/lib/ucsf-chimerax/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ChimeraX_main.py", line 688 in init
  File "/usr/lib/ucsf-chimerax/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ChimeraX_main.py", line 1018 in 
  File "/usr/lib/ucsf-chimerax/lib/python3.9/runpy.py", line 87 in _run_code
  File "/usr/lib/ucsf-chimerax/lib/python3.9/runpy.py", line 197 in _run_module_as_main


Log:
UCSF ChimeraX version: 1.3 (2021-12-08)  
© 2016-2021 Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.  
How to cite UCSF ChimeraX  

> open /home/bionmr/Downloads/1PIN.pdb

1PIN.pdb title:  
PIN1 peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase from homo sapiens [more info...]  
  
Chain information for 1PIN.pdb #1  
---  
Chain | Description | UniProt  
A | PIN1 | PIN1_HUMAN  
  
Non-standard residues in 1PIN.pdb #1  
---  
1PG — 2-(2-{2-[2-(2-methoxy-ethoxy)-ethoxy]-ethoxy}-ethoxy)-ethanol  
SO4 — sulfate ion  
  

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OpenGL version: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 535.230.02
OpenGL renderer: Quadro RTX 5000/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Model: Precision 5820 Tower X-Series
OS: Ubuntu 20.04 focal
Architecture: 64bit ELF
Virutal Machine: none
CPU: 36 Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10980XE CPU @ 3.00GHz
Cache Size: 25344 KB
Memory:
	              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
	Mem:          125Gi       7.3Gi        91Gi       329Mi        26Gi       116Gi
	Swap:         2.0Gi          0B       2.0Gi

Graphics:
	65:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation TU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000] [10de:1eb0] (rev a1)	
	Subsystem: Dell TU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000] [1028:129f]	
	Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Locale: ('en_US', 'UTF-8')
PyQt5 5.15.2, Qt 5.15.2
Installed Packages:
    alabaster: 0.7.12
    appdirs: 1.4.4
    Babel: 2.9.1
    backcall: 0.2.0
    blockdiag: 2.0.1
    certifi: 2021.10.8
    cftime: 1.5.1.1
    charset-normalizer: 2.0.9
    ChimeraX-AddCharge: 1.2.2
    ChimeraX-AddH: 2.1.3
    ChimeraX-AlignmentAlgorithms: 2.0
    ChimeraX-AlignmentHdrs: 3.2
    ChimeraX-AlignmentMatrices: 2.0
    ChimeraX-Alignments: 2.2.3
    ChimeraX-AlphaFold: 1.0
    ChimeraX-AltlocExplorer: 1.0.1
    ChimeraX-AmberInfo: 1.0
    ChimeraX-Arrays: 1.0
    ChimeraX-Atomic: 1.31
    ChimeraX-AtomicLibrary: 4.2
    ChimeraX-AtomSearch: 2.0
    ChimeraX-AtomSearchLibrary: 1.0
    ChimeraX-AxesPlanes: 2.0
    ChimeraX-BasicActions: 1.1
    ChimeraX-BILD: 1.0
    ChimeraX-BlastProtein: 2.0
    ChimeraX-BondRot: 2.0
    ChimeraX-BugReporter: 1.0
    ChimeraX-BuildStructure: 2.6.1
    ChimeraX-Bumps: 1.0
    ChimeraX-BundleBuilder: 1.1
    ChimeraX-ButtonPanel: 1.0
    ChimeraX-CageBuilder: 1.0
    ChimeraX-CellPack: 1.0
    ChimeraX-Centroids: 1.2
    ChimeraX-ChemGroup: 2.0
    ChimeraX-Clashes: 2.2.2
    ChimeraX-ColorActions: 1.0
    ChimeraX-ColorGlobe: 1.0
    ChimeraX-ColorKey: 1.5
    ChimeraX-CommandLine: 1.1.5
    ChimeraX-ConnectStructure: 2.0
    ChimeraX-Contacts: 1.0
    ChimeraX-Core: 1.3
    ChimeraX-CoreFormats: 1.1
    ChimeraX-coulombic: 1.3.2
    ChimeraX-Crosslinks: 1.0
    ChimeraX-Crystal: 1.0
    ChimeraX-CrystalContacts: 1.0
    ChimeraX-DataFormats: 1.2.2
    ChimeraX-Dicom: 1.0
    ChimeraX-DistMonitor: 1.1.5
    ChimeraX-DistUI: 1.0
    ChimeraX-Dssp: 2.0
    ChimeraX-EMDB-SFF: 1.0
    ChimeraX-ExperimentalCommands: 1.0
    ChimeraX-FileHistory: 1.0
    ChimeraX-FunctionKey: 1.0
    ChimeraX-Geometry: 1.1
    ChimeraX-gltf: 1.0
    ChimeraX-Graphics: 1.1
    ChimeraX-Hbonds: 2.1.2
    ChimeraX-Help: 1.2
    ChimeraX-HKCage: 1.3
    ChimeraX-IHM: 1.1
    ChimeraX-ImageFormats: 1.2
    ChimeraX-IMOD: 1.0
    ChimeraX-IO: 1.0.1
    ChimeraX-ItemsInspection: 1.0
    ChimeraX-Label: 1.1
    ChimeraX-LinuxSupport: 1.0
    ChimeraX-ListInfo: 1.1.1
    ChimeraX-Log: 1.1.4
    ChimeraX-LookingGlass: 1.1
    ChimeraX-Maestro: 1.8.1
    ChimeraX-Map: 1.1
    ChimeraX-MapData: 2.0
    ChimeraX-MapEraser: 1.0
    ChimeraX-MapFilter: 2.0
    ChimeraX-MapFit: 2.0
    ChimeraX-MapSeries: 2.1
    ChimeraX-Markers: 1.0
    ChimeraX-Mask: 1.0
    ChimeraX-MatchMaker: 2.0.4
    ChimeraX-MDcrds: 2.6
    ChimeraX-MedicalToolbar: 1.0.1
    ChimeraX-Meeting: 1.0
    ChimeraX-MLP: 1.1
    ChimeraX-mmCIF: 2.4
    ChimeraX-MMTF: 2.1
    ChimeraX-Modeller: 1.2.6
    ChimeraX-ModelPanel: 1.2.1
    ChimeraX-ModelSeries: 1.0
    ChimeraX-Mol2: 2.0
    ChimeraX-Morph: 1.0
    ChimeraX-MouseModes: 1.1
    ChimeraX-Movie: 1.0
    ChimeraX-Neuron: 1.0
    ChimeraX-NIHPresets: 1.0.6
    ChimeraX-Nucleotides: 2.0.2
    ChimeraX-OpenCommand: 1.7
    ChimeraX-PDB: 2.6.5
    ChimeraX-PDBBio: 1.0
    ChimeraX-PDBImages: 1.1
    ChimeraX-PDBLibrary: 1.0.2
    ChimeraX-PDBMatrices: 1.0
    ChimeraX-Phenix: 0.3
    ChimeraX-PickBlobs: 1.0
    ChimeraX-Positions: 1.0
    ChimeraX-PresetMgr: 1.0.1
    ChimeraX-PubChem: 2.1
    ChimeraX-ReadPbonds: 1.0.1
    ChimeraX-Registration: 1.1
    ChimeraX-RemoteControl: 1.0
    ChimeraX-ResidueFit: 1.0
    ChimeraX-RestServer: 1.1
    ChimeraX-RMF: 0.11
    ChimeraX-RNALayout: 1.0
    ChimeraX-RotamerLibMgr: 2.0.1
    ChimeraX-RotamerLibsDunbrack: 2.0
    ChimeraX-RotamerLibsDynameomics: 2.0
    ChimeraX-RotamerLibsRichardson: 2.0
    ChimeraX-SaveCommand: 1.5
    ChimeraX-SchemeMgr: 1.0
    ChimeraX-SDF: 2.0
    ChimeraX-Segger: 1.0
    ChimeraX-Segment: 1.0
    ChimeraX-SelInspector: 1.0
    ChimeraX-SeqView: 2.4.6
    ChimeraX-Shape: 1.0.1
    ChimeraX-Shell: 1.0
    ChimeraX-Shortcuts: 1.1
    ChimeraX-ShowAttr: 1.0
    ChimeraX-ShowSequences: 1.0
    ChimeraX-SideView: 1.0
    ChimeraX-Smiles: 2.1
    ChimeraX-SmoothLines: 1.0
    ChimeraX-SpaceNavigator: 1.0
    ChimeraX-StdCommands: 1.6.1
    ChimeraX-STL: 1.0
    ChimeraX-Storm: 1.0
    ChimeraX-Struts: 1.0
    ChimeraX-Surface: 1.0
    ChimeraX-SwapAA: 2.0
    ChimeraX-SwapRes: 2.1
    ChimeraX-TapeMeasure: 1.0
    ChimeraX-Test: 1.0
    ChimeraX-TestManager: 0.3
    ChimeraX-Toolbar: 1.1
    ChimeraX-ToolshedUtils: 1.2
    ChimeraX-Tug: 1.0
    ChimeraX-UI: 1.2.1
    ChimeraX-uniprot: 2.2
    ChimeraX-UnitCell: 1.0
    ChimeraX-ViewDockX: 1.0.1
    ChimeraX-VIPERdb: 1.0
    ChimeraX-Vive: 1.1
    ChimeraX-VolumeMenu: 1.0
    ChimeraX-VTK: 1.0
    ChimeraX-WavefrontOBJ: 1.0
    ChimeraX-WebCam: 1.0
    ChimeraX-WebServices: 1.0
    ChimeraX-Zone: 1.0
    colorama: 0.4.4
    cxservices: 1.1
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    decorator: 5.1.0
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    funcparserlib: 0.3.6
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    h5py: 3.6.0
    html2text: 2020.1.16
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    imagesize: 1.3.0
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    line-profiler: 3.3.0
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[Eric Pettersen]

Reported by Trivikram Molugu

[Greg Couch]

If you can reproduce this, install gdb if it isn't already installed, and run "gdb /usr/bin/chimerax" from a terminal. Then get ChimeraX to crash, and, at the (gdb) prompt, give the "bt" command to get the backtrace and send that to us. And with that information, I should be able to figure more about why it crashes.

But, you're running an ancient version of ChimeraX on an ancient version of Ubuntu. Ubuntu 20.04's end of life was May 31, 2025, and ChimeraX 1.3 is from December 2021. So the recommendation is that you upgrade both, first Ubuntu, then ChimeraX. There have been lots of improvements over the years.