[phenixbb] Problems with opening Coot and Firefox from gui under RHEL 6.2

[Nathaniel Echols]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 7:27 AM, Paul Emsley <paul.emsley at bioch.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> Another option might be that it is somehow picking up an old coot - and the
> communication dependences are not in place - however, I thought the Phenix
> gui guards against this possibility.

Not really - the rules are:

1. If the path to coot is defined in Preferences, it uses that;
2. Otherwise, if "coot" is a valid command in the shell's search path, use that;
3. Finally, look for various common places where Coot might be
expected (this is usually only necessary on Mac) for a "coot"
executable.

I may have some idea what is breaking here; will check again in a few
hours (first I need coffee).  Peter: what is the terminal output when
you click the Coot icon?

-Nat