Could you try the patch located in the following tech tip:   http://www.ittvis.com/ser...echtip.asp?ttid=4395

Thanks mminari, Now I was able to get to see the eclipse window but then I got another fatal error obviously due to something else. Part of the error message is found below. Again your help would be greatly appreciated. Now that I looked more closely at the error message it refers to an ia-32 library file. However, if IA refers to the Itanium architecture, I am not running such a machine. It is a x86_64 machine. Is this the correct patch or is there another one? Have a great day, Conrad Fatal error initializing DML        Configuration info      IDL : /usr/local/itt/idl70/idlde/../bin/bin.linux.x86 (Use default IDL)      BML : /usr/local/itt/idl70/idlde/bin.linux.x86 (Use default IDL)      DML : /usr/local/itt/idl70/idlde/bin.linux.x86 (Use default IDL)      JDML: /usr/local/itt/idl70/idlde/bin.linux.x86 (Use default IDL)       com.rsi.jdml.LibraryLoadException: Failed to load idl_jdml from /usr/local/itt/idl70/idlde/bin.linux.x86      at com.rsi.jdml.PlatformSupport.loadNeededLibrary(PlatformSupport.java:170)      at com.rsi.jdml.PlatformSupport.loadLibraries(PlatformSupport.java:371)      at com.rsi.jdml.DMLAccess.initializeDML(DMLAccess.java:178)      at com.rsi.idldt.core.IDLProcessManager.initializeDML(IDLProcessManager.java:236)      at com.rsi.idldt.core.IDLProcessManager.createIDLProcess(IDLProcessManager.java:105)      at com.rsi.idldt.core.IDLDTCorePlugin$PostCoreBundleStartJob.run(IDLDTCorePlugin.java:242)      at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:55)   Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /usr/local/itt/idl70/idlde/bin.linux.x86/libidl_jdml.so: Can't load IA 32-bit .so on a IA 32-bit platform      at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)      at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1751)      at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1647)      at java.lang.Runtime.load0(Runtime.java:769)      at java.lang.System.load(System.java:968)      at com.rsi.jdml.PlatformSupport.loadExplicitLibrary(PlatformSupport.java:127)      at com.rsi.jdml.PlatformSupport.loadNeededLibrary(PlatformSupport.java:161)      ... 6 more

This is a common error when there is a missing library dependency.  Try this: Perform an ldd on the jdml file and look for the missing dependencies (the 'libidl' are expected to be 'not found' but others should be found): >ldd libidl_jdml.so The libXp* are some of the common libraries missing. Then they can install these libraries - and it is most commonly the 32-bit libraries missing but in a couple of instances it was the 64-bit libraries. This usually resolves the problem.

Ciao, Yes, I am missing a few libraries: libidl_dml.so => not found libidl.so.7.0 => not found         libidl_ops.so.7.0 => not found         libidl_ipcclient.so.7.0 => not found Are these IDL libraries? If so, where can I find them to install them? I also found this discussion... but I can't get to the patch: http://www.ittvis.com/ser...asp?db=INT&ttid=4395 Have a great day, Conrad

No those are the expected libraries that won't be found until you initialize IDL.  Can you post the listing of the results of the ldd command? That link takes you to the UXL Runner patch.  You did install this, yes?

Ooops! Just realised that the techtip you provided is the same one (but bad link) that I found. Sorry about that. Anyway, I still have not found the above mentioned libraries... hope that you have an idea. Have a great day, Conrad :)

Dear mminari, yes that worked! Sorry, but I found the patch, loaded any other libraries that were missing but kept running the ldd without first seeing if IDLDE worked! So I kept getting missing libraries... now the IDE works. Since you asked, here is the current output of ldd after the patch and after starting IDLDE at least once (see below). I never bothered to run IDLDE since there was always a missing library when I ran ldd. But it works! Have a great day, Conrad :) [root@dmapcbc bin]# ldd /usr/local/itt/idl70/idlde/bin.linux.x86/libidl_jdml.so         linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)         libidl_dml.so => not found         libidl.so.7.0 => not found         libidl_ops.so.7.0 => not found         libidl_ipcclient.so.7.0 => not found         libXp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXp.so.6 (0xf7d62000)         libXpm.so.4 => /usr/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0xf7d51000)         libXmu.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0xf7d3a000)         libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xf7d2a000)         libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXt.so.6 (0xf7cd2000)         libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0xf7cc8000)         libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0xf7cae000)         libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xf7bab000)         librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0xf7ba2000)         libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7b8b000)         libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xf7b7f000)         libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xf7b7a000)         libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xf7b53000)         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xf7a10000)         libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0xf7957000)         libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xf7954000)         libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xf794d000)         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x001c4000)