[Chimera-users] Issues loading RESTServer extension on Headless Linux installation

[Eric Pettersen]

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 at 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 at 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
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