Hi all, I just installed icemcfd v10 in CentOS4.4 system , I can start icemcfd properly, but as I try to type in values (or texts)in icemcfd text field, then it seems that the keyboard not responding, I cannot type in any letter or number!!

My PC is IBM T40 .

Does anyone know the reason? or any solutions?

Thanks in advance

Tina

Is this happening in workbench on icemcfd standalone?

thanks, it's happened in icemcfd standalone

Are you running the 64bit version of centos?

Thanks for your reply.

No, it's 32bit version of CentOS . The icemcfd can start correctly, can mesh, can import ...., just cannot type in any letter or number in text field!

Even in my other PC(Desktop and laptop ) , all encountered the same situation.

I also noticed this problem in Icemcfd but only in Workbench mode (RHEL 4.4 64 bit). Standalone works fine.

I dont have a solution. Perhaps its related to the LANG setting.

OK, thanks anyway.

Yes, Joe , you're right!!! If I changed the LANG to English , then it's OK now! THANKS

Regards, Tina.

Which LANG string exactly did you use?

Joe, thanks for your help! I've done many trings:

1. I use zh_TW, it fails! 2. I switch to zh_CN, it works! 3. I switch to en_US, it works!

and I also found that, I don't need to boot system in en_US. I still boot Linux in zh_TW. but I just set environment variables before I execute icemcfd (sounds easier for me)

The exact steps of my doing is: (I'm in Ubuntu Linux OS) 1. add these two lines in /etc/environment

LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LANGUAGE="en_US:en"

and mark out the original lines #LANG="zh_TW.UTF-8" #LANGUAGE="zh_TW:zh"

2. every time I want to execute icemcfd :I just

$ source /etc/environment

3. then

$ icemcfd -cfx perfect to work!

And furthermore, I've tried many Linux distributions RHEL 4.x SuSe10 CenTOS 4.x Fedora Core 6.x Ubuntu 6.10

All have the same problems in zh_TW LANG ! But this is the way to overcome !

Another method,

before executing icemcfd , just

$ export LANG='en_US.UTF-8'

then it works also!