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I am currently trying to run NS2 on Ubuntu 18.04. Using the ns-allinone-2.35 package recommended by the main website (isi.edu), I am having a segmentation fault error when trying to run xgraph12.2. NS-2 and nam run fine - however, even when xgraph is 'installed' I get:

sdean@ubuntu:~/ns2/ns-allinone-2.35$ xgraph 
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I have gone through several tutorials on the web that are supposed to address this problem with no success. I HAVE set the PATH and LIBRARY variables correctly along with changing it to run gcc/g++ 4.8. I understand I am trying to run an old software package on a newer OS, but NS-3 did not do what we needed. I am open to using an older OS. However, I had errors with build-essentials autoconf automake libxmu-dev on Linux older systems.

As another hint, through trying a couple different remedies messing around, I get a lot of permission denied output. I try running as sudo but still no luck.

Thank you

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  • Check the core dump, you will get the issue there.
    – asktyagi
    Commented Jun 1, 2019 at 3:43

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Install Xgraph : sudo apt install Xgraph → You get a stable version 12.1 .

Testing Xgraph : $ cd ns-allinone-2.35/xgraph-12.2/examples/ && xgraph xgtest.xg .. And please note that 'xgraph' requires a file to open the "Xgraph GUI". I.e. $ xgraph does nothing.

"Permission denied" is a common error : If ns-allinone-2.xx was unpacked with 'sudo', or with a Windows© tool. Correct is :

$ tar xvf ns-allinone-2.35_gcc5.tar.gz

ns-allinone-2.35_gcc5.tar.gz, link https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7S255p3kFXNVVlxR0ZNRGVORjQ/view?usp=sharing → This is the 2014 update, for gcc/g++ versions 4.4 .. 5.3 .

ns2-INFO https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FCjn-9fkR7tKeqClUpHsleaEdnoKRZzq/view?usp=sharing

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  • Knud - thank you for the input. However, running sudo apt install Xgraph yields No package xgraph found Even running xgraph with a test still yields Segmentation Fault (core dumped) I have installed without using sudo and still get the same results.
    – Sam Dean
    Commented Jun 4, 2019 at 12:50
  • Knud - I have been able to rid the SegFault using the more updated NS2 tar file you provided. However, when I run the ./configure and make install I get problems. Specifcally: source='xgraph.c' object='xgraph.o' libtool=no \ DEPDIR=.deps depmode=none /bin/bash ./depcomp \ gcc-4.8 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -g -c xgraph.c /bin/bash: ./depcomp: No such file or directory Then running xgraph <testfile> I get Command 'xgraph' not found Would this also be responsible for some the failures running the test/validation suite?
    – Sam Dean
    Commented Jun 4, 2019 at 14:07
  • 300 ns2 patches drive.google.com/drive/folders/… → → When you add a patch, or do other changes to ns-2.35 : Use the "configure && make script" = 'install', in the top directory, ns-allinone-2.35/ : $ export CC=gcc-4.8 CXX=g++-4.8 && ./install
    – Knud Larsen
    Commented Jun 4, 2019 at 14:14
  • About xgraph-12.*/depcomp : Delete the link "depcomp" (if present), and do $ ln -s /usr/share/automake-*/depcomp
    – Knud Larsen
    Commented Jun 4, 2019 at 14:22
  • Knud - I appreciate the responses. I understand running in the top directory, but I am little confused on how the patches and the export commands relate to my issue. Could you provide a little more detail of how those commands relate to my xgraph? I am a little confused on the /decomp as well.
    – Sam Dean
    Commented Jun 4, 2019 at 14:29

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