# Crash in the Surface Engine **URL:** \ **Category:** Development\ **Created:** [March 10, 2008, 3:10pm UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/crash-in-the-surface-engine/894 "2008-03-10T15:10:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
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Bugs item #1911138, was opened at 2008-03-10 16:10 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: [https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=835077&aid=1911138&group\_id=165310](https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=835077&aid=1911138&group_id=165310) Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Commands / Extensions Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 6 Private: No Submitted By: Carsten Niehaus (cniehaus) Assigned to: Marcus D. Hanwell (cryosuk) Summary: Crash in the Surface Engine. Initial Comment: I created several molecule (all only C and H atom) and tried to crash Avogadro. VDW and Surface engine was active. Latest OB and Avogadro. Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 0xb41b7b90 (LWP 15493)] 0xb7d81245 in OpenBabel::OBAtom::GetVector (this=0x8337534) at atom.cpp:336 336 \_v.Set((_\_c)[\_cidx],(_\_c)[\_cidx+1],(\*\_c)[\_cidx+2]); Current language: auto; currently c++ (gdb) bt #0 0xb7d81245 in OpenBabel::OBAtom::GetVector (this=0x8337534) at atom.cpp:336 #1 0xb6732fb2 in Avogadro::VDWGridThread::run () from /home/kde-devel/kde/build/avo-git/libavogadro/src/engines/libsurfaceengine.so #2 0xb716acc7 in QThreadPrivate::start () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4 #3 0xb70e6192 in start\_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 #4 0xb6df702e in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6 * * * You can respond by visiting: [https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=835077&aid=1911138&group\_id=165310](https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=835077&aid=1911138&group_id=165310)