ROOT crashes on load

ROOT
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Hi,
I’m running root 3.10.02/slc3_ia32_gcc323 at CERN and at RAL (eg. remotely). When I run root the splash screen appears briefly and then I get returned to the shell prompt. At CERN I get a core.**** file, but not at RAL. I’ve looked about the web & this forum and found posts suggested adding X11.FindBestVisual to the ~/.rootrc:

Unix..Root.DynamicPath: .:$(ROOTSYS)/lib
Unix..Root.MacroPath: .:$(HOME)/RootMacros:$(ROOTSYS)/macros:$(HOME)/ORCA_8_8_0/lib/
slc3_ia32_gcc323/
X11.FindBestVisual: no

however this seems to have no effect. Any suggestions? I can’t change the root version (as it’s linked to the CMS software framework) for my work, however I can get root 4.00.08 to run at RAL. Would posting the core files be helpful?
Cheers
Simon

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Here’s the strace and the core file…
Simon.zip (55.4 KB)

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It is likely that the issue will be solved if you log into CERN with ‘ssh -Y’ (instead of ssh or ssh -X).

Cheers,
Philippe.

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Yup that seems to have done it, but only if I don’t setup the scram runtime - so there must be something funny getting set in the env too.
Cheers
Simon