Dear Roberto, SHELXS is obsolete, you should use SHELXD to find heavy atoms. If CCP4 still has problems, it is very easy to run SHELXC/D/E from a command line or with HKL2MAP.
Best wishes, George Prof. George M. Sheldrick FRS Dept. Structural Chemistry, University of Goettingen, Tammannstr. 4, D37077 Goettingen, Germany Tel. +49-551-39-3021 or -3068 Fax. +49-551-39-22582 On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Roberto Battistutta wrote: > Dear All, > I have the following problem with CCP4 6.1.2 on Mac (OSX 10.5.8, Mac Pro 2 x > Quad-Core Intel Xeon) when running ShelxS - heavy atom search: > > #CCP4I TERMINATION STATUS 0 "child process exited abnormally" > > Thank you for help, > Bye > > > Roberto Battistutta > Associate Professor > Department of Chemistry > University of Padua > via Marzolo 1, 35131 Padova - ITALY > tel. +39.049.8275265/67 > fax. +39.049.8275239 > roberto.battistu...@unipd.it > www.chimica.unipd.it/roberto.battistutta/ > VIMM (Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine) > via Orus 2, 35129 Padova - ITALY > tel. +39.049.7923236 > fax +39.049.7923250 > www.vimm.it >