Attempting to start q console immediately exits, no error or hint

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Whenever I execute “q”, it seems to immediately crash, but I have no idea why.  There’s no logs or helpful output or any relevant documentation that I can find.

I’m on a RHEL 6 machine trying to use the free 32-bit version.  This is what I get:

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user1@mybox[scratch]$ q/l32/q

KDB+ 3.2 2014.11.01 Copyright (C) 1993-2014 Kx Systems

l32/ 8()core 15857MB user1 mybox.lol.com 123.456.78.90 NONEXPIRE  

'assign

@

“k”

"count:#:;first:*:;var:{avg x*x-:avg x};dev:{sqrt var x};med:{avg x(<x)@_.5*-..

user1@mybox[scratch]$

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I have no idea what that output is.  Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong?  What can I try?

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looks you have a q.k file from an older version. You should use the q.k file found in the download zip.
If you are using the default location for install, i.e. $HOME/q

put the q.k file in $HOME/q

otherwise if you have a custom location, set via the env var QHOME, put q.k in $QHOME