<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear DAIP, <div><br></div><div><div>I am installing AIPS in a Macbook Pro with Mac OS X 10.6.3.</div><div>I followed your nice cookbook in the AIPS webpages, and everything seems to have worked well, </div><div>except for the following things</div><div><br></div><div><div>1.- For some reason, setting the DISPLAY does not allow to run AIPS. Let me explain:</div><div><br></div><div>If I set up the variable as: </div><div><br></div><div>setenv DISPLAY :0.0 </div><div>or</div><div>setenv DISPLAY localhost:0, </div><div><br></div><div>I then type </div><div>aips, and I get the following</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6"><br></font></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6">START_AIPS: I am GUESSING you are at a workstation called localhost</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6">START_AIPS: Starting TV servers on localhost asynchronously</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6">START_AIPS: - with Internet Sockets...</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6">START_AIPS: Starting TPMON daemons on LOCALHOST asynchronously...</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6">Starting up 31DEC10 AIPS with normal priority</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6">Begin the one true AIPS number 2 (release of 31DEC10) at priority = 0 </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6">AIPS 1: ZDCHIN: NO NETSP ENTRY FOR DA0B</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6">AIPS 2: You are assigned TV device/server 1</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6">AIPS 2: You are assigned graphics device/server 1</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6">AIPS 2: Enter user ID number</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6">?DADEVS.PL: This program is untested under Perl version 5.010</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6">XASERVERS: Start TV LOCK daemon TVSERV on localhost</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6">TVSERVER: Starting AIPS TV locking, Inet domain</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6">XASERVERS: Start XAS on localhost, DISPLAY :0</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6">XAS: ** TrueColor FOUND!!! </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6">XAS: *** Using shared memory option for speed ***</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6">XAS: Using screen width 1270 height 678,</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6"> max grey level 8191 in 16 grey-scale memories</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6">XASERVERS: Start graphics server TEKSRV on localhost, DISPLAY :0</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6">XASERVERS: Start message server MSGSRV on localhost, DISPLAY :0</font></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6">AIPS 2: Enter user ID number</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6">?5876</font></div><div><br></div></div></div><div>At this point, AIPS doesn't run any further. In addition, the MSGSRV and the TV run OK, but the TVSERV complains as follows:</div><div><br></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6">xgterm: Can't execvp </font></div><div><br></div><div>and doesn't work. And this in spite of having removed the usual lines in the UNIXSERVERS and XASERVERS files, following your recommendations of a few years ago:</div><div><br></div><div><div> *csh)</div><div> ($AIPS_TEK_EMULATOR -display $DISPLAY \</div><div> $AIPS_TEK_NAME_FLAG $AIPS_TEK_EXE_FLAG \</div><div> "setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH $LD_LIBRARY_PATH ;$LOAD/TEKSRV.EXE" &) ;;</div><div><br></div><div>removing the setenv command. You may even have to remove the "'s.</div><div><br></div><div>Those lines read now as follows:</div><div><br></div><div><div>*csh)</div><div> ($AIPS_TEK_EMULATOR -display $DISPLAY \</div><div> $AIPS_TEK_NAME_FLAG $AIPS_TEK_EXE_FLAG \</div><div> &) ;;</div><div><br></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>The only way to make it run is by typing </div><div>aips tv=local, but then I get a funny complain about xgterm that I cannot understand</div><div><br></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6">UNIXSERVERS: Start message server MSSRV2 on localhost, display :0</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6">Trying to make hard link MSSRV2 to MSGSRV.EXE ...</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6">xgterm: bad command line option "-e"</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6">usage: xgterm [-help] [-display displayname] [-geometry geom] [-G geom]</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6"> [-/+rv] [-bg color] [-fg color] [-bd color] [-bw number] [-fn fontname]</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6"> [-iconic] [-name string] [-title string] [-xrm resourcestring] [-/+132]</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6"> [-/+ah] [-b number] [-/+cb] [-cc classrange] [-/+cn] [-cr color] [-/+cu]</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6"> [-/+dc] [-/+sbr] [-fb fontname] [-/+im] [-/+j] [-/+l] [-lf filename]</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6"> [-/+ls] [-/+mb] [-mc milliseconds] [-ms color] [-nb number] [-/+aw] [-/+rw]</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6"> [-/+s] [-/+sb] [-/+sf] [-/+si] [-/+sk] [-sl number] [-tm string] [-tn name]</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6"> [-/+ut] [-/+vb] [-/+wf] [-e command args ...] [%geom] [#geom] [-T string]</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6"> [-n string] [-C] [-Sxxd]</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6">Type xgterm -help for a full description.</font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div>In addition, in this case the xgterm does not appear at all.</div><div>If I modify the AIPS_TEK_EMULATOR to</div><div><br></div><div>setenv AIPS_TEK_EMULATOR xterm</div><div><br></div><div>and run again aips: aips tv=local</div><div><br></div><div>I get the same complaint:</div><div><br></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6">xterm: bad command line option "-e"</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6">usage: xterm [-/+132] [-C] [-Sccn] [-T string] [-/+ah] [-/+ai] [-/+aw]</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6"> [-b number] [-/+bc] [-bcf milliseconds] [-bcn milliseconds] [-bd color]</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6"> [-/+bdc] [-bg color] [-bw number] [-/+cb] [-cc classrange] [-/+cjk_width]</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6"> [-class string] [-/+cm] [-/+cn] [-cr color] [-/+cu] [-/+dc]</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6"> [-display displayname] [-e command args ...] [-fa pattern] [-fb fontname]</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6"> [-/+fbb] [-/+fbx] [-fd pattern] [-fg color] [-fi fontname] [-fn fontname]</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6"> [-fs size] [-fw fontname] [-fwb fontname] [-fx fontname] [%geom] [#geom]</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6"> [-geometry geom] [-help] [-/+hm] [-/+hold] [-iconic] [-/+ie] [-/+im]</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6"> [-into windowId] [-/+j] [-/+k8] [-kt keyboardtype] [-/+l] [-/+lc]</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6"> [-lcc path] [-leftbar] [-lf filename] [-/+ls] [-/+maximized] [-/+mb]</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6"> [-mc milliseconds] [-/+mesg] [-/+mk_width] [-ms color] [-n string]</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6"> [-name string] [-nb number] [-/+nul] [-/+pc] [-/+pob] [-rightbar] [-/+rv]</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6"> [-/+rvc] [-/+rw] [-/+s] [-/+samename] [-/+sb] [-selbg color] [-selfg color]</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6"> [-/+sf] [-/+si] [-/+sk] [-sl number] [-/+sm] [-/+sp] [-/+t] [-ti termid]</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6"> [-title string] [-tm string] [-tn name] [-/+u8] [-/+uc] [-/+ulc] [-/+ulit]</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6"> [-/+ut] [-/+vb] [-version] [-/+wc] [-/+wf] [-xrm resourcestring]</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6"> [-ziconbeep percent]</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2CF6">Type xterm -help for a full description.</font></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>Any hint of why it complains about an option I don't use (apparently)? I thought the responsible thing were the "'s I removed in the {UNIX,XA}SERVERS files, but it doesn't seem to be that, either. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance for your help!</div><div>Miguel</div></div></div><div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div>
<br>Dr. Miguel-Angel Perez-Torres <a href="http://www.iaa.es/~torres">http://www.iaa.es/~torres</a><br>Research Scientist Office: +34-958 23 06 44<br>Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucía Fax: +34-958 81 45 30<br>C/ Camino Bajo de Huetor, 50 E-18008 Granada, Spain<br><br><br>
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