<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><i class="">Dear Aips staff,</i></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><i class="">I'm a Japanese student learning astronomy.</i></div><div class=""><i class="">I 'm trouble with starting aips. Could you give me some advice?</i></div><div class=""><i class="">I tried to start aips but the error occurred 'AIPS TV Shared memory id failure: Invalid <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>argument' and the tv didn't come.</i></div><div class=""><i class="">So I looked for solution and I found the same error '<a href="https://listmgr.nrao.edu/pipermail/daip/2014-June/020373.html" class="">https://listmgr.nrao.edu/pipermail/daip/2014-June/020373.html</a>'</i></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><i class="">I tried to follow this solution but It didn't work.</i></div><div class=""><i class="">Concretely, I changed <span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">kern.sysv.shmmax=10485760 to 16777216, re-boot the computer after creating the /etc/sysctl.conf file with 16777216 value for shmmax, and typed sysctl </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">kern.sysv. Then, I also checked by </span></i><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><i class="">sysctl kern.sysv. </i></span><i style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The result is listed as below</i></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><div class=""><i class="">kern.sysv.shmmax: 16777216</i></div><div class=""><i class="">kern.sysv.shmmin: 1</i></div><div class=""><i class="">kern.sysv.shmmni: 32</i></div><div class=""><i class="">kern.sysv.shmseg: 8</i></div><div class=""><i class="">kern.sysv.shmall: 4096</i></div><div class=""><i class="">kern.sysv.semmni: 87381</i></div><div class=""><i class="">kern.sysv.semmns: 87381</i></div><div class=""><i class="">kern.sysv.semmnu: 87381</i></div><div class=""><i class="">kern.sysv.semmsl: 87381</i></div><div class=""><i class="">kern.sysv.semume: 10</i></div></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><i class="">I use Mac os High Sierra version 10.13.3.</i></div><div class=""><i class="">Please give me some advise.</i></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><i class="">Sincerely,</i></div><div class=""><i class="">Shuichiro Tsuda</i></div><div class=""><i class=""> </i></div><div class=""><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><i class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">The error information is as follows:</font></i></pre></div><div class=""><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">START_AIPS: Will use or start first available Unix Socket based TV</font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">START_AIPS: Your initial AIPS printer is the</font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">START_AIPS: - system name , AIPS type</font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class=""><br class=""></font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">START_AIPS: User data area assignments:</font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">DADEVS.PL: This program is untested under Perl version 5.018</font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class=""> (Using global default file /Users/shu/aips/DA00/DADEVS.LIST for DADEVS.PL)</font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class=""> /usr/local/aips/DATA/LOCALHOST_1 is currently unavailable.</font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class=""> Disk 1 (1) is /Users/shu/aips/DATA/LOCALHOST_1</font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class=""><br class=""></font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">Tape assignments:</font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class=""> Tape 1 is REMOTE</font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class=""> Tape 2 is REMOTE</font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class=""><br class=""></font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">START_AIPS: Starting TV servers on localhost asynchronously</font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">START_AIPS: - WITH Unix Sockets as requested...</font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">START_AIPS: Starting TPMON daemons on LOCALHOST asynchronously...</font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">Starting up 31DEC18 AIPS with normal priority</font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">Begin the one true AIPS number 2 (release of 31DEC18) at priority = 0</font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">AIPS 2: You are not on a local TV device, welcome stranger</font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">AIPS 2: You are assigned TV device/server 2</font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">AIPS 2: You are assigned graphics device/server 2</font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">AIPS 2: Enter user ID number</font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">?DADEVS.PL: This program is untested under Perl version 5.018</font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">UNIXSERVERS: TVSRV1 is already running on host localhost, user shu</font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">UNIXSERVERS: Start XAS1 on localhost, DISPLAY /private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.OlmnfiuhEC/org.macosforge.xquartz:0</font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">UNIXSERVERS: Start graphics server TKSRV1 on localhost, display /private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.OlmnfiuhEC/org.macosforge.xquartz:0</font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">STARTPMON: [LOCALHOST] Starting TPMON1 with output SUPPRESSED</font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">ZVTPO3: tcp/aipsmt0 is not a service</font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">ZVTPO3: check /etc/services or NIS map!</font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">UNIXSERVERS: Start message server MSSRV1 on localhost, display /private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.OlmnfiuhEC/org.macosforge.xquartz:0</font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">XAS: ** TrueColor FOUND!!!</font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">XAS: *** Using shared memory option for speed ***</font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">XAS: Using screen width 2708 height 1858,</font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class=""> max grey level 8191 in 16 grey-scale memories</font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">Shared memory id failure: Invalid argument</font></i></div></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class=""><br class=""></font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class=""><div class="">AIPS 2: Enter user ID number</div><div class="">?2</div><div class="">AIPS 2: 31DEC18 AIPS:</div><div class="">AIPS 2: Copyright (C) 1995-2018 Associated Universities, Inc.</div><div class="">AIPS 2: AIPS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY;</div><div class="">AIPS 2: for details, type HELP GNUGPL</div><div class="">AIPS 2: This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it</div><div class="">AIPS 2: under certain conditions; type EXPLAIN GNUGPL for details.</div><div class="">AIPS 2: Previous session command-line history recovered.</div><div class="">AIPS 2: TAB-key completions enabled, type HELP READLINE for details.</div><div class="">AIPS 2: Recovered POPS environment from last exit</div><div class="">></div></font></i></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""></div>
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