<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Eric Greisen updated #13069<br />
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Tek Server Window Minimized after starting aips<br />
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Ticket ID: 13069</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">URL: <a href="https://help.nrao.edu/staff/index.php?/Tickets/Ticket/View/13069">https://help.nrao.edu/staff/index.php?/Tickets/Ticket/View/13069</a></div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Name: Peter Breiding</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Email address: <a href="mailto:peter.breiding@mail.wvu.edu">peter.breiding@mail.wvu.edu</a></div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Creator: User</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Department: AIPS Data Reduction</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Staff (Owner): Eric Greisen</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Type: Issue</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Status: Open</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Priority: Default</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">SLA: NRAO E2E</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Template group: Default</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Created: 28 November 2018 09:24 AM</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Updated: 28 November 2018 11:23 AM</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Reply due: 30 November 2018 10:11 AM (1d 22h 47m)</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Resolution due: 23 August 2021 05:00 PM (999d 5h 36m)</div>
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You are confusing Tek with TV. Tek is a very old-fashioned emulation<br />of a Tektronix 4010/4012 cathode-ray display. It used to be way<br />faster than the TV, so aips has tools like TKPL to plot the lines from a<br />plot file on it.<br /><br />The TV on the other hand is now pretty fast and allows lots of grey-scale<br />and color displays such as UVPLT might generate with DOTV true. The<br />TV starts as an icon called AIPSTV and will show on your screen. The messages<br />from UVPLT tell me that the TV did not come up. I will copy the aipsmgr<br />FAQ about the usual problem on Macs. The messages when aips starts<br />up will tell you things like the Tv failing to come up.<br /><br />On the latest "leopard", "snow leopard", "lion", "mountain lion", and "yosemite" (X 10.5-10.10) systems, /etc/rc is gone and creating it will have no effect. You need to create an /etc/sysctl.conf file and put the values in it,<br /><br /> kern.sysv.shmmax=10485760<br /> kern.sysv.shmmin=1<br /> kern.sysv.shmmni=32<br /> kern.sysv.shmseg=8<br /> kern.sysv.shmall=4096<br /> <br />You should use the values you had when you were running tiger. Those could be in /Previous\ System/etc/rc, assuming you have "Previous System". So three different OS upgrades and three different ways to adjust the default shared memory. Note: You will need to reboot the system for the change in shared memory to take place. You can check if the shared memory changes happened by typing "sysctl kern.sysv" in a terminal or xterm window. Look for the kern.sysv.shm* values. If the values have not changed, make sure you haven't inadvertently left in "sysctl -w" in the /etc/sysctl.conf file or mis-typed one of the values. If the /etc/sysctl.conf file is not properly formatted, or shmmax is not an integer multiple of shmall, the shared memory will not be adjusted after the reboot. <br /><br /> Eric Greisen<br />
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