[daip] AIPS installation trouble

[Patrick P. Murphy]

On Tue, 9 May 2000 13:56:58 +0900, NAKANO Makoto
   <mnakano at oita-cc.cc.oita-u.ac.jp> said: 

> I am now trying to install AIPS 15OCT99 in my machine.

You may want to read what we now say on the AIPS web page
(www.cv.nrao.edu/aips/) about 15OCT99 and 31DEC99.

> After normal installation procedure, we tried to start aips
> as follows.  What is wrong ?

> TPMON1: error in loading shared libraries
> : undefined symbol: __bzero

You are right below in saying this can be ignored for now; it is, however,
a red flag indicating some system problem.  You can do this:

  ldd $LOAD/TPMON.EXE

to see if there is a missing shared library that the AIPS binaries require
which isw not present on your system.

> AIPS 1: TAB-key completions enabled, type HELP READLINE for details.
> AIPS 1: ZFIO: OPER = READ LUN = 27 NREC =        1
> AIPS 1: ZFI2: REQUEST FOR BYTES 1 THRU = 1024 BEYOND EOF = 0

EOF = 0 suggests a zero length file.  Look in the DA00 area
($AIPS_ROOT/DA00/$HOST/) for any files with zero size; there shouldn't be
any.  If there is a file with zero length, it means something in the
installation did not work.  Also look in /home/aips/DATA/VOID_1/ for the
same thing; the only zero-length file there should be the SPACE lock
file.  If you find a readline (RLD...) file there of zero length, delete
it.  

> I think I can ignore the error message from TPMON1, because my machine
> have no tape device, 

The first TPMON is meant to be a server that allows other remote systems
access to your FITS disk area.  If you do not want this server running,
always start AIPS with "aips tpok" and possibly other options; see the
AIPS man page or help file for all the command line options.

If you do want select other systems access to your FITS disk area, then
you should check and/or edit the $AIPS_ROOT/DA00/TPHOSTS file to restrict
who can access it.

> AIPS 1: CATOPN: CATALOG IO ERROR    3 DISK  1 RECORD    1

It may be that a catalog (CA) file on AIPS disk 1 has zero length and is
thus empty.  If so, delete it.

				- Pat
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