[daip] Re: AIPS TV problem

[Eric Greisen]

Deidre A. Hunter writes:
 > My computer operating system was just upgraded to SunOS 5.8, running on
 > a Sun Ultra1. Now the AIPS (15APR97) TV doesn't work. The error I get concerns
 > the shared memory:
 > 
 > XASERVERS: Starting XAS on turtle, DISPLAY :0.0
 > XAS: ***  Using shared memory option for speed ***
 > XAS: Using screen width height 1270 924, max grey level 196
 > Shared memory id failure: Invalid argument
 > 
 > After the new installation I had the following added to /etc/services
 > and the computer rebooted:
 > 
 > #
 > # AIPS related
 > # 
 > sssin           5000/tcp        SSSIN
 > msgserv         5008/tcp        MSGSERV
 > tekserv         5009/tcp        TEKSERV
 > aipsmt0         5010/tcp        AIPSMT0
 > aipsmt1         5011/tcp        AIPSMT1
 > aipsmt2         5012/tcp        AIPSMT2
 > aipsmt3         5013/tcp        AIPSMT3
 > aipsmt4         5014/tcp        AIPSMT4
 > aipsmt5         5015/tcp        AIPSMT5
 > aipsmt6         5016/tcp        AIPSMT6
 > aipsmt7         5017/tcp        AIPSMT7
 > 
 > set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=10485760
 > 

This last line goes in /etc/system and is the source of the id
failure.

Eric Greisen