[daip] Re: Shared memory error

[Edward Colbert]

We are having a very strange problem with the TV and 15OCT99 Solaris AIPS.

We have it configured for a small number of Solaris machines and I installed
AIPS in /usr/local/src/aips under my username, so the files are owned by 
me (colbert).  Susan Ridgway (user ridgway) has machine called alecto and
cannot start the TV on her machine with any of the following commands:

% aips
% aips tv=alecto

The error is: Shared memory id failure: Invalid argument
(See text below)

If I, or another valid aips user, tries the same command, it works fine and
the TV comes up.

We did come up with a temp fix, which works fine.  If Susan logs into my
machine and types

% aips tv=local

The TV running on my machine comes up okay on her machine.

Do you have an idea of what problem might be causing this?  We have been
scratching our heads for a few days and have not figured it out.  Both 
machines are configured with exactly the same nsswitch.conf and services
entries.

Thanks
Ed Colbert

> alecto-73: aips
> JHU PHA ADCAM AIPS script started
> 
> You have a choice of 4 printers.  These are:
> 
>     No. [ type  ] Description
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>      1. [     PS] Postscript Printer on 5th floor (not duplex)
>      2. [     PS] Postscript Printer on 4th floor (duplex)
>      3. [     PS] Color Postscript printer Rm 218 (GENERAL USE)
>      4. [     PS] High-Quality Color Postscript printer Rm 218 (expensive!)
>      5. [PREVIEW] Ghostview previewer
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> START_AIPS: Enter your choice, or the word QUIT [default is 1]:
> START_AIPS: Your initial AIPS printer is the Postscript Printer on 5th floor (not duplex)
> START_AIPS:  - system name fifthlp, AIPS type PS
> 
> START_AIPS: User data area assignments:
> DADEVS.PL: This program is untested under Perl version 5.005
>   (Using private file /home/ridgway/.dadevs for DADEVS.PL)
>    Disk 1 (1) is /home/ridgway/.aips00
>    Disk 2 (2) is /data1/poutine/ridgway/aips
>    Disk 3 (3) is /data2/poutine/ridgway/aips
> 
> Tape assignments:
>    Tape 1 is REMOTE
>    Tape 2 is REMOTE
> 
> START_AIPS: You seem to be at a workstation called alecto
> TVDEVS.SH: Starting TV servers on alecto asynchronously
> TVDEVS.SH:  - with Internet Sockets...
> TVDEVS.SH: Starting TPMON daemons on ALECTO asynchronously...
> Starting up 15OCT99 AIPS with normal priority
> Begin the one true AIPS number 1 (release of 15OCT99) at priority =   0
> AIPS 1: You are assigned TV device/server   2
> AIPS 1: You are assigned graphics device/server   2
> AIPS 1: Enter user ID number
> ?DADEVS.PL: This program is untested under Perl version 5.005
> XASERVERS: Start TV LOCK daemon TVSERV on alecto
> XASERVERS: Start XAS on alecto, DISPLAY :0.0
> TVSERVER: Starting AIPS TV locking, Inet domain
> XAS: ** TrueColor FOUND!!!
> XAS: Visual not = default, create 24-bit colormap
> XAS: Using screen width height 1270 924, max grey level 255
> XAS: ***  Using shared memory option for speed ***
> Shared memory id failure: Invalid argument
> XASERVERS: Start graphics server TEKSRV on alecto, DISPLAY :0.0
> XASERVERS: Start message server MSGSRV on alecto, DISPLAY :0.0
> STARTPMON: [ALECTO] Starting TPMON1 with output SUPPRESSED
> 
> AIPS 1: Enter user ID number
> ?1866
> AIPS 1:                          15OCT99 AIPS:
> AIPS 1:      Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Associated Universities, Inc.
> AIPS 1:            AIPS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY;
> AIPS 1:                 for details, type HELP GNUGPL
> AIPS 1: This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> AIPS 1: under certain conditions; type EXPLAIN GNUGPL for details.
> AIPS 1: Previous session command-line history recovered.
> AIPS 1: TAB-key completions enabled, type HELP READLINE for details.
> AIPS 1: Recovered POPS environment from last exit
> >tvinit
> ZSSSO2 connect (INET): Connection refused
> AIPS 1: ZSSSOP: CHANNEL ASSIGN ERROR FOR LUN    9
> AIPS 1: YTVOPN: TV OPEN ERROR      6
> AIPS 1: TV OPEN ERROR      6
> >
>