[daip] Re: AIPS installation

[Eric Greisen]

Siow-Wang Lee writes:

 > I have just installed AIPS 31DEC03 on my laptop running linux. 
 > Since I will use it in a single user mode, I chose UNIX instead of
 > INET service.

     That section makes no sense to me - either version works after
the installation.  I think I should remove it from install.pl although
that may confuse things in other ways.
 > 
 > the message window shows up, but the messages don't go there. Instead
 > they show up on the main aips window.
 > 
 > the tv screen server shows up but I get this error message when I 
 > try to run tvall: 
 > ZSSSL2 connect (INET): Connection timed out
 > ZSSSLK: ERROR 1 ON LOCK
 > ON LOCK ERROR 6 FROM ZSSSLK
 > YTVOPN: TV LOCK OPEN ERROR 6
 > TV OPEN ERROR 6
 > 
 > the tekserver shows up but I get this error message when I run tkpl:
 > ZERROR: ON FILE TKDEV01:
 > ZERROR: IN ZTKOP2 ERRNO = 110 (Connection timed out)
 > TEKTRONIX OPEN ERROR
 > Appears to have ended successfully
 > 
 > Note that I have edited /etc/services according to the installation
 > guide.

    Did you re-boot afterwards?

    The above suggest to me (a) that you said only "aips" to start
aips so that it used the Inet versions and (b) that the inet version
is not working.  Perhaps, when the laptop is not connected into some
LAN is lacks the loopback business (I am not a linux guru) that is
needed to have inet sockets work properly.  Start AIPS with
   aips tv=local
to have unix sockets.

I might be able to say more if you sent all the messages aips emits
when you start up.  The ones above tell me little except that it is
not working.

 > 
 > It also took a long time to run imlod and cntr on a very small 
 > file (e.g., more than 2 minutes to run cntr, with only one contour, 
 > on a 73pix by 36pix by 1pix file).

This is most bizarre - it should take 0 seconds to run this cntr on
modern machines.  Where is the data?  What sort of aips disk setup do
you have?  All the messages at startup and the contents of
$NET0/DADEVS.LIST may help with the debugging...

Eric Greisen