[daip] Re: AIPS installation

[Siow-Wang Lee]

Hi Eric, 

Thanks for the quick reply. It seems starting aips with TV=local
solved all my problems! I'd never have thought... 

Everything is working fine now. Thank you very much.

cheers,
Siow-Wang

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Dr. Siow-Wang Lee	E-mail: swlee at astro.utoronto.ca
Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics , University of Toronto 
60 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3H8  
Tel:(416)978-4971  Fax:(416)946-7287
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On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Eric Greisen wrote:

> 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
> 
>