[daip] AIPS can't see my data

[Eric Greisen]

Simon Strasser writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I hope that you can help me with the following problem:
 > We are in the transition of switching from a Slackware to a Redhat 
 > system. I recently loaded some new data (with fillm) onto my computer, 
 > which is running the Redhat (Fedora Core 2) operating system. Running 
 > fillm worked without errors, and I can see that tables (e.g running 
 > listr with optype='scan'). However if I try any task that attempts to 
 > access the actual data (e.g. listr with optype='matx'), I get the 
 > following error message: LISTR1: NO DATA FOUND. Other tasks that try to 
 > access the data have similar problems (e.g. uvplt doesn't find any points 
 > to plot).
 > If I run aips from a computer on the "old" (slackware) system, and setting 
 > da=lapis (lapis is my machine running on the Redhat), then aips sees my 
 > data no problem. The data is therefore definitely there, and can be read 
 > by AIPS from the old system. If I run aips from a different computer on 
 > the new system (also setting da=lapis) then I have the same problem as 
 > with running on my own computer: no data found.
 > We did another test to check whether the problem might lie with files 
 > that are created for each user upon first logging into AIPS:
 >   - We took some data from from a computer on the old system,  and copied 
 > it into my AIPS data area. This data belongs to a different user number 
 > that has never previoulsy logged in from my computer. We also 
 > copied the files that are created by AIPS for this user from the old 
 > system. When we attempted to look at this data the result was the same as 
 > before: on my computer I can't see it, but logging in remotely, there's 
 > no problem.
 > 
 > Is this a problem you have encountered before? Do you have suggestions 
 > about how we might be able to solve this? Let me know if you need more 
 > information.
 > 

What compiler and what version of that compiler were used on your new
RedHat system?  This smells like a compiler bug.  Also what version of
aips?

Eric Greisen