[daip] Re: AIPS

[Preeti Kharb]

Hullo Eric,

Thankyou very much ! It worked !

cheers
Preeti

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Preeti Kharb
Postdoctoral Fellow
76-3116, Centre for Imaging Science
Rochester Institute of Technology
54 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623
Tel: 1.585.475.5665     Fax: 1.585.475.4153
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On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Eric Greisen wrote:

> Preeti Kharb writes:
>  > Hi Eric,
>  >
>  > I was wondering if you could advise me on this peculiar problem I am
>  > facing while running AIPS (31DEC04) on my laptop which has Fedora Core 4
>  > installed on it.
>  >
>  > I did a binary installation and finally AIPS was working. Today however
>  > for some reason, while running AIPS, I found that "ucat" and "mcat" was
>  > suddenly not showing any entries (there were many CALIB files etc.
>  > before).
>  >
>  > I re-started AIPS, tried RESTORE 0, deleted the SGDuuu001.uuu\; file.
>  > (I also made some changes to DADEVS.LIST - basically reordered the disk
>  > areas - but this was for another reason.)
>  >
>  > However, whenever I try to re-load the UVDATA file using FITLD, I get the
>  > following error.
>  >
>  > localh> FITLD1: Task FITLD  (release of 31DEC04) begins
>  > localh> FITLD1: Found MULTI    observed on 05-NOV-2002
>  > localh> FITLD1: UV data will be written in compressed format
>  > localh> FITLD1: ZCREAT: FILE DA01:CBD001001.00M; ALREADY EXISTS
>  > localh> FITLD1: CATDIR: WARNING - AN OLD HEADER FILE WAS PRESENT
>  > localh> FITLD1: ZCREAT: FILE DA01:UVD001001.00M; ALREADY EXISTS
>  > localh> FITLD1: ZCREAT ERROR     1 FOR AO170.021105.CH0   .   1
>  > localh> FITLD1: CATDIR: INCOMPLETE ID ON CLOSE OF CATNO     1
>  > localh> FITLD1: ERROR      5 RETURNED FROM UVFHDR
>  > localh> FITLD1: Purports to die of UNNATURAL causes
>  > localh> FITLD1: localhost    31DEC04 TST: Cpu=       0.1  Real=       0
>  >
>  > So, DA01 has all the data-files which I had FITLDed earlier, but they are
>  > not visible on doing "ucat".
>  >
>  > Can you please advise ?
>
> Exit aips - I predict that your CA file on this disk has been lost.
> When you start up again a new empty one is made and that is the one
> looked at by ucat/mcat.  When you exit, the new CA file should be
> deleted if it is empty.
>
> cd your data area
>
> ls -l CAD*
> ls -l CBD*
>
> the latter are the header files.  If there is no CA and lots of CB we
> have a solution
>
> cd $AIPS_ROOT
> source LOGIN.CSH   (or . LOGIN.SH in bash)
> $CDTST
> RUN RECAT
>
> and answer the questions
>
> Eric Greisen
>
>