[daip] problem in installing 31DEC05 AIPS version on laptop

[Eric Greisen]

Rachel Osten writes:
 > OK, that seemed to work -- I was able to RUN FILAIP and RUN POPSGN and 
 > they seemed to execute properly.  However, I'm still having a problem 
 > when trying to run AIPS, and this is the same problem I was having with 
 > the old version of AIPS, so maybe installing a new version wasn't the 
 > thing to do.  I can start up AIPS, and list the contents of a 
 > disk/catalog, but if I try to invoke a command like "tvall" or "tget 
 > imagr" I get an error message.  For the latter example, I get the 
 > following error:
 > 
 >  >tget imagr
 > AIPS 1: ZDIR: COULD NOT TRANSLATE LOGICAL =
 > AIPS 1: ZDIR:

    Your LASTEXIT SAVE/GET file appears to be damaged.  This
particular error is fixed by typing
VERSION  = ' '
which is an adverb to INPUTS, GO etc

 > AIPS 1: ZTXMAT ERROR =      2
 >  >task 'imagr'
 >  >inp
 > AIPS 1: ZDIR: COULD NOT TRANSLATE LOGICAL =
 > AIPS 1: ZDIR:
 > AIPS 1: ZTXMAT ERROR =      2
 > 
 > and the former, I get this error:
 > 
 >  >getn 70 ;tvall
 > AIPS 1: Got(1)   disk= 3  user=2424   type=MA   TWA5B.ICL001.2
 > AIPS 1: TVFIND: NO MA IMAGES ARE ON ACCORDING TO CATALOG
 > 

   Having fixed VERSION, check the adverbs to TVALL perhaps something
is odd...  I really have no other idea about this one which is
claiming that the TV image catalog cannot find an image for which to
do the wedge (I think).

Eric Greisen


 > I've listed the contents of the catalog, and the image appears. 
 > 
 > I had an AIPS window open and running the other day, when my computer 
 > froze up from something unrelated (to AIPS) I was trying to do with my 
 > web browser.  I didn't think anything of it and manually rebooted it.  I 
 > think these problems stem from that incident, but I don't have a clue as 
 > to what to check.  Any ideas?
 > 
 > Thanks,
 > Rachel Osten
 > 
 > Eric Greisen wrote:
 > 
 > >Rachel Osten writes:
 > > > Hi,
 > > > 
 > > > I'm having a weird problem installing 31DEC05 on my Linux laptop, 
 > > > platypus (AIPS was installed at NRAO-CV, but the laptop is now with me 
 > > > at UMd).  The previous version of AIPS installed was 31DEC03, and I was 
 > > > having problems getting AIPS to work after a forced (unclean) shutdown, 
 > > > so decided to instal the latest version.  I downloaded the tarball and 
 > > > the install.pl files, and followed the instructions for using the 
 > > > install wizard.  All seemed to be going well, and I ran INSTEP2 and 
 > > > INSTEP4 without incident.  When  the wizard tried to then run FILAIP, it 
 > > > reported an error:
 > > > 
 > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 > > > Data disk assignments:
 > > >   (Using global default file /export/data_1/aips/DA00/DADEVS.LIST for 
 > > > DADEVS.PL)
 > > > DADEVS.PL error - no disks selected at all
 > > > This is a FATAL error and nothing in AIPS will work.
 > > >  
 > > > *********************************************************
 > > > HELP!  No Defined data areas!  You can proceed now to run
 > > > program FILAIP, but you may see LOTS of complaints about
 > > > not being able to access the message file.  If you think
 > > > there should have been some data areas defined, please
 > > > check DADEVS.LIST or .dadevs files, or AIPSASSN.\*
 > > > *********************************************************
 > > > If you want to proceed, enter YES (uppercase) now:
 > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 > > > 
 > > > I checked /export/data_1/aips/DA00/DADEVS.LIST and there are data disks 
 > > > in there -- they are the ones which existed from the previous version of 
 > > > AIPS.  These are also the directories I put in at step 7 in the install 
 > > > wizard.  I can't find anything obviously wrong in AIPSASSN.SH.  One 
 > > > thing I noticed is that I can't find the file $AIPS_ROOT/DADEVS.SH.  I'm 
 > > > assuming that was supposed to be created during the install process?
 > > > 
 > >A guess.  What does the new installation think your computer name is?
 > >If you said yes to the laptop question it will be LOCALHOST.  Your old
 > >data areas almost certainly same something else, e.g. ELSE.  To fix
 > >this
 > >
 > >cd $AIPS_ROOT/DA00
 > >ln -s ELSE LOCALHOST
 > >edit DADEVS.LIST and NETSP to make parallel entries for LOCALHOST_n as
 > >                           are present of ELSE_n
 > >
 > >cd $AIPS_ROOT/DATA
 > >ln -s ELSE_1 LOCALHOST_1
 > >ln -s ELSE_2 LOCALHOST_2
 > >etc
 > >
 > >(or if the data areas are actually elsewhere in the DADEVS.LIST make
 > >those link files elsewhere)
 > >
 > >The start up looks for data areas under the name by which it calls the
 > >host - which is how we manage one DADEVS.LIST for > 100 computers.
 > >
 > >Eric Greisen
 > >  
 > >