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

[Rachel Osten]

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:
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

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
>  
>