[daip] Mac TV problem

[Eric Greisen]

Elias Brinks writes:
Please use daip at nrao.edu.  I may be out of contact some for a while.

 > 
 > A silly question...I managed to run aips on my Mac (installed
 > the binaries). After not having used it for a few days, I
 > get the following error message regarding the TV server:
 > 
 > XASERVERS: Start TV LOCK daemon TVSERV on localhost
 > TVSERVER: Starting AIPS TV locking, Inet domain
 > XASERVERS: Start XAS on localhost, DISPLAY :0
 > XAS: ** TrueColor FOUND!!!
 > XAS: ***  Using shared memory option for speed ***
 > XAS: Using screen width height 1270 754, max grey level 255
 > MakeLink: bind error (INET): Address already in use

    Not a silly question if you have not used aips in a while.  It is
complaining usually about the address used by XAS (5000) when this
message comes.  Usually it arises when one shuts down an Inet aips TV
and tries to start a new one back up almost immediately.  This should
go away within minutes (10 at most).  If it doesn't it suggests that
there is a rogue process (an XAS with window lost??) running.  A
reboot would cure it of course.

    Another cure is to use
        aips tv=local 
which is fine if you are not talking to any other computers with that
TV.

Eric Greisen


 > TVSERVER told to shut down by XAS
 > XAS: Quitting NOW.
 > XASERVERS: TEKSRV is already running on host localhost, display :0, user 
 > ebrinks
 > XASERVERS: MSGSRV is already running on host localhost, display :0, user 
 > ebrink
 > 
 > Which address is already in use? How can I find out and how can I
 > kill whichever process is accessing the AIPS port and make it
 > available for aips to bind to?
 > 
 > Thanks, as always, for your help,
 > 
 > Elias