[daip] Re: AIPS on MAC OSX continue

[Eric Greisen]

Dr. Sylvie F. Beaulieu writes:

 > Thanks for both your emails. I just finished running a "full"
 > test using my own data that I know works well on my Linux PC.
 > 
 > First of all, to answer Eric's first question, I did a binary 
 > installation.
 > 
 > Now, I noticed that the whole system is quite slow even though
 > this machine is a dual 2 GHz with 2GB ram. This could be related to
 > a note from your READme on Mac file where you mention changing
 > the setting of the shared memory. I have not tried that yet.

     The shared memory note is about XAS and if the screen comes up
you do not have that problem.

     The speed is odd - Macs of that level are usually about 130
AIPSMarks which is not slow.

 > 
 > Now, apart from the fact that the messages are written within 
 > the aips window and not the MSGSRV window, running tasks
 > like fillm, imlod, trans and xgaus seemm to work ok. The
 > next problem I just encountered was the fact that, although the
 > TV SERVER black screen open ok, I cannot acces it. When I tried
 > to do a "tvinit", I got this error:
 > ZSSSLK ERROR 1 ON LOCK
 > ON LOCK ERROR 6 FROM ZSSSLK
 > YTVOPN TV LOCK OPEN ERROR 6
 > TVOPEN ERROR 6

    This says that the lock daemon task did not start correctly.  I
would need to see the messages that come when you start aips.  Perhaps
you have not created the needed system services - see the aips manager
FAQ page.  If that is the case this would also explain the message
server problem.

sssin           5000/tcp        SSSIN      # AIPS TV server
ssslock         5002/tcp        SSSLOCK    # AIPS TV Lock
msgserv         5008/tcp        MSGSERV    # AIPS Message Server
tekserv         5009/tcp        TEKSERV    # AIPS TekServer
aipsmt0         5010/tcp        AIPSMT0    # AIPS remote FITS disk access
aipsmt1         5011/tcp        AIPSMT1    # AIPS remote tape 1
aipsmt2         5012/tcp        AIPSMT2    # AIPS remote tape 2
aipsmt3         5013/tcp        AIPSMT3
aipsmt4         5014/tcp        AIPSMT4

 > 
 > If I try "plcub" with dotv=1 I get the same error as above.
 > 
 > In trying to investigate the MSGSRV problem, I did two test.
 > I started aips on a regular X11 window, i.e. a xterm as it is
 > called. And from an xterm, I called an "xgterm": both give
 > the same results. I was careful to check that no old MSGSRV
 > windows were left over from a previous trial by checking
 > with "ps -a". Maybe this is not enough? I have not tried
 > the verb "KLEENEX" yet.
 > 
 > As for the group problem, I will follow Pat's recommendation.
 > Our sysman from the Physics depart told me something similar
 > this morning i.e. using the applications/netinfo to setup the
 > aipsman group.  

Eric Greisen