[daip] Mac xas problem

Sun Nov 19 12:11:07 EST 2006

John,

There are more things on that page, well if you can get to it which I  
can't right now.  Go to http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/aips/aipsmgr/ 
index.html.  There's a section on "My Mac will not do TV displays  
from a computer server".  Just follow those instructions and we can  
hope it's that, otherwise, you have to configure AIPS to run on a  
laptop even if it isn't.  If that fails, then I'll try a test  
installation on my mac and see if I can replicate your problem.

btw, I'm in Oxford England (my wife is on sabbatical), and will have  
to to tend to evening duties with the family shortly

wes
wyoung at aoc.nrao.edu

On 19 Nov 2006, at 16:48, John Cannon wrote:

> I followed the instructions as best I could; looking back over  
> them, there are no instructions to check firewall ports.  From the  
> page http://www.nrao.edu/aips/aipsmgr/ I find that System  
> Preferences -> Sharing should be edited, adding a "New" port with  
> TCP and UDP port numbers set to 5000-5017, then calling it "aips".   
> I have done this, rebooted, but still get the same error message.
>
> On Nov 19, 2006, at 11:39 AM, Wes Young wrote:
>
>> Good.  This may sound silly but did you open up the firewall ports  
>> on the mac as specified?
>> wes
>> wyoung at aoc.nrao.edu
>>
>>
>> On 19 Nov 2006, at 16:29, John Cannon wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Wes,
>>>
>>> Indeed, increasing shmmax to 16777216 eliminated the first error  
>>> I noted below.  Unfortunately, the second persists (message & TV  
>>> servers).  Here is what I get when starting up AIPS (again I have  
>>> highlighted in red the apparently erroneous messages that I get):
>>>
>>> Hawkeye <33> aips
>>> START_AIPS: Your initial AIPS printer is the VVO Computer Lab
>>> START_AIPS:  - system name mcx_3, AIPS type PS
>>> START_AIPS: User data area assignments:
>>>   (Using global default file /Volumes/MyData/myApplications/DA00/ 
>>> DADEVS.LIST for DADEVS.PL)
>>>    Disk 1 (1) is /Volumes/MyData/HAWKEYE_1
>>>
>>> Tape assignments:
>>>    Tape 1 is REMOTE
>>>    Tape 2 is REMOTE
>>> START_AIPS: I am GUESSING you are at a workstation called hawkeye
>>> START_AIPS: Starting TV servers on hawkeye asynchronously
>>> START_AIPS:  - with Internet Sockets...
>>> START_AIPS: Starting TPMON daemons on HAWKEYE asynchronously...
>>> Starting up 31DEC06 AIPS with normal priority
>>> Begin the one true AIPS number 1 (release of 31DEC06) at priority  
>>> =   0
>>> AIPS 1: You are assigned TV device/server   1
>>> AIPS 1: You are assigned graphics device/server   1
>>> AIPS 1: Enter user ID number
>>> XASERVERS: Start TV LOCK daemon TVSERV on hawkeye
>>> XASERVERS: Start XAS on hawkeye, DISPLAY :0
>>> XASERVERS: Start graphics server TEKSRV on hawkeye, DISPLAY :0
>>> XAS: ** TrueColor FOUND!!!
>>> ?XASERVERS: Start message server MSGSRV on hawkeye, DISPLAY :0
>>> XAS: ***  Using shared memory option for speed ***
>>> XAS: Using screen width height 1910 1100, max grey level 255
>>> TVSERVER: Starting AIPS TV locking, Inet domain
>>> STARTPMON: [HAWKEYE] Starting TPMON1 with output SUPPRESSED
>>> 2419
>>> AIPS 1:                          31DEC06 AIPS:
>>> AIPS 1:      Copyright (C) 1995-2006 Associated Universities, Inc.
>>> AIPS 1:            AIPS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY;
>>> AIPS 1:                 for details, type HELP GNUGPL
>>> AIPS 1: This is free software, and you are welcome to  
>>> redistribute it
>>> AIPS 1: under certain conditions; type EXPLAIN GNUGPL for details.
>>> AIPS 1: Previous session command-line history recovered.
>>> AIPS 1: TAB-key completions enabled, type HELP READLINE for details.
>>> AIPS 1: Recovered POPS environment from last exit
>>> >mc
>>> AIPS 1: Catalog on disk  1
>>> AIPS 1:  Cat Usid Mapname      Class   Seq  Pt     Last  
>>> access      Stat
>>> AIPS 1:    1 2419 N6822       .IRAC1 .    1 MA 14-NOV-2006 13:01:09
>>> >mc
>>> AIPS 1: Catalog on disk  1
>>> AIPS 1:  Cat Usid Mapname      Class   Seq  Pt     Last  
>>> access      Stat
>>> AIPS 1:    1 2419 N6822       .IRAC1 .    1 MA 14-NOV-2006 13:01:09
>>> >getn 1
>>> AIPS 1: Got(1)   disk= 1  user=2419   type=MA   N6822.IRAC1.1
>>> >tvall
>>> ZSSSL2: hawkeye: UNKNOWN HOST
>>> AIPS 1: ZSSSLK: ERROR   2 ON LOCK
>>> AIPS 1: ON LOCK ERROR    6 FROM ZSSSLK
>>> AIPS 1: YTVOPN: TV LOCK OPEN ERROR      6
>>> AIPS 1: TV OPEN ERROR      6
>>>
>>>
>>> Further suggestions?  Thanks alot,
>>> John
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 19, 2006, at 11:11 AM, Wes Young wrote:
>>>
>>>> Try pushing the shmmax to 16777216, you'll have to reboot.
>>>>
>>>> wes
>>>> wyoung at aoc.nrao.edu
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 19 Nov 2006, at 15:57, John Cannon wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for looking into this.  The shared memory appears to be  
>>>>> set correctly:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hawkeye <1> sysctl kern.sysv
>>>>> kern.sysv.shmmax: 10485760
>>>>> kern.sysv.shmmin: 1
>>>>> kern.sysv.shmmni: 32
>>>>> kern.sysv.shmseg: 8
>>>>> kern.sysv.shmall: 4096
>>>>> kern.sysv.semmni: 87381
>>>>> kern.sysv.semmns: 87381
>>>>> kern.sysv.semmnu: 87381
>>>>> kern.sysv.semmsl: 87381
>>>>> kern.sysv.semume: 10
>>>>>
>>>>> Further suggestions?  Best wishes,
>>>>> John
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Nov 19, 2006, at 4:20 AM, Wes Young wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> John,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Let's try to tackle the shared memory problem first. First  
>>>>>> check that your shared memory changes took place on a terminal  
>>>>>> window do
>>>>>>
>>>>>> sysctl kern.sysv
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and make sure the results are what you set.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thus, the startup seems normal, except for the memory problem  
>>>>>>> noted
>>>>>>> for Macs.  I have a 23 inch screen;  I have thus edited the
>>>>>>> applicable line in /etc/rc to read:
>>>>>>> sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmax=10485760 kern.sysv.shmmin=1
>>>>>>> kern.sysv.shmmni=32 kern.sysv.shmseg=8 kern.sysv.shmall=4096
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This does not seem to fix the problem (even after system  
>>>>>>> reboot).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> wes
>>>>>> wyoung at aoc.nrao.edu
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ------------------------------------------
>>>>> John M. Cannon
>>>>> Wesleyan University
>>>>> cannon at astro.wesleyan.edu
>>>>> ------------------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------
>>> John M. Cannon
>>> Wesleyan University
>>> cannon at astro.wesleyan.edu
>>> ------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>
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> John M. Cannon
> Wesleyan University
> cannon at astro.wesleyan.edu
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