[daip] help with AIPS ...

[Ryan Ransom]

Greetings,

I have installed AIPS on my laptop, following the instructions on the
web as closely as possible.  When AIPS starts, all three of the
MSGSRV, TKSRV and TVSRV windows open and I get start-up messages which
seem to indicate that all is okay (email continues below):

> START_AIPS: I am GUESSING you are at a workstation called localhost
> START_AIPS: Starting TV servers on localhost asynchronously
> START_AIPS:  - with Internet Sockets...
> START_AIPS: Starting TPMON daemons on LOCALHOST asynchronously...
> Starting up 31DEC07 AIPS with normal priority
> Begin the one true AIPS number 1 (release of 31DEC07) at priority =   0
> XASERVERS: Start TV LOCK daemon TVSERV on localhost
> XASERVERS: Start XAS on localhost, DISPLAY :0
> XASERVERS: Start graphics server TEKSRV on localhost, DISPLAY :0
> XASERVERS: Start message server MSGSRV on localhost, DISPLAY :0
> TVSERVER: Starting AIPS TV locking, Inet domain
> AIPS 1: You are assigned TV device/server   1
> AIPS 1: You are assigned graphics device/server   1
> AIPS 1: Enter user ID number
> XAS: ** TrueColor FOUND!!! XAS: ***  Using shared memory option for speed
> ***
> XAS: Using screen width height 1430 800, max grey level 255

However, if I start a task, the messages that should appear in the
MSGSRV window appear in the terminal window with the following error
message:

> ERROR  3 ON UNIT TTDEV01         , GETTING HOST/SERVICE BY NAME
>  ZMSGOP: ZTTOPN RETURNS ERROR =   1 FOR LUN =   6
>  localhos

For the same reason, I cannot use either the TK or TV displays.

I double-checked the HOSTS.LIST file, and it looks as expected.  My X
windows is operating in 24-bit color mode.  Also, the appropriate AIPS
services have been added to the /etc/services file, with the "radio
free ethernet" service commented out.

Any advice as to what I might try next to eliminate this problem?

Thanks for any help.

-Ryan Ransom.