[daip] Fwd: xterm?

[Howard Powell]

Greetings -

I've recently deployed the latest fedora 7 OS to all of the linux  
workstations in my department network here at UVa astronomy.   
Previously we were running Fedora 5 and had no problems with our AIPS  
31DEC05 installation.  After the upgrade, I'm getting reports that  
xterms do not properly show up when AIPS is starting.

It looks like AIPS thinks it's starting the xterms properly, and we  
see a flash on the screen like it draws one frame then disappears.   
I've replicated the problem myself and I can't seem to find them off  
the screen or minimized anywhere.

We're running a mostly stock version of Fedora 7 as far as how xterm  
and the X server is set up.  We are running the closed source nVidia  
drivers on the linux workstations.  In the message below from Kelsey,  
there's a warning about missing fonts, but I've corrected that and  
the problem persists.

Any ideas?  Hopefully this is something simple...

Thanks!
Howard

Begin forwarded message:

> From: kej7a at virginia.edu
> Date: September 5, 2007 11:07:41 AM EDT
> To: "Howard Powell" <hbp4c at virginia.edu>
> Subject: Re: xterm?
>
> Thanks for the fast service...
>
> This appears to be a red herring though -- AIPS still won't open  
> the right
> windows (although it says that it is -- it starts the processes,  
> but the
> windows don't show up anywhere).
>
>
> START_AIPS: I am GUESSING you are at a workstation called sunflower
> START_AIPS: Starting TV servers on sunflower asynchronously
> START_AIPS:  - with Internet Sockets...
> START_AIPS: Starting TPMON daemons on SUNFLOWER asynchronously...
> Starting up 31DEC05 AIPS with normal priority
> Begin the one true AIPS number 1 (release of 31DEC05) at priority  
> =   0
> AIPS 1: ZDCHIN: NO NETSP ENTRY FOR DA01
> AIPS 1: THIS MEANS THE TIMDEST LIMIT IS SET TO VALUE IN SP FILE OR  
> 14.0
> AIPS 1: You are assigned TV device/server   4
> AIPS 1: You are assigned graphics device/server   4
> AIPS 1: Enter user ID number
> ?XASERVERS: Start TV LOCK daemon TVSERV on sunflower
> TVSERVER: Starting AIPS TV locking, Inet domain
> XASERVERS: Start XAS on sunflower, DISPLAY :0
> XAS: ** TrueColor FOUND!!!
> XAS: ***  Using shared memory option for speed ***
> XAS: Using screen width height 1270 924, max grey level 255
> XASERVERS: Start graphics server TEKSRV on sunflower, DISPLAY :0
> XASERVERS: Start message server MSGSRV on sunflower, DISPLAY :0
> Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct
> Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct
> STARTPMON: [SUNFLOWER] Starting TPMON1 with output SUPPRESSED

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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake
     Napoleon Bonaparte

Howard Powell
Computer Support Technician
Astronomy Department, UVa



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