[daip] TV server error?

[Eric Greisen]

Allison Noble wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> Thanks for your response.  I hadn't realized the TV related jobs were 
> verbs - that was a careless error on my part.  I did what you said for 
> the XASERVERS file, and restarted aips, but got the same error message 
> and didn't notice a difference with the MSG and TEK servers.  However, 
> if I exit aips without quitting the servers and restart - the warning 
> message disappears. 
> 
>> >Have you set the environment variable AIPS_MSG_EMULATOR to something 
> other than its default xterm? 
> No.
> 
>> >What operating system are you running? 
> // Debian GNU/Linux 4.0, kernel version - 2.6.15
> 
>> >Is there anything in your environment call vlines2?
> I couldn't find anything with this name.
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> Allison
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Eric Greisen <egreisen at nrao.edu 
> <mailto:egreisen at nrao.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     Allison Noble wrote:
> 
>         Hi,
> 
>         I have the 31DEC08 version of AIPS installed on my linux
>         machine.  When I start up AIPS, the Tek, TV (X-AIPS tv Screen
>         Server 98), and Message Servers all seem to come up correctly.
>          AIPS seems to work fine until I try to use the TV server.  When
>         I use tasks such as TVLOD or TVALL to load an image, I get the
>         following error:
>          >AIPS 1: ZACTV8: TASK TVALL  DOES NOT EXIST IN
>          >AIPS 1: ZACTV8: VERSION = TST
> 
> 
>     These are not tasks but verbs.  You can say either
>     tvlod
>     go tvlod
>     The latter will catch your error and translate to
>     tput tvlod; tvlod
> 
>     But if you say
>     task = 'tvlod'
>     go
>     then aips cannot catch your grammar error until it is too late to
>     fix it.
> 
> 
>         The same happens for TVLOD.  Here is a copy of my terminal
>         display when I start up AIPS:
> 
>         =AICHA:~%aips
>         START_AIPS: Your initial AIPS printer is the
>         START_AIPS:  - system name , AIPS type
>          START_AIPS: User data area assignments:
>          (Using global default file /usr/local/AIPS/DA00/DADEVS.LIST for
>         DADEVS.PL)
>           Disk 1 (1) is /data/aicha/AIPS/AICHA_1
> 
>         Tape assignments:
>           Tape 1 is REMOTE
>           Tape 2 is REMOTE
>          START_AIPS: I am GUESSING you are at a workstation called aicha
>         START_AIPS: Starting TV servers on aicha asynchronously
>         START_AIPS:  - with Internet Sockets...
>         START_AIPS: Starting TPMON daemons on AICHA asynchronously...
>         Starting up 31DEC08 AIPS with normal priority
>         Begin the one true AIPS number 1 (release of 31DEC08) 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 aicha
>         TVSERVER: Starting AIPS TV locking, Inet domain
>         XASERVERS: Start XAS on aicha, DISPLAY :0
>         XAS: ** TrueColor FOUND!!!
>         XAS: ***  Using shared memory option for speed ***
>         XAS: Using screen width 1270 height 924,
>             max grey level 8191 in 16 grey-scale memories
>         XASERVERS: Start graphics server TEKSRV on aicha, DISPLAY :0
>         Warning: Cannot convert string "vlines2" to type Pixmap
>         XASERVERS: Start message server MSGSRV on aicha, DISPLAY :0
>         Warning: Cannot convert string "vlines2" to type Pixmap
> 
> 
>     This message I cannot figure out.  To debug I would need you to cp
>     $SYSUNIX/XASERVERS to $SYSLOCAL.  Then edit it to remove the comment
>     symbols from the start of the two lines containing the string -hold.
> 
>     Then when aips starts the message and tek server windows will remain
>     up and we can see what appears in those windows.  Have you set the
>     environment variable AIPS_MSG_EMULATOR to something other than its
>     default xterm?  What operating system are you running?  Is there
>     anything in your environment call vlines2?
> 
>     Eric Greisen
> 
> 

If the servers work - then delete the test version of XASERVERS and just 
ignore the message.  When they get left up then you do not start a new 
one and so the message is tied to forking an xterm in some way.

Eric Greisen