[daip] aips 31DEC07 -- missing MSGSERVER etc

[Joe Cammisa]

greetings, eric.  i wanted to inform you that apparently some time away
from the computers helped clear my mind enough to come up with a simple
workaround to the issue we had been discussing.  specifically, when i
looked over the output of my redhat software upgrade immediately preceding
the problem, i saw that the local version of the xterm software had gone
from xterm-215-4.el5 to xterm-215-5.el5; therefore the most simple
solution was to yank this newer version and replace it with the one from
the original  installation media.  once that was done, no more link errors
occurred upon starting the msgserv or tekserv processes and everyone is
happy once again.  hopefully this "trick" will not hurt in unexpected ways
down the road (though i doubt it, as end users don't typically use xterm);
also hopefully this information might prove useful for you or others in
the future.  thanks again for your prompt response and input on this issue
under fire.  best regards,

-joe

> Joe Cammisa writes:
>  > sorry, eric, i don't mean to be thick but when i echo the
> $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>  > in the appropriate place in UNIXSERVERS, it appears to indicate that
> the
>  > location of the missing shared object is in the path; eg,
>  >
>  > /aips/aips_root/31DEC07/LINUX/LIBR/INTELCMP:/aips/aips_root/31DEC07/LINUX/LIBR/INTELCMP:/aips/aips_root/31DEC07/LINUX/LIBR/INTELCMP:/aips/aips_root/31DEC07/LINUX/LIBR/INTELCMP:/aips/aips_root/31DEC07/LINUX/LIBR/INTELCMP:/aips/aips_root/31DEC07/LINUX/LIBR/INTELCMP
>  > /aips/aips_root/31DEC07/LINUX/LOAD/TKSRV1: error while loading shared
>  > libraries: libsvml.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
>  > directory
>  >
>  > in fact the first directory mentioned in the TEKSRV output is in fact
>  > where libsvml.so can be found.  therefore, i'm a bit stumped on what to
>  > try next.    thanks again for your patient assistance...
>  >
>
> i am running out of ideas too.  This is hard to debug.  What shell are
> you using and did you bring 31DEC07 up to date?  (Note the export
> below for bash et al - that was the essential bug fix in September)
>
> the statement
>
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH; ./TKSRV1
>
> is supposed to cause an expansion of the $LD_LIBRARY_PATH in XASERVERS
> and then to get it set in the xterm so that the next command will have
> it set.  Adding an echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH just expands in XASERVERS and
> echos the expanded in the xterm.  It really is only a check on
> AIPSPATH not on what the xterm gets.
>
> I am forwarding this one to daip in the hope that Wes may have some
> ideas.
>
> Eric Greisen
>


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  Joe Cammisa
  Networking & Systems
  College Information Resources
  Haverford College

  phone:  1-610-896-4239
  email:  jcammisa at haverford.edu