[daip] Fwd: Re: AIPS installation on Mac OS X 10.5.2
Eric Greisen
egreisen at nrao.edu
Wed Jun 11 10:55:00 EDT 2008
Gianfranco Gentile wrote:
> Hello,
> a few days ago I sent the following e-mail, I am not sure
> if it was received correctly.
> Thanks a lot in advance,
> Gianfranco
>
>
>
>
> ----- Forwarded message from gianfranco.gentile at ugent.be -----
> Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:00:43 +0200
> From: Gianfranco Gentile <gianfranco.gentile at ugent.be>
> Reply-To: Gianfranco Gentile <gianfranco.gentile at ugent.be>
> Subject: Re: [daip] AIPS installation on Mac OS X 10.5.2
> To: Wes Young <wyoung at aoc.nrao.edu>
> Cc: daip at nrao.edu
>
> Hello,
>
> thanks for your answer - I am sending this e-mail also to daip at nrao.edu.
> If I do "sysctl kern.sysv" I get the following:
>
> ~]$ sysctl kern.sysv
> kern.sysv.shmall: 1024
> kern.sysv.shmseg: 8
> kern.sysv.shmmni: 32
> kern.sysv.shmmin: 1
> kern.sysv.shmmax: 4194304
> kern.sysv.semume: 10
> kern.sysv.semmsl: 87381
> kern.sysv.semmnu: 87381
> kern.sysv.semmns: 87381
> kern.sysv.semmni: 87381
> kern.sysv: No such file or directory
> ~]$
>
> The numbers (in kern.sysv.shmmax and kern.sysv.shmall) are not those
> I set in /etc/sysctl.conf (see below in one of my previous e-mails), so
> apparently it is not being executed on start up. Also, I am not sure what
> to think about the "No such file or directory" error message.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance for any advice you can give me!
>
> Regards,
>
> Gianfranco
>
>
>
>
>
> Quoting Wes Young <wyoung at aoc.nrao.edu>:
>
>> Yes, but I'm on holiday, so you need to post to daip at nrao.edu.
>>
>> If you do
>>
>> sysctl kern.sysv
>>
>> See what it reports. If the numbers are what you set in
>> /etc/sysctl.conf then there is some other issue which we will need to
>> track down, if they are not then the /et/csysctl.conf file is not being
>> executed on start up and we will need to track that down.
>>
>> wes
>> wyoung at aoc.nrao.edu
>>
>>
>> On Jun 5, 2008, at 8:52 AM, Gianfranco Gentile wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> I just wanted to check if you had received the following e-mail
>>> and if you had any idea why the TV does not come up.
>>> Thanks a lot in advance!
>>> Gianfranco
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>
>>>> From: Gianfranco Gentile <gianfranco.gentile at ugent.be>
>>>> Date: Wed 28 May 2008 16:28:02 GMT+02:00
>>>> To: Wes Young <wyoung at aoc.nrao.edu>
>>>> Subject: Re: [daip] AIPS installation on Mac OS X 10.5.2
>>>>
>>>> Yes, but unfortunately after rebooting the TV still does not show up.
>>>> Thanks a lot in advance!
>>>> Gianfranco
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 28 May 2008, at 16:22, Wes Young wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Did you reboot after making the changes to sysctl.conf?
>>>>>
>>>>> wes
>>>>> wyoung at aoc.nrao.edu
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On May 28, 2008, at 2:17 AM, Gianfranco Gentile wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am trying to install AIPS on my MacBook Pro with Mac OS X 10.5.2.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Everything seems fine except for the TV, which doesn't come up.
>>>>>> Following the advice on http://www.aips.nrao.edu/aipsmgr/ I have
>>>>>> checked the depth of the display (24 planes), I have done
>>>>>> "setenv DISPLAY localhost:0" and I have added in /etc a file
>>>>>> called "sysctl.conf" which looks like this:
>>>>>> sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmax=10485760
>>>>>> sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmin=1
>>>>>> sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmni=32
>>>>>> sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmseg=8
>>>>>> sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmall=4096
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But the TV still doesn't come up. Is there any way you can help
>>>>>> me with that? It might be useful for you to see the messages
>>>>>> that I get when I type "aips tv=local". In particular, I still see
>>>>>> the "Shared memory id failure: Invalid argument" error message.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ~]$ aips tv=local
>>>>>> START_AIPS: Will use or start first available Unix Socket based TV
>>>>>> START_AIPS: Your initial AIPS printer is the
>>>>>> START_AIPS: - system name , AIPS type
>>>>>>
>>>>>> START_AIPS: User data area assignments:
>>>>>> (Using global default file /Users/ggentile/AIPS/DA00/DADEVS.LIST
>>>>>> for DADEVS.PL)
>>>>>> Disk 1 (1) is /Users/ggentile/AIPS/DATA/LOCALHOST_1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Tape assignments:
>>>>>> Tape 1 is REMOTE
>>>>>> Tape 2 is REMOTE
>>>>>>
>>>>>> START_AIPS: Starting TV servers on localhost asynchronously
>>>>>> START_AIPS: - WITH Unix Sockets as requested...
>>>>>> START_AIPS: Starting TPMON daemons on LOCALHOST 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 not on a local TV device, welcome stranger
>>>>>> AIPS 1: You are assigned TV device/server 3
>>>>>> AIPS 1: You are assigned graphics device/server 3
>>>>>> AIPS 1: Enter user ID number
>>>>>> ?UNIXSERVERS: TVSRV2 is already running on host localhost, user ggentile
>>>>>> UNIXSERVERS: Start XAS2 on localhost, DISPLAY :0
>>>>>> XAS: ** TrueColor FOUND!!!
>>>>>> XAS: *** Using shared memory option for speed ***
>>>>>> XAS: Using screen width 1430 height 778,
>>>>>> max grey level 8191 in 16 grey-scale memories
>>>>>> Shared memory id failure: Invalid argument
>>>>>> UNIXSERVERS: Start graphics server TKSRV2 on localhost, display :0
>>>>>> UNIXSERVERS: MSSRV2 is already running on host localhost, display :0,
>>>>>> user (unknown)
>>>>>> STARTPMON: [LOCALHOST] Starting TPMON1 with output SUPPRESSED
>>>>>> ZVTPO3: tcp/aipsmt0 is not a service
>>>>>> ZVTPO3: check /etc/services or NIS map!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks a lot in advance!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Gianfranco (Gentile)
>>>>>>
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You are too impatient. Wes is on vacation and I would know nothing
about these matters - Wes will not be back until July. His comment is
that the file you changed is being ignored on boot. Sometimes OS codes
ignore files when they have wrong privileges. On my computer
the /etc/sysctl.conf is owned by root with group wheel and rw - r - r
privilege. I do not see in the above e-mails what version of Max OS you
are using.
Eric Greisen
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