[daip] AIPS installation on Mac OS X 10.5.2

[Wes Young]

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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