[daip] Issue installing AIPS on FC9

Chun Ly chun at astro.UCLA.EDU
Wed Oct 8 19:52:22 EDT 2008


Thanks Eric,

 I'm able to access aips, so I believe the problem is resolved.

Cheers,
 - Chun

On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, Eric Greisen wrote:

>Chun Ly wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>  I'm trying to install AIPS on my laptop, which has Fedora core 9.
>>
>>  The installation went fine. I sourced the AIPS LOGIN .csh file. I had to
>>  fix a problem with the DADEVS.LIST file where a minus sign was in the
>>  path location (changed to a plus)
>>
>>  Upon typing aips, I get the following error and AIPS exiting. All the
>>  servers did load up fine from what I can tell:
>
>> ZDCHI1: ZOPEN: FILE DA00:SPD000000;          NOT FOUND
>>  ZDCHIN: COULD NOT READ PARAMETER FILE
>>  ZDCHIN: (USING MINIMUM SYSTEM CONFIGURATION)
>
>> AIPS 1: ZOPEN: FILE DA00:PWD000000;          NOT FOUND
>>
>> I'm not certain why it was looking for DA01, since that does not exists.
>>
>>
>
>$DA01 is your first data area.  $DA00 is the control file area
>which is $AIPS_ROOT/DA00/LOCALHOST/ in this case.
>
>I suspect because of the DADEVS.LIST problem, the 2 basic setup programs
>FILAIP and POPSGN did not run.
>
>source $AIPS_ROOT/LOGIN.CSH
>$CDTST
>RUN FILAIP
>8 2
>
>RUN POPSGN
>0 POPSDAT TST
>
>and another carriage return when it gives you the > prompt.
>
>Eric Greisen
>




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