[daip] Problems with AIPSDEC08 installation

[Miguel Ángel Pérez Torres]

Dear Dr. Greisen,

Thanks a lot for your help!

Indeed, the XAS seemed to be still running. Actually, looking at the  
messages given by "ps -f | grep AIPS" I got the following:

501  1716   347   0   0:00.00 ttys000    0:00.00 grep AIPS
501  1149   453   0   0:00.03 ttys001    0:00.07 AIPS1
501  1432     1   0   0:00.04 ttys001    0:00.09 ./XAS -display :0 -t  
X-AIPS tv Screen Server 98 - INET -n AIPS98-INET


So XAS was still running.
Killing the XAS process ("kill -9 <XAS_process_number>") resulted in  
throwing me out of AIPS.

However, using "aips tv=local" has solved the problem.  I am a bit  
puzzled, since I thought this (TV=local) was the default.
Anyway, the important thing is that this problem is now fixed.

Thanks a lot again for your help!

Miguel


On 09/01/2009, at 21:14, Eric Greisen wrote:

> Miguel Ángel Pérez Torres wrote:
>> Dear Dr. Greisen,
>> I have just made a binary installation of AIPS DEC08 in my Macbook  
>> Pro (Leopard, version 10.5.5). Everything seems to install properly  
>> and, as far as I don't run aips in TV mode, AIPS works. However, if  
>> I invoke aips in tv mode, the program stops once I introduce my  
>> aips number.
>> You can find below and example:
>> START_AIPS: I am GUESSING you are at a workstation called localhost
>> START_AIPS: Starting TV servers on localhost asynchronously
>> START_AIPS:  - with Internet Sockets...
>> 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: ZDCHIN: NO NETSP ENTRY FOR DA0B
>> AIPS 1: THIS MEANS THE TIMDEST LIMIT IS SET TO VALUE IN SP FILE OR  
>> 14.0
>> 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: TVSERV is already running on host localhost, user torres
>> XASERVERS: Start XAS on localhost, DISPLAY :0
>> XAS: ** TrueColor FOUND!!!
>> XAS: ***  Using shared memory option for speed ***
>> XAS: Using screen width 1430 height 800,
>>     max grey level 8191 in 16 grey-scale memories
>> XASERVERS: Start graphics server TEKSRV on localhost, DISPLAY :0
>> XASERVERS: Start message server MSGSRV on localhost, DISPLAY :0
>> AIPS 1: Enter user ID number
>> ?5876
>> At this point, the program stops reacting.
>> I am not sure whether this could be related to the fact that I use  
>> xgterm, which I actually need for getting labels and text in the TV  
>> (which I cannot get with a normal xterm), but this was not a  
>> problem in the past (you already helped me to fix this problem long  
>> ago).
>
> Is the XAS program still apparently running at this point?  What  
> happens if you kill the XAS?
>
> AIPS does try to open and close the TV right after reading the user  
> number in order to learn things about the TV (number planes, size of  
> planes, etc).  It would seem that it is unable to communicate.
>
> Have you set up the system services properly?  Try with TV=local
>
> Note that the xgterm is for the message and TEK services and should  
> not be relevant to the TV.
>
> Eric Greisen