[daip] Problems in setting up AIPS in a Macbook Pro with Mac OS X 10.6.3

Wed May 5 17:11:13 EDT 2010

You shouldn't set DISPLAY on Snow Leopard. I suggest firing up a new window and trying aips again.

wes
wyoung at aoc.nrao.edu

On May 5, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Miguel Ángel Pérez Torres wrote:

> Dear DAIP, 
> 
> I am installing AIPS in a Macbook Pro with Mac OS X 10.6.3.
> I followed your nice cookbook in the AIPS webpages, and everything seems to have worked well, 
> except for the following things
> 
> 1.-  For some reason, setting the DISPLAY does not allow to run AIPS. Let me explain:
> 
> If I set up the variable as: 
> 
> setenv DISPLAY :0.0 
> or
> setenv DISPLAY localhost:0, 
> 
> I then type 
> aips, and I get the following
> 
> 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 31DEC10 AIPS with normal priority
> Begin the one true AIPS number 2 (release of 31DEC10) at priority =   0 
> AIPS 1: ZDCHIN: NO NETSP ENTRY FOR DA0B
> AIPS 2: You are assigned TV device/server   1
> AIPS 2: You are assigned graphics device/server   1
> AIPS 2: Enter user ID number
> ?DADEVS.PL: This program is untested under Perl version 5.010
> XASERVERS: Start TV LOCK daemon TVSERV on localhost
> TVSERVER: Starting AIPS TV locking, Inet domain
> XASERVERS: Start XAS on localhost, DISPLAY :0
> XAS: ** TrueColor FOUND!!! 
> XAS: ***  Using shared memory option for speed ***
> XAS: Using screen width 1270 height 678,
>      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 2: Enter user ID number
> ?5876
> 
> At this point, AIPS doesn't run any further. In addition, the MSGSRV and the TV run OK, but the TVSERV complains as follows:
> 
> xgterm: Can't execvp  
> 
> and doesn't work. And this in spite of having removed the usual lines in the UNIXSERVERS and XASERVERS files, following your recommendations of a few years ago:
> 
>   *csh)
>           ($AIPS_TEK_EMULATOR -display $DISPLAY \
>             $AIPS_TEK_NAME_FLAG $AIPS_TEK_EXE_FLAG \
>             "setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH $LD_LIBRARY_PATH ;$LOAD/TEKSRV.EXE" &) ;;
> 
> removing the setenv command.  You may even have to remove the "'s.
> 
> Those lines read now as follows:
> 
> *csh)
>               ($AIPS_TEK_EMULATOR -display $DISPLAY \
>               $AIPS_TEK_NAME_FLAG $AIPS_TEK_EXE_FLAG \
>               &) ;;
> 
> 
> The only way to make it run is by typing 
> aips tv=local, but then I get a funny complain about xgterm that I cannot understand
> 
> UNIXSERVERS: Start message server MSSRV2 on localhost, display :0
> Trying to make hard link MSSRV2 to MSGSRV.EXE ...
> xgterm:  bad command line option "-e"
> 
> usage:  xgterm [-help] [-display displayname] [-geometry geom] [-G geom]
>     [-/+rv] [-bg color] [-fg color] [-bd color] [-bw number] [-fn fontname]
>     [-iconic] [-name string] [-title string] [-xrm resourcestring] [-/+132]
>     [-/+ah] [-b number] [-/+cb] [-cc classrange] [-/+cn] [-cr color] [-/+cu]
>     [-/+dc] [-/+sbr] [-fb fontname] [-/+im] [-/+j] [-/+l] [-lf filename]
>     [-/+ls] [-/+mb] [-mc milliseconds] [-ms color] [-nb number] [-/+aw] [-/+rw]
>     [-/+s] [-/+sb] [-/+sf] [-/+si] [-/+sk] [-sl number] [-tm string] [-tn name]
>     [-/+ut] [-/+vb] [-/+wf] [-e command args ...] [%geom] [#geom] [-T string]
>     [-n string] [-C] [-Sxxd]
> 
> Type xgterm -help for a full description.
> 
> 
> 
> In addition, in this case the xgterm does not appear at all.
> If I modify the AIPS_TEK_EMULATOR to
> 
> setenv AIPS_TEK_EMULATOR xterm
> 
> and run again aips: aips tv=local
> 
> I get the same complaint:
> 
> xterm:  bad command line option "-e"
> 
> usage:  xterm [-/+132] [-C] [-Sccn] [-T string] [-/+ah] [-/+ai] [-/+aw]
>     [-b number] [-/+bc] [-bcf milliseconds] [-bcn milliseconds] [-bd color]
>     [-/+bdc] [-bg color] [-bw number] [-/+cb] [-cc classrange] [-/+cjk_width]
>     [-class string] [-/+cm] [-/+cn] [-cr color] [-/+cu] [-/+dc]
>     [-display displayname] [-e command args ...] [-fa pattern] [-fb fontname]
>     [-/+fbb] [-/+fbx] [-fd pattern] [-fg color] [-fi fontname] [-fn fontname]
>     [-fs size] [-fw fontname] [-fwb fontname] [-fx fontname] [%geom] [#geom]
>     [-geometry geom] [-help] [-/+hm] [-/+hold] [-iconic] [-/+ie] [-/+im]
>     [-into windowId] [-/+j] [-/+k8] [-kt keyboardtype] [-/+l] [-/+lc]
>     [-lcc path] [-leftbar] [-lf filename] [-/+ls] [-/+maximized] [-/+mb]
>     [-mc milliseconds] [-/+mesg] [-/+mk_width] [-ms color] [-n string]
>     [-name string] [-nb number] [-/+nul] [-/+pc] [-/+pob] [-rightbar] [-/+rv]
>     [-/+rvc] [-/+rw] [-/+s] [-/+samename] [-/+sb] [-selbg color] [-selfg color]
>     [-/+sf] [-/+si] [-/+sk] [-sl number] [-/+sm] [-/+sp] [-/+t] [-ti termid]
>     [-title string] [-tm string] [-tn name] [-/+u8] [-/+uc] [-/+ulc] [-/+ulit]
>     [-/+ut] [-/+vb] [-version] [-/+wc] [-/+wf] [-xrm resourcestring]
>     [-ziconbeep percent]
> 
> Type xterm -help for a full description.
> 
> 
> Any hint of why it complains about an option I don't use (apparently)? I thought the responsible thing were the "'s I removed in the {UNIX,XA}SERVERS files, but it doesn't seem to be that, either. 
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help!
> Miguel
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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