[daip] display problem

Eric Greisen egreisen at nrao.edu
Tue Aug 23 11:55:35 EDT 2011


abdo medo wrote:
> Hi Eric
> thank you for your reply
> 
> I have tried to find out where xterm in my machines but I do not know 
> where is it.
> look at that:
> [abdelra at localhost ~]$ locate 
> xterm                                             
> /usr/share/X11/icewm/icons/xterm_16x16.xpm                                       
> 
> /usr/share/X11/icewm/icons/xterm_32x32.xpm                                       
> 
> /usr/share/doc/libncurses-devel/test/xterm-16color.dat                           
> 
> /usr/share/doc/libncurses-devel/test/xterm-88color.dat                           
> 
> /usr/share/icons/Oxygen_Black/cursors/xterm                                      
> 
> /usr/share/icons/Oxygen_Black_Big/cursors/xterm                                  
> 
> /usr/share/icons/Oxygen_Blue/cursors/xterm                                       
> 
> /usr/share/icons/Oxygen_Blue_Big/cursors/xterm                                   
> 
> /usr/share/icons/Oxygen_White/cursors/xterm
> /usr/share/icons/Oxygen_White_Big/cursors/xterm
> /usr/share/icons/Oxygen_Yellow/cursors/xterm
> /usr/share/icons/Oxygen_Yellow_Big/cursors/xterm
> /usr/share/icons/Oxygen_Zion/cursors/xterm
> /usr/share/icons/Oxygen_Zion_Big/cursors/xterm
> /usr/share/icons/contrastlarge/cursors/xterm
> /usr/share/icons/contrastlarge/cursors/xterm_extra_large
> /usr/share/icons/handhelds/cursors/xterm
> /usr/share/icons/redglass/cursors/xterm
> /usr/share/icons/whiteglass/cursors/xterm
> /usr/share/icons/wonderland/cursors/xterm
> /usr/share/lynx_help/keystrokes/xterm_help.html
> /usr/share/terminfo/n/nxterm
> /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm
> /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-color
> /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-debian
> /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm2
> /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterms
> /usr/share/vte/termcap/xterm
> /usr/share/xclass/icons/mini.xterm.xpm
> /usr/share/xclass/icons/xterm-axp.xpm
> /usr/share/xcla ss/icons/xterm-blank.xpm
> /usr/share/xclass/icons/xterm-dec.xpm
> /usr/share/xclass/icons/xterm-sgi.xpm
> /usr/share/xclass/icons/xterm-sol.xpm
> /usr/share/xclass/icons/xterm-sun.xpm
> /usr/share/xclass/icons/xterm.xpm
> /var/ftp/pub/Mandrivalinux/media/main/xterm-236-1mdv2009.0.i586.rpm
> 
> as for the TV this is what I get for TVINIT
>  >tvinit
> AIPS 1: ZSSSO2 connect (UNIX), No such file or directory
> AIPS 1: ZSSSOP: CHANNEL ASSIGN ERROR FOR LUN    9
> AIPS 1: YTVOPN: TV OPEN ERROR      6
> AIPS 1: TV OPEN ERROR      6
> 
> What can I do?
> 
> Cheers
> abdo
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Abdel-rahman Mouner Ahmed
> Teaching Assistant,
> Al Azhar University
> Faculty of science at Cairo
> Department of Astronomy and Meteorology
> Nasr City,Postal Code 11884
> Cairo,Egypt
> 
> 
> Tel. 0020222618163 Work
> Tel. 0020195117627 Cell Fax 0020222629356 Work
> 
> --- On *Wed, 8/10/11, Eric Greisen /<egreisen at nrao.edu>/* wrote:
> 
> 
>     From: Eric Greisen <egreisen at nrao.edu>
>     Subject: Re: display problem
>     To: "abdo medo" <abdo11495 at yahoo.com>
>     Cc: daip at nrao.edu
>     Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2011, 7:50 AM
> 
>     abdo medo wrote:
>      > Hi Eric
>      >
>      > I installed aips on my pc but the tv, tek, and message windows do
>     not work and I have this message:
>      > --------------------------------
>      > [abdelra at localhost aips]$ 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:
>      > DADEVS.PL: This program is untested under Perl version 5.010
>      >   (Using global default file /home/abdelra/aips/DA00/DADEVS.LIST
>     for DADEVS.PL)
>      >    Disk 1 (1) is /home/abdelra/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 31DEC11 AIPS with normal priority
>      > Begin the one true AIPS number 1 (release of 31DEC11) at priority
>     =   0
>      > AIPS 1: You are not on a local TV device, welcome stranger
>      > AIPS 1: You are assigned TV device/server   2
>      > AIPS 1: You are assigned graphics device/server   2
>      > AIPS 1: Enter user ID number
>      > ?DADEVS.PL: This program is untested under Perl version 5.010
>      > UNIXSERVERS: TVSRV1 is already running on host localhost, user
>     abdelra
>      > UNIXSERVERS: Start XAS1 on localhost, DISPLAY :0
>      > UNIXSERVERS: Start graphics server TKSRV1 on localhost, display :0
>      > /home/abdelra/aips/31DEC11/SYSTEM/UNIX/UNIXSERVERS: line 339:
>     xterm: command not found
>      > UNIXSERVERS: Start message server MSSRV1 on localhost, display :0
>      > /home/abdelra/aips/31DEC11/SYSTEM/UNIX/UNIXSERVERS: line 447:
>     xterm: command not found
>      > ----------------------------------------
>      >  Thanks in advance,
>      >              Abdel-Rahman
>      >
>      >
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>      > Abdel-rahman Mouner Ahmed
>      > Teaching Assistant,
>      > Al Azhar University
>      > Faculty of science at Cairo
>      > Department of Astronomy and Meteorology
>      > Nasr City,Postal Code 11884
>      > Cairo,Egypt
>      >
>      >
>      > Tel. 0020222618163 Work
>      > Tel. 0020195117627 Cell Fax 0020222629356 Work
>      >
> 
>     The error message that matters appears to be "xterm command not found"
>     which means that your default $PATH does not contain the command "xterm"
> 
>     For the message server you may use any of many kinds of windows -
>     type HELP MSGSRV inside aips.  The TEK server requires an xterm
>     since only xterms contain an emulation of a TekTronix graphics
>     display.  Fixing your default $PATH would be the best solution - all
>     Linux machines come with xterm software I believe.
> 
>     As for the TV (XAS) you have shown nothing to suggest that it is not
>     working.  It comes up in iconified form - look for it.  Try the
>     command inside aips TVINIT.  What does it say?  If nothing, then the
>     TV is present and working.
> 
>     Eric Greisen
> 

What operating system are you using and what version?

Start up aips and then in another window cd /tmp
and do an ls -l.  Send me the full outputs of both.

What sort of window are you using to issue the aips tv=local command?

I am sending this to a systems person who may be able to provide more 
advice.  Note that our xterm comes with the OS and is in /usr/bin .

Eric Greisen


Eric Greisen




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