[daip] Quick AIPS installation question

[Eric Greisen]

On 1/20/2011 4:29 PM, Sarah Tuttle wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> Thanks for your quick reply.
>
> I was getting the shared memory issue, you were right.  I went and 
> created a file to modify the shared memory.  The contents are listed 
> below:
>
> kern.sysv.shmmax=16777216
> kern.sysv.shmmin=1
> kern.sysv.shmmni=32
> kern.sysv.shmseg=8
> kern.sysv.shmall=4096
>
>
> But i still get the shared memory error! I did restart my computer, 
> and confirmed using $sysctl kern.sysv that the shared memory had 
> changed. Results below:
>
> bash-3.2$ sysctl kern.sysv
> kern.sysv.shmmax: 16777216
> kern.sysv.shmmin: 1
> kern.sysv.shmmni: 32
> kern.sysv.shmseg: 8
> kern.sysv.shmall: 4096
> kern.sysv.semmni: 87381
> kern.sysv.semmns: 87381
> kern.sysv.semmnu: 87381
> kern.sysv.semmsl: 87381
> kern.sysv.semume: 10
> kern.sysv: no such MIB
>
> And the output from aips (which is still starting the  tek and msg 
> servr windows):
>
> START_AIPS: I am GUESSING you are at a workstation called anansi
> START_AIPS: Starting TV servers on anansi asynchronously
> START_AIPS:  - with Internet Sockets...
> START_AIPS: Starting TPMON daemons on ANANSI asynchronously...
> Starting up 31DEC10 AIPS with normal priority
> DADEVS.PL: This program is untested under Perl version 5.010
> XASERVERS: Start TV LOCK daemon TVSERV on anansi
> Begin the one true AIPS number 1 (release of 31DEC10) at priority =   0
> XASERVERS: Start XAS on anansi, DISPLAY /tmp/launch-NuIvni/org.x:0
> XASERVERS: Start graphics server TEKSRV on anansi, DISPLAY 
> /tmp/launch-NuIvni/org.x:0
> XASERVERS: Start message server MSGSRV on anansi, DISPLAY 
> /tmp/launch-NuIvni/org.x:0
> TVSERVER: Starting AIPS TV locking, Inet domain
> XAS: ** TrueColor FOUND!!!
> XAS: ***  Using shared memory option for speed ***
> XAS: Using screen width 5110 height 1340,
>      max grey level 8191 in 16 grey-scale memories
> Shared memory id failure: Invalid argument
>
> Thanks again for your assistance.
>
> Sarah
>
>
> On 1/20/11 4:15 PM, Eric Greisen wrote:
>> Sarah Tuttle wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I just installed the DEC10 version on my desktop (running mac os 
>>> X).  I'm having trouble getting the tv display to appear.  I tried 
>>> changing my .bashrc to include "export DISPLAY=localhost:0", but 
>>> that didn't spawn a new window, and actually stopped the appearance 
>>> of the other two windows (tekserver and message window) that had 
>>> been working.  We tried a few variants but didn't have any luck.  
>>> Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
>>
>> First - get rid of any setting of DISPLAY.  That used to be required 
>> for Macs and now destroys them with the method that Snow Leopard uses 
>> to invoke X Windows applications.  Then try again and send me all the 
>> messages that AIPS puts out.  I will bet in advance that it complains 
>> about shared memory.  The the AIPS Manager FAQ for the cure for that:
>>       http://www.aips.nrao.edu/aipsmgr/index.html
>>
>> ERic Greisen

Our systems guru guesses that you may need bigger numbers
67108864 and shmall 16384.

Give it a try

Eric Greisen