[daip] Help on installing AIPS on MacBook Pro

[Eric Greisen]

khadija El Bouchefry wrote:
> Dear Prof. Eric
> 
>  I am Post doc at the University of KwaZulu Natal (South Africa).  I 
> have installed AIPS on a Macbook Pro (10.6.3, X86_64) using a binary 
> installation but when I run aips (from an X11 terminal) the TV does not 
> work. I followed all the instructions given at the aips website but in vain.
> 
> I have created the /etc/sysctl.conf where I've added the following value :
> 
>             kern.sysv.shmmax=10485760
>             kern.sysv.shmmin=1
>             kern.sysv.shmmni=32
>             kern.sysv.shmseg=8
>             kern.sysv.shmall=4096
> 
> but still the TV did not work.
> 
> I also typed "xdpyinfo | more" and that's what I see:
> 
> default visual id: 0x22
> 
> visual: visual id: 0x22
> 
> class: PseudoColor
> 
> depth: 8 planes.
> 
> When I did run aips from the X11 terminal, I ve got the following message:
> 
> <<START_AIPS: User data area assignments:
> 
> DADEVS.PL <http://dadevs.pl/>: This program is untested under Perl version 5.010
> 
>   (Using global default file /Users/fethiahmed/Aips/DA00/DADEVS.LIST for DADEVS.PL <http://dadevs.pl/>)
>    Disk 1 (1) is /Users/fethiahmed/Aips/DATA/LOCALHOST_1
> 
> 
> Tape assignments: 
>    Tape 1 is REMOTE
>    Tape 2 is REMOTE
>  
> 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 31DEC11 AIPS with normal priority
> DADEVS.PL <http://dadevs.pl/>: This program is untested under Perl version 5.010
> XASERVERS: Start TV LOCK daemon TVSERV on localhost
> 
> XASERVERS: Start XAS on localhost, DISPLAY /tmp/launch-g9f63g/org.x:0
> TVSERVER: Starting AIPS TV locking, Inet domain
> XASERVERS: Start graphics server TEKSRV on localhost, DISPLAY /tmp/launch-g9f63g/org.x:0
> 
> XASERVERS: Start message server MSGSRV on localhost, DISPLAY /tmp/launch-g9f63g/org.x:0
> STARTPMON: [LOCALHOST] Starting TPMON1 with output SUPPRESSED
> Begin the one true AIPS number 1 (release of 31DEC11) at priority =   0 
> 
> XAS: ***********************************
> XAS: **  No TrueColor found
> XAS: **  Resorting to PseudoColor
> 
> XAS: ***********************************
> XAS: ***  Using shared memory option for speed ***
> XAS: Using screen width 1430 height 778,
> 
>      max grey level 196 in 16 grey-scale memories
> *Shared memory id failure: Cannot allocate memory*
> AIPS 1: You are assigned TV device/server   1
> 
> AIPS 1: You are assigned graphics device/server   1
> AIPS 1: Enter user ID number
> ?12
> AIPS 1:                          31DEC11 AIPS:
> 
> AIPS 1:      Copyright (C) 1995-2010 Associated Universities, Inc.
> AIPS 1:            AIPS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY;
> AIPS 1:                 for details, type HELP GNUGPL
> 
> AIPS 1: This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> AIPS 1: under certain conditions; type EXPLAIN GNUGPL for details.
> AIPS 1: Previous session command-line history recovered.
> 
> AIPS 1: TAB-key completions enabled, type HELP READLINE for details.
> AIPS 1: Recovered POPS environment from last exit
>>>
> 
> So I am just wondering if you could help to run aips on my MacBook?

Go to System Preferences and select Displays.  in that window select 
millions of colors rather than 256.  The pseudo-color mode of XAS has 
not been adequately tested of late since no one in their right mind 
would use it on modern computers.

You do have to set a reasonable large size for shared memory and be sure
to reboot after creating the necessary file.

Eric Greisen