[daip] Fwd: Re: Obit

[Eric Greisen]

Jacqueline van Gorkom wrote:
>   Hi Eric,
> 
>    I KNOW I don't deserve ANY help, but I thought I would ask
> you anyway.. 
> We installed OBIT at Columbia and my student just tried running
> BDF2AIPS.. she got the error message listed below.
> 
> It is immediately obvious to you what we did wrong?  Is this
> something I should ask Bill.
> 
> Or should we just figure this out ourselves?
> 
> Thanks
> jacqueline
> 
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	Re: Obit
> Date: 	Tue, 1 Nov 2011 22:02:04 -0400
> From: 	Ximena Fernández <ximena at astro.columbia.edu>
> To: 	David Secrest <secrest at astro.columbia.edu>
> CC: 	Jacqueline van Gorkom <jvangork at astro.columbia.edu>
> 
> 
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> Thanks so much for installing it! I did, however, get an error message 
> when I tried running it with aips:
> 
>  >Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/home/cal/ximena/BDF2AIPS.run.01NOV2011.174313", line 24, in ?
>     x.g
>   File "/opt/obit/obit-1.1.387-6/share/obittalk/python/AIPSTask.py", 
> line 592, in __getattr__
>     return Task.__getattr__(self, name)
>   File "/opt/obit/obit-1.1.387-6/share/obittalk/python/Task.py", line 
> 283, in __getattr__
>     return self.go()
>   File "/opt/obit/obit-1.1.387-6/share/obittalk/python/ObitTask.py", 
> line 227, in go
>     self.wait(proxy, tid)
>   File "/opt/obit/obit-1.1.387-6/share/obittalk/python/AIPSTask.py", 
> line 484, in wait
>     output_dict = inst.wait(tid)
>   File 
> "/opt/obit/obit-1.1.387-6/share/obittalk/python/Proxy/ObitTask.py", line 
> 635, in wait
>     raise RuntimeError, msg
> RuntimeError: Task 'BDFIn' returns '1'
> 
> I'm not sure what this means, maybe Jacqueline could try using it to 
> know if she gets the same error?


I hope you are joking - you can have all the help I can give.  My bet is 
that there is something wrong either with the ASDMFILE adverb value or 
with the "file" itself.  Note that the tar file must be unpacked and 
ASDMFILE must give the full path name to the top directory.  ASDMFILE 
does NOT use the usual aips grammar 'LOGICAL:file'.  Try with BDFLIST 
first to make sure CONFIG is correct also.

Eric Greisen