[daip] New Staff Reply - [!BGW-693295]: AIPS Mac Instalation Problems

[Eric Greisen]

New Staff Reply: AIPS Mac Instalation Problems

This sounded familiar - but it was an Ubuntu Linux issue so no help there.

Have two xterms (at least) - one for doing ps and looking for processes
by various names.  In the other xterm in which you plan to start AIPS,

export AIPS_MSG_HOLD=YES
setenv AIPS_MSG_HOLD YES

where you use the first one with bash type shells and the second with
csh or tcsh type shells.  Then try

aips

and look all over for a process/window names AIPS_MSGSERV and see what it
says in the window.  The logical above should make that window stay forever
(until you kill it by hand) to give you a long time to read any error
messages that might appear.  You can also do the same with environment
variable AIPS_TEK_HOLD for the TEK window.  Look also for a process named XAS
although the messages you sent did not include any from XAS itself so I
suspect it failed to start at all (making it hard to debug).

There are a couple of things to try:

cd $AIPS_ROOT/31DEC12/MACINT/LOAD
mv XAS xas.save

and then cd (to your home area) and run the proc do_daily.localhost.  This
will download a new copy of XAS in case the previous was defective somehow.

Another thing - perhaps before the one above - is

aips tv=local

in case the failure lies in the local implementation of loop-back internet.
tv=local uses unix sockets instead - you can see them in the /tmp directory.

Let me know what comes out when you try these things.

Eric Greisen


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: BGW-693295
Department: AIPS Data Processing
Priority: Default
Status: Open
Link:  https://help.nrao.edu/staff/index.php?_m=tickets&_a=viewticket&ticketid=1870