[daip] AIPS install error

[須藤広志]

Dear Dr. Greisen,

Thank you very much for your comments.
I finished installing AIPS successfully.

Minor trouble occurred that AIPS_ROOT 
directry in START_AIPS was different 
with that I defined. This was easy to
be solved.

Sincerely yours,

Hiroshi



----- Original Message -----
> 須藤広志 wrote:
> > Dear Sirs,
> > 
> > I am writing to enquire if it would be 
> > possible to answer a problem of binary
> > installing AIPS (31DEC12).
> > 
> > Just after the MNJ started, the installing 
> > process stops with error messages (see the
> > file 'error_aips_install.txt').
> > 
> > As the message said, I tried to run FILAIP,
> > but it did not work due to the DADEVS.PL error.
> > (data disks seem to be established, see the
> > file 'DADEVS.LIST') .
> > 
> > My OS is VINE Linux 6 (Japanese LINUX based on
> > REDHAT), Kernel-2.6.35.13, with VMware player
> > on Win7.
> > 
> > The file .AIPSRC is also attatched.
> > If you have any questions or need other detail 
> > information, please let me know.
> > 
> > I should be very happy if I could use the newest
> > AIPS as soon as possible.
> 
> Thank you for all this information - it makes it easier to debug the
> problems.  First, the issue with not being able to run FILAIP comes 
from
> the fact that you requested the installation to be as if on a single
> computer (LAPTOP="YES").  This means that, so far as AIPS is concerned,
> your machine is named LOCALHOST not GIFU.  The DADEVS file sets up 
disk
> areas but only for the computer GIFU.  There are several ways to fix
> this (do only one of them):
> 1. Change that choice - edit $AIPS_ROOT/LOGIN.{CSH,SH} (2 files) to 
set
> the YES to NO in each file.  In this case the directory (folder) named
> $AIPS_ROOT/DA00 must have a directory for GIFU.
> 2. Change DADEVS.LIST as attached, make sure that $AIPS_ROOT/DA00 has 
a
> directory named LOCALHOST (it can be a link file [ln -s] to GIFU), and
> then there need to be link files (ln -s) of each LOCALHOST file in
> DADEVS.LIST to the corresponding GIFU data directories.
> 3.  Change your current DADEVS.LIST file by making the minus signs in
> column 1 be plus signs.  This makes all of the data areas required for
> all computers.
> 
> Then you can
> RUN FILAIP
> 6 2
> RUN POPSGN
> 0 POPSDAT TST
> and one more carriage return (Enter key)
> 
> The failure to set up the MNJ is more mysterious.
> MAKE.BMNJ - cvs needs to be primed by a login operation; this
> MAKE.BMNJ - is also a good time to test and make sure you can
> MAKE.BMNJ - connect to our server. We will now try to login to
> MAKE.BMNJ - the server (mnj.aoc.nrao.edu); when prompted for
> MAKE.BMNJ - a password, just hit the enter or return key.
> Logging in to :pserver:anoncvs at mnj.aoc.nrao.edu:2401/home/aipssrc/cvs
> CVS password:
> cvs login: authorization failed: server mnj.aoc.nrao.edu rejected 
access
> to /home/aipssrc/cvs for user anoncvs
> 
> Try
> cd $AIPS_ROOT
> source LOGIN.CSH      (or . LOGIN.SH)
> $CDTST
> cd $AIPS_ROOT/31DEC12/LINUX/UPDATE
> MAKE.BMNJ
> 
> and when you are prompted for a password simply hit the Enter (
carriage
> return) key.  Do not type anything else.
> Let's see if that works with another try.
> 
> Eric Greisen
> 
> 
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Hiroshi SUDOU
Faculty of Engineering, Gifu University
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