[daip] Strange problem with IMAGR...

Amy Mioduszewski amiodusz at nrao.edu
Thu Nov 30 16:11:38 EST 2017


Hi Nassim,

Eric is away for a couple of weeks.  I'm less of an expert, but I will 
try to help you.  Do you have a message file with your user number at 
all?  It would be identified by the user number, which is are the 
"numbers" after the "." in extended hex.

Amy


On 11/27/2017 03:16 PM, Nissim Kanekar wrote:
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> Yup, I noticed the information on the AIPS page, and re-installed 
> 31DEC17 (and also replaced 31DEC15 with 31DEC17 on another machine) 
> and the problems went away, and all's well now. The message file issue 
> is more puzzling; I don't seem to have a 0-byte MS* file in any of the 
> data areas, as far as I can see.
>
> Thanks!
> Nissim
>
> On Mon, 27 Nov 2017, Eric Greisen wrote:
>
>> On 11/23/2017 09:25 AM, Nissim Kanekar wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Eric,
>>>
>>> I've come across a strange problem with IMAGR and was wondering 
>>> whether you might have seen this before and might know a solution. 
>>> It's giving me the following error:
>>>
>>> ZMSFI2: REQUEST FOR BYTES 1 THRU = 0
>>> ZMSFI2: BEYOND EOF = 0
>>>   ZMSGDK: OPER = READ LUN = 12 NREC =        1
>>>   ZMSGER: SYSTEM I/O ERROR CODE =         -1
>>> MSGWRT ERROR      3 AT OPEN
>>> IMAGR1: ZFI2: DELAY 1
>>> ZMSFI2: REQUEST FOR BYTES 1 THRU = 0
>>> ZMSFI2: BEYOND EOF = 0
>>>   ZMSGDK: OPER = READ LUN = 12 NREC =        1
>>>   ZMSGER: SYSTEM I/O ERROR CODE =         -1
>>> MSGWRT ERROR      3 AT OPEN
>>> IMAGR1: ZABORS: signal 11 received
>>> ZMSFI2: REQUEST FOR BYTES 1 THRU = 0
>>> ZMSFI2: BEYOND EOF = 0
>>>   ZMSGDK: OPER = READ LUN = 12 NREC =        1
>>>   ZMSGER: SYSTEM I/O ERROR CODE =         -1
>>> MSGWRT ERROR      3 AT OPEN
>>> IMAGR1: ABORT!
>>> AIPS 1: TASK QUIT WITHOUT RESUMING ME
>>> AIPS 1: Begin check for any 'standard' scratch files
>>> AIPS 1: Scratch files -- destroyed:    2  still active:    0
>>> AIPS 1: Resumes
>>>
>>>
>>> Also, the message server shows NaN's as the beam minimum and maximum:
>>>
>>> QUIXOT> IMAGR1: Field    1 Beam min =    NaN      Jy, max =    
>>> NaN      Jy
>>> QUIXOT> IMAGR1: Fit Gaussian FWHM =   10.265 x 5.346      arcsec, 
>>> PA=  -61.5
>>>
>>> Do you have any idea what might be going on?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Nissim
>>>
>>
>> You seem to have 2 problems - the first is that your message file is 
>> 0 bytes. Go to your first data area and delete the MS* file with 0 
>> bytes (it has your user number in extended hex in the name).
>>
>> The second seems to be a problem that is creeping around the world. 
>> Install or run a MNJ on 31DEC17 to get a whole new set of load 
>> modules compiled with gfortran - the Intel compiler has something not 
>> compatible with the latest operating systems although we have not 
>> been able to determine what that might be.
>>
>> ERic Greisen
>>
>>
>
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