[daip] [!13069]: AIPS - Tek Server Window Minimized after starting aips

[Eric Greisen]

Eric Greisen updated #13069
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Tek Server Window Minimized after starting aips
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           Ticket ID: 13069
                 URL: https://help.nrao.edu/staff/index.php?/Tickets/Ticket/View/13069
                Name: Peter Breiding
       Email address: peter.breiding at mail.wvu.edu
             Creator: User
          Department: AIPS Data Reduction
       Staff (Owner): Eric Greisen
                Type: Issue
              Status: Open
            Priority: Default
                 SLA: NRAO E2E
      Template group: Default
             Created: 28 November 2018 09:24 AM
             Updated: 28 November 2018 11:23 AM
           Reply due: 30 November 2018 10:11 AM (1d 22h 47m)
      Resolution due: 23 August 2021 05:00 PM (999d 5h 36m)

You are confusing Tek with TV.  Tek is a very old-fashioned emulationof a Tektronix 4010/4012 cathode-ray display.  It used to be wayfaster than the TV, so aips has tools like TKPL to plot the lines from aplot file on it.The TV on the other hand is now pretty fast and allows lots of grey-scaleand color displays such as UVPLT might generate with DOTV true.  TheTV starts as an icon called AIPSTV and will show on your screen.  The messagesfrom UVPLT tell me that the TV did not come up.  I will copy the aipsmgrFAQ about the usual problem on Macs.  The messages when aips startsup will tell you things like the Tv failing to come up.On the latest "leopard", "snow leopard", "lion", "mountain lion", and "yosemite" (X 10.5-10.10) systems, /etc/rc is gone and creating it will have no effect. You need to create an /etc/sysctl.conf file and put the values in it, kern.sysv.shmmax=10485760 kern.sysv.shmmin=1 kern.sysv.shmmni=32 kern.sysv.shmseg=8 kern.sysv.shmall=4096 You should use the values you had when you were running tiger. Those could be in /Previous\ System/etc/rc, assuming you have "Previous System". So three different OS upgrades and three different ways to adjust the default shared memory. Note: You will need to reboot the system for the change in shared memory to take place. You can check if the shared memory changes happened by typing "sysctl kern.sysv" in a terminal or xterm window. Look for the kern.sysv.shm* values. If the values have not changed, make sure you haven't inadvertently left in "sysctl -w" in the /etc/sysctl.conf file or mis-typed one of the values. If the /etc/sysctl.conf file is not properly formatted, or shmmax is not an integer multiple of shmall, the shared memory will not be adjusted after the reboot.  Eric Greisen


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