[daip] AIPS on High Sierra - TV

Eric Greisen egreisen at nrao.edu
Wed Oct 31 10:34:37 EDT 2018


On 10/31/2018 07:20 AM, Lawrence Rudnick wrote:
> Eric - I just did a new AIPS 31DEC18 install on mac laptop running High 
> Sierra, 10.13.6 .  I followed the El Capitan instructions.  A few little 
> glitches, but seem to be straightened out.  However, getting error about 
> shared memory that's keeping the TV from opening.  If i completely 
> remove the sysctl.conf file i entered, get same error.  I also killed 
> XQuartz and let it start itself automatically with aips.  Same problem. 
> TEK message windows coming up fine.   Following is some info, you 
> probably need more, so please just let me know. thanks.
> 

> bash-3.2$ cat sysctl.conf
> kern.sysv.shmmax=10485760
> kern.sysv.shmmin=1
> kern.sysv.shmmni=32
> kern.sysv.shmseg=8
> kern.sysv.shmall=4096
> bash-3.2$
>

Try 16777216 you have a very large screen so I suspect that you require 
at least 12 Mbytes.

Eric



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