[daip] AIPS on High Sierra - TV

[Lawrence Rudnick]

Assuming i was supposed to change shmmax?

bash-3.2$ more sysctl.conf
kern.sysv.shmmax=16777216
kern.sysv.shmmin=1
kern.sysv.shmmni=32
kern.sysv.shmseg=8
kern.sysv.shmall=4096

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got same error

XAS: Using screen width 3110 height 928,
      max grey level 8191 in 16 grey-scale memories
Shared memory id failure: Invalid argument

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lr


On 10/31/18 9:34 AM, Eric Greisen wrote:
> 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
>