[daip] [EXT] Re: POSSM errors {External}

[Wara Chamani]

Dear Eric,
Thanks for your quick reply and help.
I realized that the pipeline works well if I run AIPS 2019 for example, I 
still need to try running MNJ to fix the problem for version 2023.
Best regards,
Wara

On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 16:17:13 +0000
  Eric Greisen <egreisen at nrao.edu> wrote:
> This "error" was corrected late in 2023.  If you run the MNJ 
>($HOME/do_daily.<hostname>) POSSM will be fixed.
> The CHANGE.DOC entry for this is:
> 15999.  November 14, 2023              GINIT                   Eric
>        Parseltongue made the horrible decision to bypass AIPS.EXE 
>and
>        start AIPS tasks directly.  This leads to the tasks not 
>having
>        correct information potentially.  The variable VERNAM which 
>is
>        normally TST:, NEW:, OLD:, or CVX: is used by GINIT to read 
>the
>        task help file.  Added code to set VERNAM to TST: if it is 
>not
>        correctly set.
>        Moved nowhere (this is a 31DEC23 only feature).
> 
> Eric Greisen
> 
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> Subject: [daip] POSSM errors {External}
> 
> Dear AIPS team,
> I am using ParselTongue software to run AIPS tasks from a Python 
>script
> developed by people from the JIVE team. The pipeline is originally 
>designed
> to calibrate EVN datasets. The main script is EVN.py which needs 
>external
> evn_aips_tasks.py and evn_funcs.py. These are found at
> https://www.jive.eu/jivewiki/doku.php?id=parseltongue:grimoire#the_evn_pipeline
> I am running their script for non-EVN data. The pipeline can load 
>the data
> and then when it goes to the step for plotting, the pipeline crashes 
>where
> POSSM is run. The AIPS error message I get is the following
> 
> POSSM4: Task POSSM  (release of 31DEC23) begins
> POSSM4: UVGET: doing no flagging this time
> POSSM4: POSSUV: at visibility number  1
> POSSM4: Averaged  6 visibilities from total data set of  196
> POSSM4: POSSUV: for antenna(s) GS
> POSSM4: Covering timerange  00/18:00:01 -  00/18:00:06
> POSSM4: Will plot  128 channels *  8 IFs polarization RR
> POSSM4: FILLPL: Amplitude mean:  1.2312E+00  rms:  3.6756E-01
> POSSM4: FILLPL: Phase mean:  0.0000E+00  rms:  0.0000E+00
> POSSM4: ZDIR: COULD NOT TRANSLATE LOGICAL =
> POSSM4: ZDIR:
> POSSM4: GINIT ERROR  2 ON OPENING TASK HELP FILE
> POSSM4: CATIO: CATBLK  1 IN USE, CAN'T WRITE
> POSSM4: DELEXT: CATIO WRITE ERROR  4
> POSSM4: REFRSH: ERROR  42 RECEIVED FROM PLCREA
> POSSM4: ZFIO: LUN = 26 NOT OPEN IN FTAB
> POSSM4: MTICS: GRAPH LABEL WRITING ERROR  1 FROM GVEC
> POSSM4: ZFIO: LUN = 26 NOT OPEN IN FTAB
> POSSM4: ZCLOSE: DOES NOT PERFORM TEXT FILE CLOSES AS OF 15OCT87
> POSSM4: DELEXT: NO EXTENSION FILE OF TYPE PL
> POSSM4: Purports to die of UNNATURAL causes
> 
> It gets stuck after FILLPL and I do not quite understand what is 
>happening
> here. I have never encountered such errors when running the same 
>parameters
> inside AIPS.
> Do you have any comments or advice on this? At least I would like to
> understand why POSSM is crashing like that.
> My best regards,
> Wara Chamani
> 
> 
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