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v2.16 background jobs

Tom Duvall wrote on Jul 04, 2012

I just installed the 64-bit v2.16 system on one of our linux systems. Much seems to work fine, but when I try to put a job in the background (with &), I get the following message:
BKG ERROR: new CL installed; logout and try again

I have tried logging out and back in with no luck. Have I made some error in the installation?
Tom

Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Jul 04, 2012

I'll have a closer look tomorrow, but it appears to be an issue that goes back to v2.15 as well and not something you've done. I can reproduce it on a 32-bit system so for the moment you'll need to run in the foreground.

Tom Duvall wrote on Jul 04, 2012

I don't have any problems with v2.15 background jobs.
Tom

Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Jul 04, 2012

This has been fixed and only affects the new VOCL (background jobs were incorrectly using the ECL binary). For 64-bit linux you can get a new binary at

ftp://iraf.noao.edu/iraf/v216/support/linux64/vocl.e

Just download in binary mode and install in your $iraf/bin.linux64 directory. Thanks again for the report.

Tom Duvall wrote on Jul 04, 2012

That has fixed the problem.
Thanks much.
Tom

Lowell Tacconi-Garman wrote on Dec 03, 2014


I am running iraf 2.16 on an iMac running Mac OS X 10.9.5 and am having the same error:

BKG ERROR: new CL installed; logout and try again

I tried the solution of downloading the file mentioned above but, perhaps not surprisingly, I was unable to execute the command due to architecture mismatch.

Any ideas how to get this fixed these days?

Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Dec 03, 2014



The proper binary for your system is available at

ftp://iraf.noao.edu/iraf/v216/support/macintel/vocl.e

Download in binary mode, make executable and put in your $iraf/bin.macintel directory.

Lowell Tacconi-Garman wrote on Jul 16, 2015


I realize it's been quite a while since the solution was posted, but I've just now had the chance to try it out. Sorry to say that this did not fix the problem. I still get this error:

vocl\$this->_split2($m[0]) BKG ERROR: new CL installed; logout and try again

Any further suggestions are more than welcome!

Lowell Tacconi-Garman wrote on Jul 16, 2015


I can confirm now that this problem is either unrelated to Mac OS X 10.9.5 or at least also present with 10.7.5. Both Macs that I ran into this problem with are running V2.16 though. (And both are 64-bit.)

Ole Streicher wrote on Feb 05, 2018


That seems a bug in the 2.16/2.16.1 code; I just filed a bug report #131 on github.

Last post on Feb 05, 2018