ximtool-alt

Guest wrote on Dec 08, 2005

Hi Mike,

I'm afraid neither of these options worked :( I'm still getting the same
error (in fact I have an extra error to do with the menubar when using
the second binary set you suggested). Any other suggestions? :)

Many thanks,

Emma :)

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Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 09:51:11 -0700 (MST)
From: Mike Fitzpatrick <fitz@tucana.tuc.noao.edu>
To: IRAF Sites <sites@tucana.tuc.noao.edu>, Emma Hogan
<eh54@star.le.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: ximtool-alt

Hi Emma,
You can get a newer binary from

ftp://iraf.noao.edu/pub/fitz/x11iraf-v1.3.2-bin.redhat.tar.gz

These are Redhat binaries but should work on your system. If not, then
try using a hacked source distribution at

ftp://iraf.noao.edu/pub/fitz/x11iraf-new_gcc.tgz

You can compile from source using the commands

% xmkmf
% make World

Hope this helps, let us know if you still have problems.

Cheers,
Mike Fitzpatrick

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On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Emma Hogan wrote:

Hi there,

I have recently had my work machine upgraded to scientific linux. I used
to use ximtool-alt in vncviewer on redhat 7.3 (I think) as that was the
only way I could get ximtool-alt to work (I set the vncviewer to have an 8
bit Pseudo color display). Now when I try to run ximtool-alt in vncviewer
I get the following error:

Warning: cannot open /dev/imt1o

/tmp/_gui.cmds.7541: line 1: 7544 Segmentation fault ximtool -gui
/tmp/_gui.7541 -title " XImtool V1.3 - Alternative GUI "

I know it has nothing to do with the Pseudo color as I had that problem
first, and just had to change my vncviewer command slightly so that it
still ran with 8 bit Pseudo color. Do you know if there's a problem with
running ximtool-alt on Scientific Linux? Please help.

Many thanks,

Emma :)

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Emma Hogan, room : F19b
Department of Physics and Astronomy, e-mail : eh54@star.le.ac.uk
University of Leicester, tel : +44 (0)116 223 1385
Leicester, fax : +44 (0)116 252 2770
LE1 7RH, UK.
web: http://www.star.le.ac.uk/~eh54

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Emma Hogan, room : F19b
Department of Physics and Astronomy, e-mail : eh54@star.le.ac.uk
University of Leicester, tel : +44 (0)116 223 1385
Leicester, fax : +44 (0)116 252 2770
LE1 7RH, UK.
web: http://www.star.le.ac.uk/~eh54

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Guest wrote on Dec 08, 2005

> I'm afraid neither of these options worked :( I'm still getting the same
> error (in fact I have an extra error to do with the menubar when using
> the second binary set you suggested). Any other suggestions? :)
>
> :
>
> I have recently had my work machine upgraded to scientific linux. I used
> to use ximtool-alt in vncviewer on redhat 7.3 (I think) as that was the
> only way I could get ximtool-alt to work (I set the vncviewer to have an 8
> bit Pseudo color display). Now when I try to run ximtool-alt in vncviewer
> I get the following error:
>
> Warning: cannot open /dev/imt1o

Hi Emma,
I missed this last warning message in your original mail. The
segvio is being caused by the missing fifo pipes on the machine. These
should be created by the IRAF install script but in the meantime you can
work around it using

% ximtool-alt -unix_only

so it won't look for the fifos, or else simply create them. This is on
the growing list of things to fix for ximtool, let me know if that doesn't
fix it.

Cheers,
-Mike

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Guest wrote on Dec 08, 2005

Hi Mike,

The -unix_only tag works fine, thank you! If the x11iraf package was
re-installed, would that solve the problem? I never had this problem using
redhat...

Thanks again,

Emma :)

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Mike Fitzpatrick wrote:

> I'm afraid neither of these options worked :( I'm still getting the same
> error (in fact I have an extra error to do with the menubar when using
> the second binary set you suggested). Any other suggestions? :)
>
> :
>
> I have recently had my work machine upgraded to scientific linux. I used
> to use ximtool-alt in vncviewer on redhat 7.3 (I think) as that was the
> only way I could get ximtool-alt to work (I set the vncviewer to have an 8
> bit Pseudo color display). Now when I try to run ximtool-alt in vncviewer
> I get the following error:
>
> Warning: cannot open /dev/imt1o

Hi Emma,
I missed this last warning message in your original mail. The
segvio is being caused by the missing fifo pipes on the machine. These
should be created by the IRAF install script but in the meantime you can
work around it using

% ximtool-alt -unix_only

so it won't look for the fifos, or else simply create them. This is on
the growing list of things to fix for ximtool, let me know if that doesn't
fix it.

Cheers,
-Mike

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Emma Hogan, room : F19b
Department of Physics and Astronomy, e-mail : eh54@star.le.ac.uk
University of Leicester, tel : +44 (0)116 223 1385
Leicester, fax : +44 (0)116 252 2770
LE1 7RH, UK.
web: http://www.star.le.ac.uk/~eh54

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Guest wrote on Dec 08, 2005

No, the bug is still present in the current code. You can create the
pipes as root using the commands

mkfifo /dev/imt1o /dev/imt1o
chmod 666 /dev/imt1o /dev/imt1i

or to make a permanent personal change you can either set the 'input_fifo'
resource to be 'none' or simply alias the command to use the -unix_only
flag.

Cheers,
-Mike

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