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Steve, I was able to make gifs with NTL running. Then I had trouble getting the gifs to produce in a script, even when nothing else was running on the machine. But, it sounds like others have had this problem. So, I installed the Xvfb binaries as seems to be the thing to do from the archives...and voila...we're cookin' with gas. thanks for your help, Mike At 12:46 PM 6/13/00 -0600, you wrote: > > >Mike, >Chris' problem turned out to be that he had edited $GEMTBL/colors/coltbl.tbl >and >added more than 32 colors into the table. As it turned out, if you use NTL >which >uses the color tables in $NAWIPS/tables/nawips.clr, then the problem was >bypassed. >When he ran the gf driver without ntl, then the $GEMTBL/colors files are used. >See : http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/glimpse/gempak/3600 > >In general, if you are not using ntl, which makes sure you have all the colors >you will need), >then you run the risk of the driver not being able to obtain all the colors it >needs for >the graphic if you are sending to a display with browsers, answerbook etc >running on it. > >Steps to check for your problem. > >1) make sure you don't have any hung massage queue that are causing trouble >(ipcs will show these). > >2) Make sure you have your DISPLAY environmental variable set so that the >driver can contact the > X display. > >3) Check to see if you have a file or directory called "gf" in your woring >directory. If so, > gempak will try to execute that as the driver instead of $GEMEXE/gf. > >4) Make sure you can get all the colors you need by launching ntl. > > >Have you previously had success and now have a problem, or have you just >started to use the gf driver? >Remember, when running from a cron that you don't have the DISPLAY variable >set in the environment >until you define it in the script. Also make sure you can run other X programs >like xterm to >the display (Sun has magic cookies, and you must be allowed to draw to the >display). > > >Steve Chiswell >Unidata User Support > > > >>From: Michael Voss <address@hidden> >>Organization: UCAR/Unidata >>Keywords: 200006131834.e5DIYuT15191 > >>Steve, >> >>I'm trying to make some gifs with device=gf in gempak. I get an error: >>*** TERMINATING gf >>*** Received signal 11 SIGSEGV >> >>I looked in the support archives and followed a thread you had going with Chri >> s Hennon who seemed to have a similar problem. If I follow the conclusion of >> that correctly, you ended up copying over an executable built on your machine >> : >> >>>> I copied over my solaris executable of $GEMEXE/gf (moved the one built >>>> on your machine to $GEMEXE/gf.old. All appears to work fine using >>>> or copy. You will want to verify this on your own of course. >> >>...and this cleared up at least this portion of his problem. >> >>I'm running Solaris 2.6 with gempak patched through pl15. Could you make a sug >> gestion as to how I might proceed in my touble shooting efforts? >> >>Thank You, >> >>Mike >> >> >>-------------------------- >>Mike Voss >>Department of Meteorology >>San Jose State University >>One Washington Square >>San Jose, CA 95192-0104 >> >>408.924.5204 voice >>408.924.5191 fax >> > >**************************************************************************** < >Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program < >(303)497-8644 P.O. Box 3000 < >address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 < >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- < >Unidata WWW Service http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ < >**************************************************************************** < > > -------------------------- Mike Voss Department of Meteorology San Jose State University One Washington Square San Jose, CA 95192-0104 408.924.5204 voice 408.924.5191 fax