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Hi Ben- Jeff and I have been in and out of town over the past few weeks. Did you get anywhere with this? Don > >Hi Ben- > > > > > >> I installed IDV on one of our Linux systems using install-anywhere. > >> It installed without error, but when I attempted to run it by > >> executing runIDV, I got the following error message: > >> > >> (callisto) IDV_1.3B1 : runIDV > >> Failed to make directory /home/foster/.metapps/DefaultIdv/plugins > >> Failed to make directory /home/foster/.metapps/DefaultIdv/extensions > >> Failed to make directory /home/foster/.metapps/DefaultIdv/datacache > >> Failed to make directory /home/foster/.metapps/DefaultIdv/tmp > >> Failed to make directory /home/foster/.metapps/DefaultIdv/tmp/nj22 > >> Failed to make directory /home/foster/.metapps/jython > >> *sys-package-mgr*: can't create package cache dir, > >> '/home/foster/.metapps/jython/cachedir/packages' > >> Failed to make directory /home/foster/.metapps/DefaultIdv/tmp > >> ERROR: An error has occurred: > >> Initializing the IDV > >> java.lang.NullPointerException > >> java.lang.NullPointerException > >> at > >> ucar.unidata.xml.XmlObjectStore.cleanupTmpDirectory(XmlObjectStore.java:195) > >> at > >> ucar.unidata.xml.XmlObjectStore.cleanupTmpDirectory(XmlObjectStore.java:182) > >> at > >> > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.initInner(IntegratedDataViewer.java:404) > >> at > >> ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer$2.run(IntegratedDataViewer.java:353) > >> at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$2.run(Misc.java:806) > >> > >> > >> > >> The system uname -a for callisto is as follows: > >> > >> Linux callisto 2.6.12-1.1381_FC3 #1 Fri Oct 21 03:46:55 EDT 2005 i686 > >> i686 i386 > >> GNU/Linux > >> > >> Since I don't have root, I installed on a local disk that I own > >> (not under my home). > >> > >> It did make the directory /home/foster/.metapps/DefaultIdv, but the > >> only file in it is idv.rbi and it is an empty file. I have no idea > >> why it could not make subdirs under ~/.metapps/DefaultIdv. Can you help? > >> Thanks, > > > >I'm stumped on this one. I would say it's either a permission problem > >or a disk space problem. Since it created the .metapps/DefaultIdv > >directory, it should have been able to create the subdirectories (which > >are empty). The idv.rbi file should be more than an empty file. > > > >Can you do: > > > >cd /home/foster > >ls -lg .metapps > >cd .metapps > >ls -l > >cd DefaultIdv > >ls -l > > > >and send the output to me. Also, could you check to make sure there's > >enough disk space on /home/foster? > > > >Thanks. > > > >Don > > > Don, thanks for the fast reply, here's the info. Permissions > on the dirs look ok, and if I interpret df -k correctly, I have > about 3.5 GB remaining under my home: > > > (callisto) foster : ls -lg .metapps > total 1 > drwxrwsr-x 2 tgcm 512 Mar 2 16:10 DefaultIdv/ > (callisto) foster : cd .metapps > > (callisto) .metapps : ls -l > total 1 > drwxrwsr-x 2 foster tgcm 512 Mar 2 16:10 DefaultIdv/ > (callisto) .metapps : cd DefaultIdv > > (callisto) DefaultIdv : ls -l > total 0 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 foster tgcm 0 Mar 2 16:10 idv.rbi > (callisto) DefaultIdv : > > > > (callisto) DefaultIdv : df -k /home/foster > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > jabba:/export/home/foster > 25557120 21800160 3501376 87% /home/foster > (callisto) DefaultIdv : > > > --Ben > > > > > > > >Ticket Details > >=================== > >Ticket ID: FAV-932592 > >Department: Support IDV > >Priority: Normal > >Status: Open > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ben Foster High Altitude Observatory (HAO) > address@hidden phone: 303-497-1595 fax: 303-497-1589 > Nat. Center for Atmos. Res. P.O. Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307 USA > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: FAV-932592 Department: Support IDV Priority: Critical Status: Open