Re: idt "illegal seek" problem

From: Mary Haley (haley AT XXXXXX)
Date: Mon Jan 05 2004 - 14:01:11 MST

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    >
    > Howdy,
    >
    > I've gone through the archives and seen this sort of question
    > asked a couple of times, but there's no evidence of a reply.
    >
    > I recently compiled/installed NCAR Graphics on a RedHat 7.3
    > Linux machine using the PGI 3.3 f90 compiler. All seemed to
    > go well, and the ncargex command works.
    >
    > However, the idt command doesn't seem to work. I'm going
    > throught the MM5 online tutorial and trying to display
    > various graphics (as instructed in the tutorial) and in
    > all cases, when I fire up idt, I get the following:
    >
    > ----------------------------------
    > localhost:GRAPH% idt gmeta
    > reading stdout of translator: Illegal seek
    > Translator aborted
    > ----------------------------------
    >
    > The control window pops up, but no image, and no
    > apparent way to bring one in.
    >
    > Is this a problem that others know anything about?
    >
    > Thanks
    >
    > --
    >
    > Don Morton http://www.cs.umt.edu/~morton/
    > Department of Computer Science The University of Montana

    Don,

    Usually when idt gets a "translator aborted" error message, this means
    that something is wrong with the "ictrans" application, since this is
    the application that idt uses to display the graphics.

    You should test that ictrans was built and that it is working
    properly. First, see if it exists:

         % which ictrans

    If ictrans doesn't exist, then this command will report something like
    "ictrans: Command not found". If ictrans doesn't exist, then you
    should look at your "make-output" file to see what happened when
    ictrans was built.

    If ictrans does exist, then try the following test:

         % tgks0a
         % ictrans -d X11 gmeta
         ictrans> 1p
      [This should pop up an X11 window with a graphic]
         ictrans> quit

    If this works, then something else is going on with idt, and you can
    contact me personally and I'll try to help.

    -Mary

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