I just completed the upgrade of everything, and after a reboot, I have got some broken software. I am getting error messages from the NCAR command language that "Specified Workstation is NOT Open. In addition, a system call to opngks_() could not open "wrf_mass_plots.ncgm" which is the file it needs to read to produce the metafile. What changed that would cause software to think the workstation is not open? Next question.. is it possible to undo the upgrade, or would I be better off doing a clean install of system files should this breakage not be repairable with simplicity? Sam -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20051018/9cc0d3cf/attachment-0002.html>
A bit more info: I discover I can execute the script as root, but not as my normal user self. SElinux is off, and as far as I know no other security devices are on. Whatever changed is affecting this and probably more, but have not had time to see what else got broken. Sam Drinkard wrote:> I just completed the upgrade of everything, and after a reboot, I have > got some broken software. I am getting error messages from the NCAR > command language that "Specified Workstation is NOT Open. In > addition, a system call to opngks_() could not open > "wrf_mass_plots.ncgm" which is the file it needs to read to produce > the metafile. > > What changed that would cause software to think the workstation is not > open? > > Next question.. is it possible to undo the upgrade, or would I be > better off doing a clean install of system files should this breakage > not be repairable with simplicity? > > Sam > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >-- Snowman
On Oct 18, 2005, at 2:09 PM, Sam Drinkard wrote:> I just completed the upgrade of everything, and after a reboot, I > have got some broken software. I am getting error messages from > the NCAR command language that "Specified Workstation is NOT Open. > In addition, a system call to opngks_() could not open > "wrf_mass_plots.ncgm" which is the file it needs to read to produce > the metafile. > > What changed that would cause software to think the workstation is > not open? > > Next question.. is it possible to undo the upgrade, or would I be > better off doing a clean install of system files should this > breakage not be repairable with simplicity? > > Sam > _______________________________________________ >I'm guessing you are talking about the NCAR graphics system. How was this software installed? It's not any kind of CentOS package that I am aware of (could be wrong though). I think you need to examine the error returns of your function calls more closely. In GKS, a workstation is a general term for a graphics device, and in your case, it looks like the metafile is the graphics device. You need to find out why it is unable to open the file. Tony