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Re: 'bgerror' on starting Gaia

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"Matthijs H.D. van der Wiel" <[log in to unmask]>

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Starlink Software User Support <[log in to unmask]>

Date:

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:10:40 +0100

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Hi Peter,

Thanks for this suggestion.

The X11-server I have on Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Leopard) is:
XQuartz 2.1.6 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple33)

And xdpyinfo tells me the following about the resolution:
resolution:    -2147483648x-2147483648 dots per inch

I did not change anything in the X11 settings, as far as I can recall.
With your suggestion that X11 might be the problem here, I simply
tried quitting X11 completely, and starting it back up. And now Gaia
starts without a problem. Perhaps my X11 had been running so long
without being restarted that something went wrong there...

Thanks again; problem solved. Sorry for bothering you.


Cheers,
Matthijs



On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Peter W. Draper
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Matthijs H.D. van der Wiel wrote:
>
>> I am getting an unexpected error trying to start Gaia from the
>> terminal. I am running the Nanahope release of Starlink on a Mac OS X
>> 10.5 system. I do not recall having changed any settings of my system
>> since the last time it worked correctly.
>>
>> The error I get is the following:
>>
>> ~/data> gaia &
>> [2] 25482
>> ~/data> GAIA_DIR = /star/bin/gaia
>> bgerror failed to handle background error.
>>   Original error: bad pad value "1m": must be positive screen distance
>>   Error in bgerror: bad pad value "3m": must be positive screen distance
>>
>> Any ideas on what could be causing this?
>
> Hi Matthijs,
>
> this same error message came up on another list back in March 2009 for
> someone running _10.4_, which came down to a mis-configuration in the X11
> server:
>
>> > Have a look at the output from the command "xdpyinfo", somewhere in >
>> > that you should find a line reporting the resolution:
>> >
>> >   xdpyinfo | grep -i resolution
>> >
>>
>> resolution:    -2147483648x-2147483648 dots per inch
>
> The only solution found at that time was to update/reinstall the X11 server:
>
>> Try this:
>>
>>  http://support.apple.com/downloads/X11_Update_2006_1_1_3
>>
>> Assuming your tiger is fully up to date.
>>
>> When you update to Leopard (or just wait for Snow Leopard) you'll be able
>> to get the newer X11 at http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki
>
> Maybe you can remember changing something in your X11 settings? If not have
> a look for an updated X11 for 10.5.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter.
>



-- 
M.H.D. van der Wiel
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen
& SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
homepage: http://www.astro.rug.nl/~wiel/
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