[AWIPS #CBR-963818]: Issue with IR/VIS Sandwich GOES Imagery Loading

Hi there,

> So here’s how today went Thankfully I only use the Centos machine for AWIPS2 
> so 
> after numerous tries this morning, I gave up and wiped it out and installed 
> fresh. I
> couldn’t get the NVIDIA to install and the error messages were no help. For 
> the fresh 
> install, I updated all files, then installed AWIPS, then did the NVIDIA 
> thing.I could not
> for the life of me get it to ignore the nouveau driver even using NVIDIA’s 
> step by step. 
> One site had two extra commands, and that worked. 
> https://www.advancedclustering.com/act_kb/installing-nvidia-drivers-rhel-centos-7/
>  
> I now see winds, METARs, and sandwich satellite! 

Glad to hear you've got CAVE working!  That sounds like quite the process.

> The only issue I have now is that yum no longer works. ‘which python’ gives 
> me 
> /awips2/python/bin/python so I’m guessing that’s somehow interfering with yum 
> since I
> get: [gempak@awips2 ~]$ yumThere was a problem importing one of the Python 
> modules 
> required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:�   No module 
> named yum 
> Please install a package which provides this module, or verify that the 
> module is 
> installed correctly. It's possible that the above module doesn't match the 
> current 
> version of Python, which is:2.7.13 (default, Jul 12 2021, 19:42:57) 
>[GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-28)] Any thoughts on getting that back? 
>Again this
> was a straight fresh install so I did no special configuring of anything 
> (yet) 

If you switch to the root user, then are you able to run yum?
I believe that's how we have to run yum on some of our systems.

Does that work for you?
Thanks.

--Shay Carter

She/Her/Hers
AWIPS Software Engineer
UCAR - Unidata

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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: CBR-963818
Department: Support AWIPS
Priority: Low
Status: Open
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