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Re: 19909222: problem with gempak5.4 on IRIX 6.5 with alloc of colors

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  • Subject: Re: 19909222: problem with gempak5.4 on IRIX 6.5 with alloc of colors
  • Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 10:31:25 -0700
> Mike,
> 
> We are running 6.5.3 which has many bug fixes from 6.5.
> %uname -R
> 6.5 6.5.3m
I'm running 6.5.2.....

> 
> When running interactively, ntl will allocate the color table
> and ensure that all the programs- even the command line
> programs using dev=xw or gf have access to the shared color table.
> Have you seen the problem after ntl is run?

I didn't try to run ntl after I saw this problem.  I do that when it
happens again.  Right now it is fixed, after rebooting the machine that
was running gempak.  I don't think it is a problem with the server side of
X since we see this problem on different Xserver platforms. (gempak runs
on the IRIX machine, but the image window opens on different
machines/Xservers.  

A related problem is that when a new window is opened and a satellite
image is requested and clear=no, I get:
[GEMPLT -64]  NCBALOC  - Color bank not allocated.

However, the window does open and the raster data is plotted.  If
clear=yes, no problem.  I was using sfmap to do this.  Bug/feature?


> 
> Assuming that the default visual is 8 bit (it must be), you might
> need to see if the revisions to 6.5 significantly patch the X server.
> 
> Steve Chiswell
> 
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Mike Leuthold
Atmospheric Sciences/Institute of Atmospheric Physics
University of Arizona
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