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20020319: 20020308: Problems with gempak installation

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  • Subject: 20020319: 20020308: Problems with gempak installation
  • Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 14:10:11 -0700

Matthew, 

The error InitGempakColorMap seems to indicate that your X display is
not running as an 8 bit, pseudocolor display. Use the xdpyinfo command to
verify this. Or, you are using GNOME instead of KDE, FVWM, or TWM etc.
GNOME is not compatble since it allocates all colors for the system
read-only.

When you run "linuxconfig" to set up the display in Linux, you should select 
the 8 bit (256 color) choice for your monitor. Alternatively, you can
run Linux with multiple X servers, and hot-swap between then using
the 8 bit visual for GEMPAK.

You should always run Garp from the "ntl" launcher bar in GEMPAK since
ntl will set up the shared color map for all the GEMPAK programs.

See other configuration information:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/glimpse/gempak/4898
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/glimpse/gempak/4586

Steve Chiswell



>From: Matthew Norman <address@hidden>
>Organization: N/A
>Keywords: 200203191956.g2JJu7a04017

>>
>Hi, I invoked the csh environment and the Gemenviron worked and added 
>all of the needed environment variables.  However, when I run garp the 
>shell displays the following errors:
>
>Warning: keylist is null
>        Cannot set option menu default button
>Warning: keylist is null
>        Cannot set option menu default button
>Warning: keylist is null
>        Cannot set option menu default button
>Warning: keylist is null
>        Cannot set option menu default button
>InitGempakColorMap:  Can't allocate Graphic colors.
>GarpInitialize:  GempakInit failed
>Main:  Initialization failed.  Exiting
>
>I'm running Red Hat Linux 7.2 (Enigma) with an OS version of 2.4.7-10 
>and an i686  processor
>
>I was hoping you could help me out with what's going wrong when I try to 
>run garp.  thank you very much for your time.
>
>-Matthew Norman
>