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[IDV #FAV-932592]: IDV install

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  • Subject: [IDV #FAV-932592]: IDV install
  • Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:35:13 -0700
Hi Ben-


> I installed IDV on one of our Linux systems using install-anywhere.
> It installed without error, but when I attempted to run it by
> executing runIDV, I got the following error message:
> 
> (callisto) IDV_1.3B1 : runIDV
> Failed to make directory /home/foster/.metapps/DefaultIdv/plugins
> Failed to make directory /home/foster/.metapps/DefaultIdv/extensions
> Failed to make directory /home/foster/.metapps/DefaultIdv/datacache
> Failed to make directory /home/foster/.metapps/DefaultIdv/tmp
> Failed to make directory /home/foster/.metapps/DefaultIdv/tmp/nj22
> Failed to make directory /home/foster/.metapps/jython
> *sys-package-mgr*: can't create package cache dir,
> '/home/foster/.metapps/jython/cachedir/packages'
> Failed to make directory /home/foster/.metapps/DefaultIdv/tmp
> ERROR: An error has occurred:
> Initializing the IDV
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> at
> ucar.unidata.xml.XmlObjectStore.cleanupTmpDirectory(XmlObjectStore.java:195)
> at
> ucar.unidata.xml.XmlObjectStore.cleanupTmpDirectory(XmlObjectStore.java:182)
> at
> ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.initInner(IntegratedDataViewer.java:404)
> at
> ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer$2.run(IntegratedDataViewer.java:353)
> at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$2.run(Misc.java:806)
> 
> 
> 
> The system uname -a for callisto is as follows:
> 
> Linux callisto 2.6.12-1.1381_FC3 #1 Fri Oct 21 03:46:55 EDT 2005 i686
> i686 i386
> GNU/Linux
> 
> Since I don't have root, I installed on a local disk that I own
> (not under my home).
> 
> It did make the directory /home/foster/.metapps/DefaultIdv, but the
> only file in it is idv.rbi and it is an empty file. I have no idea
> why it could not make subdirs under ~/.metapps/DefaultIdv. Can you help?
> Thanks,

I'm stumped on this one.  I would say it's either a permission problem
or a disk space problem.  Since it created the .metapps/DefaultIdv
directory, it should have been able to create the subdirectories (which
are empty).  The idv.rbi file should be more than an empty file.

Can you do:

cd /home/foster
ls -lg .metapps
cd .metapps
ls -l
cd DefaultIdv
ls -l

and send the output to me.  Also, could you check to make sure there's
enough disk space on /home/foster?

Thanks.

Don


Ticket Details
===================
Ticket ID: FAV-932592
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Open