[IDV #FAV-932592]: IDV install

Hi Ben-

Jeff and I have been in and out of town over the past few weeks.  Did
you get anywhere with this?

Don 

> >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
> 
> 
> Don, thanks for the fast reply, here's the info. Permissions
> on the dirs look ok, and if I interpret df -k correctly, I have
> about 3.5 GB remaining under my home:
> 
> 
> (callisto) foster : ls -lg .metapps
> total 1
> drwxrwsr-x  2 tgcm 512 Mar  2 16:10 DefaultIdv/
> (callisto) foster : cd .metapps
> 
> (callisto) .metapps : ls -l
> total 1
> drwxrwsr-x  2 foster tgcm 512 Mar  2 16:10 DefaultIdv/
> (callisto) .metapps : cd DefaultIdv
> 
> (callisto) DefaultIdv : ls -l
> total 0
> -rw-rw-r--  1 foster tgcm 0 Mar  2 16:10 idv.rbi
> (callisto) DefaultIdv :
> 
> 
> 
> (callisto) DefaultIdv : df -k /home/foster
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> jabba:/export/home/foster
> 25557120  21800160   3501376  87% /home/foster
> (callisto) DefaultIdv :
> 
> 
> --Ben
> 
> 
> >
> >
> >Ticket Details
> >===================
> >Ticket ID: FAV-932592
> >Department: Support IDV
> >Priority: Normal
> >Status: Open
> >
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Ben Foster                    High Altitude Observatory (HAO)
> address@hidden                        phone: 303-497-1595  fax: 303-497-1589
> Nat. Center for Atmos. Res.     P.O. Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307 USA
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 


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