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>From: "Alliss, Randall J." <address@hidden> >Organization: Northrop Grumman >Keywords: 200402252120.i1PLK0rV026848 McIDAS FrameN.M Randy, > i have been running mcidas, without incident, on a linux box for the last >few weeks. >Something has happened. No matter what account i use on this machine the >graphics for frames 9-19 are gone therefore anything i load in the frames is >not visible (imagery or maps etc). my .mcidasrc file has -f 64. Frames 1-8 >and 20-64 are ok. > >any clues? This sounds like the FrameN.M (e.g., Frame9.0, etc.) files have been created in a directory in your MCPATH by someone other than yourself so you don't have write permission to them. I see this happen most often for C-shell users when the McIDAS environment variable definitions for the user 'mcidas' are not correct/complete. To check my guess, run the following command in your McIDAS session that is having the problem: DMAP Frame If you see FrameN.M files that are NOT in a temporary directory that is at the end of your MCPATH, and you do not have write permission for them, you will have found the problem. The solution is to become whoever owns the errantly placed FrameN.M files and remove them. Then, correct the environment variable settings for that user so the situation does not reoccur. If this is not the problem, we will need more information about the environment on your machine when you see the problems. One thing to look for would be logs of old subdirectories of your ~/.mctmp directory. Associated with these might be interprocess communication segments that have not been released back to the OS. You can use the 'ipcrm' command in Unix to remove the offending, old segments, and use rm to remove the directories under .mctmp. Cheers, Tom -- NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publically available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us. >From address@hidden Wed Feb 25 14:48:23 2004 Randy - This is a long shot, but try running these two McIDAS commands: DMAP Frame (should list one for every frame) DMAP *.001 (should at least be FRAMENH.001 and TERMCHAR.001) The files listed should all be located in the .mctmp directory created at the start of the McIDAS session. - Becky