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Hi Mike, re: > I am building MCIDAS for the first time. Everything seemed to > go OK when I ran the makefile. I set myself up as a user. From an > ubuntu system, I used ssh -X to log onto the host (uila.soest.hawaii.edu) > and typed "mcidas" at the command line. OK so far. I typically use the 'ssh -XY' invocation instead of simply 'ssh -X', but I don't think that this has anything to do with the problem you are experiencing. > Up came a nice MCIDAS GUI window, then something strange > happened. The window started expanding all by itself. It went > beyond the limits of my screen, then it filled with a bunch of > strange colored lines and crashed. This is a race condition that I have seen before, typically when running in the KDE environment on Linux. I can't recall seeing this behavior when running under Gnome on Linux. I think what is happening is that the logic in the gui (MCGUI?) is resizing the gui wrapper around the McIDAS image window. The resize action is being continuously re-activated because of some lag in the communication between the machine you are running on and the machine that is actually running the code. Questions: - did you try running McIDAS in the same way again? I have sometimes found that a subsequent invocation does not exhibit the resizing problem. - have you tried running McIDAS from the system console on uila? - what is the X window manager in effect from the session you are trying to start McIDAS from? (e.g., KDE, Gnome, etc.) > I have attached the makelog. Hope you can help me figure out what is wrong. I believe that the makelog will show nothing that will be helpful. The problem is being caused by a race condition in the logic that resizes the gui wrapping the McIDAS image window. I just took a look through the MCGUI code and do not see an obvious tweak that can be made. Give this, I would appreciate if you would try to start McIDAS in the same way more than once (if you haven't already, that is). Cheers, Tom -- **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: JBI-672651 Department: Support McIDAS Priority: Normal Status: Closed