RE: [ferret_users] problem with X-Windows

Hi Ansley,

Thank you for your reply. Display is set: DISPLAY=:1072.0 which seems odd, but this runs over NX on a HPC server.

Things like xclock and gv come up fine.

I will have a look in the archives.

If anybody else has an idea... Problem is that this could also be kind of peculiar to the current setup of our HPC server and the NX connection, sigh.

Thank you,

Best wishes,

Joerg

From: owner-ferret_users@xxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-ferret_users@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ansley C. Manke
Sent: 10 April 2017 19:21
To: ferret_users@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ferret_users] problem with X-Windows

Hi Joerg,

Is your DISPLAY environment variable set? Are you perhaps running Ferret on a machine other than your desktop machine? If so you'll need to make sure that the display forwarding is set up correctly. A test for this is whether a Unix command such as xclock works. This issue does comes up from time to time; search for "display" in the Users List Archives for a few more discussions.

Another option might be for you to use PyFerret.

Ansley

On 4/10/2017 8:37 AM, Kaduk, Jorg D. (Dr.) wrote:

Hello,

Sorry, I know, this is not a ferret topic, but maybe somebody came across this.

Ferret cannot open a window for the plot. It dies with an X Error (please see below).

A “ferret –batch picture.gif” produces an empty gif file.

A “ferret –batch” produces a metafile that I can convert to postscript, which I can look at in gv and can convert to jpeg with gs.

Anybody seen anything like that before?

Thank you!

Best,

Joerg

[jk61@spectre11 jk61]$ ferret

        NOAA/PMEL TMAP

        FERRET v7 (opt)

        Linux 3.10.0-327.36.3.el7.x86_64 64-bit - 01/17/17

        10-Apr-17 16:27

yes? use Rainfall.nc

           *** NOTE: Axis coordinates are decreasing-ordered. Reversing ordering for axis lat

           *** NOTE: Coordinates out of order or missing on axis lon at subscript 35

           *** NOTE: A dummy axis of subscripts will be used

yes?   shade PRECIP[l=1]

X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)

Major opcode of failed request: 12 (X_ConfigureWindow)

Value in failed request: 0x0

Serial number of failed request: 52

Current serial number in output stream: 53

[jk61@spectre11 jk61]$ ls -al R*

-rwx------ 1 jk61 nobody 3053516 Nov 13 2013 Rainfall.nc

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