[ncl-install] NCL Installation Test Error

[Mary Haley]

Hi Arghya,

I think I missed your message.

What do you have your DISPLAY environment variable set to?

    printenv DISPLAY

We usually recommend:

     setenv DISPLAY :0.0

or

     export DISPLAY=:0.0

--Mary

On Mar 24, 2010, at 5:35 PM, Arghya Goswami wrote:

> Hi I am a graduate student at UTA and having this error as I am  
> trying to test the NCL installation. I have used the default  
> settings as directed in the help.
>
> As I type,
>
> ng4ex gsun01n
>
> I get the following error:
>
> NCAR Graphics NCL Example <gsun01n>
>
>
> This example was set up to display the output to an
> X11 window.
>
>   Copying gsun01n.ncl
>
> Running NCL...
>  Copyright (C) 1995-2009 - All Rights Reserved
>  University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
>  NCAR Command Language Version 5.1.1
>  The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
>  See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
> warning:GKS:GOPWK: --X driver error: error opening display
>
> warning:GKS:GESC: --SPECIFIED WORKSTATION IS NOT OPEN
>
> fatal:Workstation with PID#8 is not open
>
> fatal:Unable to open Workstation-Can't Create
>
> fatal:Unable to access object with id:-4
>
> fatal:_NhlCreate:Invalid Parent id #-4
>
> fatal:NhlGetValues:PID #-4 is invalid
>
> fatal:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 9810 in file  
> $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclex/
> gsun/gsn_code.ncl
>
>
> fatal:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 11
>
>
> Finished running 'ncl < gsun01n'...
>
>
> Please help me with this.
>
> Arghya Goswami
> Graduate Teaching Assistant
> Dept of EES,University of Texas at Arlington,
> 500 Yates Street, Arlington, Texas - 76010.
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