[Halld-online] broken TCL for hdops

[Hovanes Egiyan]

Somehow this problem is happening again, the TCL_LIBRARY variable is set 
(to old version) for
hdops and other accounts for non-ROC machines. We somehow had a 
temporary fix for that
but I guess it got broken with new CODA setup.

Hovanes.



On 10/24/2014 08:14 PM, Hovanes Egiyan wrote:
> Thanks Dave,
> I changed it to only set these variables for RHEL version 5 as a quick 
> fix, seems to work for now.
> Hopefully noone else uses TCL on ROCs but CODA. Then we can figure out
> how to deal with those variables more properly.
> Hovanes.
>
>
>         set RHEL_VERSION=`awk '/release/{print 
> substr($0,match($0,/[123456789]/),1)}' /etc/redhat-release`
>         if( ${RHEL_VERSION} == '5' ) then
>             setenv TCL_LIBRARY $CODA/common/lib/tcl7.4
>             setenv ITCL_LIBRARY $CODA/common/lib/itcl2.0
>             setenv TK_LIBRARY  $CODA/common/lib/tk
>             setenv ITK_LIBRARY  $CODA/common/lib/itk2.0
>             setenv DP_LIBRARY  $CODA/common/lib/dp
>             setenv TIX_LIBRARY $CODA/common/lib/tix
>             setenv TCLINCLUDE_DIR $CODA/common/include
>             setenv TKINCLUDE_DIR $CODA/common/include
>     endif
>
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> On 10/24/2014 07:53 PM, David Abbott wrote:
>> Hovanes,
>>       The TCL version that the variable TCL_LIBRARY is pointing to is an
>> old version that is part of the CODA release. It is used only by the 
>> CODA ROCs.
>> It only has to be set on the VME CPUs (or any CPU one wants to run a 
>> ROC on).
>>       The ROCs cannot use a newer version as there are some old code and
>> customizations. There are several TCL environment variables that get set
>> as part of an init script probably by default in hdops login shells. 
>> This should
>> probably be changed to only execute on certain types of machines. The 
>> ROCs
>> run on a specific 32bit Linux OS.
>>                    David
>>
>>
>> On Oct 24, 2014, at 7:36 PM, Hovanes Egiyan 
>> <hovanes.egiyan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> There is a problem with TCL on gluon machines. Somehow when I launch
>>> "MyaViewer" to view the
>>> history of EPICS variables  I get error messages shown below and the
>>> program crashes. This program
>>> used to work before, something must have change recently that does not
>>> allow hdops account to run it.
>>> When I "unsetenv TCL_LIBRARY" it works. What is the reason for
>>> installing an older version of TCL and
>>> using it for hdops account as the default version?
>>> Hovanes.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Application initialization failed:
>>> /gluex/coda/3.02/common/lib/tcl7.4/tclIndex isn't a proper Tcl index 
>>> file
>>> Error in startup script: /gluex/coda/3.02/common/lib/tcl7.4/tclIndex
>>> isn't a proper Tcl index file
>>>      while executing
>>> "error "[file join $dir tclIndex] isn't a proper Tcl index file""
>>>      (procedure "auto_load_index" line 35)
>>>      invoked from within
>>> "auto_load_index"
>>>      (procedure "auto_load" line 30)
>>>      invoked from within
>>> "auto_load tixScriptVersion"
>>>      (procedure "__tixInit" line 19)
>>>      invoked from within
>>> "__tixInit"
>>>      invoked from within
>>> "load /usr/csite/certified/tcl/8.4/lib/libtix8.1.8.4.so Tix"
>>>      ("package ifneeded" script)
>>>      invoked from within
>>> "package require Tix"
>>>      (file "/usr/csite/certified/bin/MyaViewer" line 30)
>>>
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