Re: NCL Error message

Sorry to keep bothering you Rick! I appreciate that you've answered so many questions in our absence.

This one is probably because his DISPLAY environment variable is not set, or is set incorrectly.

--Mary

On Apr 28, 2011, at 12:46 AM, Rick Brownrigg wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It sounds like for whatever reason, the X11 environment is not able to start up. Is it installed? (check Applications/Utilities folder). If so, can you launch it? Are you able to run with some other workstation type, such as "ps", "pdf", "png"?
>
> Rick
>
> On Apr 27, 2011, at 8:40 AM, Idowu, Oluseun S. (UMKC-Student) wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I have just installed NCL version 6.0.0-beta on my Mac system but when trying to practice some example plotting I have the following error message. Your quick help will be appreciated.
>>
>> [KC-GSCI-W80392Z1AGZ:~/PhD/WRFV3] oluseunidowu% ncl
>> Copyright (C) 1995-2011 - All Rights Reserved
>> University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
>> NCAR Command Language Version 6.0.0-beta
>> The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
>> See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
>> ncl 0> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl"
>> ncl 1> x = new(9, float)
>> ncl 2> y = new(9, float)
>> ncl 3> x = (/10.,20.,30.,40.,50.,60.,70.,80.,90./)
>> ncl 4> y = (/0.,0.71,1.,0.7,0.002,-0.71,-1.,-0.71,-0.003/)
>> ncl 5> wks = gsn_open_wks("x11", "gsun01n")
>> 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
>> ncl 6>
>>
>> Thanks
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