[yt-users] Terminal disappears while downloading

[Matthew Turk]

Hi Robyn,

This is a puzzle.  My guess is that it's not finding numpy because
numpy is inside a different Python site-packages directory.  It might
be worthwhile to skip all of the install script and try installing all
the dependencies -- specifically, hdf5, numpy, python2.6, matplotlib
-- from apt-get.  Those are the only packages I think you'll need.  If
you're on Ubuntu 9 or higher, I think they should be in the standard
repositories.  If you do succeed with this, and you're up for it, we'd
love to have a PPA we can distribute (
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas ) for this purpose!

Sorry that this is a hassle.

-Matt

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:27 PM,  <dlleuz at xmission.com> wrote:
> Quoting Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi Robyn,
>>
>> That *is* odd.  I've never seen it before with yt, but it kind of
>> reminds me of this old issue of remote windows shutting down if
>> there's something wrong with the Xauth.  When you say the terminal
>> disappears, do you mean that a local xterm disappeared, or that an
>> xterm you opened through an ssh-tunneled X11 disappeared, or something
>> else?  If it's a window opened over ssh+X11, can you try with
>> supplying -Y to the ssh command?
>>
>> Do you have the last couple lines of the yt_install.log file?  Maybe
>> if there's something funny going on with, say, one of the components
>> trying to open a window and getting killed by the X session or
>> something?  Are you installing wxPython?  If so, maybe try after
>> turning that off?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Matt
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 6:58 PM, robyn <dlleuz at xmission.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> This has happened several times on 2 of my machines.  Installing with
>>> the install_ script and it continues for 10-15 minutes, having
>>> downloaded the tars and starting to compile.  Suddenly without any
>>> warning the terminal just vanishes.  When I bring it back up and
>>> restart, installation resumes but vanishes again after a few seconds.
>>> Installation completed fine on my 3rd machine -- within minutes of the
>>> problem on the other 2.  Network connections on my end are okay.  One of
>>> the logs did say something about "failure to retreive" something just
>>> before the terminal vanished.
>>>
>>> -Thanks.
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> Thanks for the suggestions Matt.
>
> The wxPython switch is set to 0, not to install.  Here's the tail of the
> log, sorry it's redundant I spoze from the several times I tried to restart.
>  But I DO have numpy installed via sudo apt-get install python-numpy, so
> it's in the normal directory ( /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/numpy ) as
> well as one I did from source ( /usr/local/...) but that I didn't think that
> path would be searched.
>
> I also already installed gtk+-2.12.12 for wxPython (also separately
> installed), both by hand successfully.  These are in "safe" paths so as not
> to confuse the X11, gdm and gnome stuff throughout.
>
> I had wondered it might be a server problem, momentary glitch...
>
> -rs
>
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