Tony Schreiner wrote:
I'm guessing you are talking about the NCAR graphics system. How was this software installed? It's not any kind of CentOS package that I am aware of (could be wrong though).
I think you need to examine the error returns of your function calls more closely. In GKS, a workstation is a general term for a graphics device, and in your case, it looks like the metafile is the graphics device. You need to find out why it is unable to open the file.
Tony _______________________________________________
You are correct Tony, it's the ncar graphics. The sofware was built and installed by me, in the normal (recommended) location, /usr/local/ncarg and the companion language, ncl in /usr/local/ncl. All things worked before the upgrade, so apparently some permissions got changed somewhere along the way. In addition to the workstation not opening, there is an error allocating colors, and setting foreground with undefined results. It appears to be X related, but not positive. There is also an error reported by libhlu.a (Error.o) which is the high level utilities from NCL. Again, it appears on the outset to be permissions since root will open the files normally and execute the script. I just don't see anywhere right off that has had permissions changed from what they were, at least not in any of the /usr/local/* directories.