On Oct 18, 2005, at 2:09 PM, Sam Drinkard wrote: > I just completed the upgrade of everything, and after a reboot, I > have got some broken software. I am getting error messages from > the NCAR command language that "Specified Workstation is NOT Open. > In addition, a system call to opngks_() could not open > "wrf_mass_plots.ncgm" which is the file it needs to read to produce > the metafile. > > What changed that would cause software to think the workstation is > not open? > > Next question.. is it possible to undo the upgrade, or would I be > better off doing a clean install of system files should this > breakage not be repairable with simplicity? > > Sam > _______________________________________________ > 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