[gradsusr] display problem with v.2.1.a3

[Jennifer Adams]

On Apr 30, 2015, at 10:41 AM, Semyon Grodsky <senya at atmos.umd.edu> wrote:

> Dear experts,
> 
> after updating LINUX to RedHat Enterprise 7, grads v 2.1.a3 starts failing 
> to display plots properly. In particular, 2.1.a3 is failing to plot 
> contours (merely plotting contour labels).
This is probably a symptom of an X11 problem. Are you using COLA’s pre-compiled build on RHEL7, or did you build your own executable from source? 

> 
> It seems that this problem is machine dependent and is probably associated 
> with the Cairo rendering in X11. If I log into the same machine, but from 
> windows laptop (XMing), grads works fine.
What is the non-windows system you are using to login to the linux system that fails to render the graphics properly? If it is a mac, what does it say about versions in the ‘About X11’ pop up window? What version of OS X is running? 

> 
> Is there any cure for that?
It is probably going to require a new X11 release, something over which I have no control. I will need more information before submitting a bug report, however. 

OS upgrades are always full of unexpected complications!  :-(

—Jennifer


> 
> Thanks,
> --Senya
> ------------
>  q config
> Config: v2.1.a3 little-endian readline grib2 netcdf hdf4-sds hdf5 
> opendap-grids,stn geotiff shapefile cairo
> Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) Version 2.1.a3
> Copyright (C) 1988-2015 by the Institute for Global Environment and 
> Society (IGES)
> This program is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY
> See file COPYRIGHT for more information.
> 
> Built Tue Mar 10 12:20:42 EDT 2015 for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> 
> This version of GrADS has been configured with the following options:
>   o Built on a LITTLE ENDIAN machine
>   o Athena Widget GUI DISABLED
>   o Command line editing ENABLED
>       http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html
>   o GRIB2 interface ENABLED
>       http://www.ijg.org
>       http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams/jasper
>       http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/codes/GRIB2
>       g2clib-1.4.0
>   o NetCDF interface ENABLED
>       http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf
>       netcdf 4.3.3 of Mar 10 2015 11:30:12 $
>   o OPeNDAP gridded data interface ENABLED
>   o OPeNDAP station data interface ENABLED
>       http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/supplibs.html
>       libgadap 2.0
>   o HDF4 and HDF5 interfaces ENABLED
>       http://hdfgroup.org
>       HDF 4.2r3
>       HDF5 1.8.12
>   o GeoTIFF and KML/TIFF output ENABLED
>       http://www.libtiff.org
>       http://geotiff.osgeo.org
>   o KML contour output ENABLED
>   o Shapefile interface ENABLED
>       http://shapelib.maptools.org
>   o Cairo graphics interface ENABLED
>       http://cairographics.org
>       http://cgit.freedesktop.org/pixman
>       http://www.freetype.org/index2.html
>       http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fontconfig
>       Cairo 1.12.16
>       Pixman 0.28.0
>       Freetype 2.4.10
>       Fontconfig 2.9.0
> 
> For additional information please consult http://iges.org/grads
> 
> 
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Semyon Grodsky
> Computer and Space Science Building (Bldg. #224), Room 2409
> Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
> University of Maryland
> College Park, MD 20742
> 
> Phone:  301-405-5330
> Fax:    301-314-9482
> E-mail: senya at atmos.umd.edu
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Jennifer M. Adams
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