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Fix Strange DS9 Startup Errors

December 19th, 2006 by Marcos

I got a bunch of strange errors in ds9 4.0b10 today.

   Error in startup script: syntax error:
         while executing
      "$ds9(next) bin factor to $bin(factor)"
     (procedure "CreateNameNumberFrame" line 111)
  invoked from within
   "CreateNameNumberFrame "$name$num" $type"
  (procedure "CreateNamedFrame" line 9)
    invoked from within
  "CreateNamedFrame Frame base"
   (procedure "CreateFrame" line 2)
   invoked from within
    "CreateFrame"
         (file "./zvfsmntpt/src/ds9.tcl" line 1480)

The problem? A bad ds9 pref file. I bet you didn’t even know ds9 had a pref file, did you?

Delete .ds9.pref from your home directory and the problem is solved. Thanks to Bill Joye who solved this one for me - I was most baffled earlier today.

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