Fix Strange DS9 Startup Errors
December 19th, 2006 by admin
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.
