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When I connect to a Mac machine via ssh and run the xmmextractor GUI, I get the following error message: xmac01:Work sastest$ xmmextractorGUI
_RegisterApplication(), FAILED TO establish the default connection to the WindowServer, _CGSDefaultConnection() is NULL.
PasteBoard: Error creating pasteboard: com.apple.pasteboard.clipboard [-4960]
PasteBoard: Error creating pasteboard: com.apple.pasteboard.find [-4960]
Segmentation fault: 11
How can I fix this problem? -- Answer
SAS 16.0.0
After having patched the original SAS 16.0 version, trying to run the Perl task epchain, produces the error message epchain: Command not found
while any other SAS task is found.
How can I fix the problem? -- Answer
After installing SAS 16.0.0 on macOS Sierra (Mac OS X 10.12*), running any SAS task, e.g. epproc, produces the error message dyld: Library not loaded...
How can I fix the problem? -- Answer
Running xmmextractor on Mac OS X 10.11.6 El Capitan, I get the following error message: Can't load '$SAS_DIR/lib/perl5/darwin-2level/auto/XML/LibXML/LibXML.bundle' for module XML::LibXML: dlopen($SAS_DIR/lib/perl5/darwin-2level/auto/XML/LibXML/LibXML.bundle, 1): Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libiconv.2.dylib
Referenced from: $SAS_DIR/lib/perl5/darwin-2level/auto/XML/LibXML/LibXML.bundle
Reason: Incompatible library version: LibXML.bundle requires version 8.0.0 or later,
but libiconv.2.dylib provides version 7.0.0 at /Users/user/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.22.3/lib/5.22.3/darwin-2level/DynaLoader.pm line 197.
at $SAS_DIR/lib/perl5/darwin-2level/XML/LibXML.pm line 156.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at $SAS_DIR/lib/perl5/darwin-2level/XML/LibXML.pm line 156.
Compilation failed in require at $SAS_DIR/lib/perl5/parseXMLConfFile.pl line 5.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at $SAS_DIR/lib/perl5/parseXMLConfFile.pl line 5.
Compilation failed in require at $SAS_DIR/bin/xmmextractor line 206.
How can I fix this problem? -- Answer
After the installation of SAS 16.0.0 on MacOS X Yosemite or El Capitan, SAS initialisation produces the following error message: dyld: Symbol not found: __cg_png_create_info_struct
Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/ImageIO.framework/Versions/A/ImageIO
Expected in: $SAS_DIR/libextra/libPng.dylib
in /System/Library/Frameworks/ImageIO.framework/Versions/A/ImageIO
Trace/BPT trap: 5
How can I fix this problem? -- Answer
SAS 15.0.1
I cannot run SAS on macOS Sierra. What can I do? -- Answer
My observation has been made in EPIC multi-pointing mode, how can I process it correctly ? -- Answer
SAS 15.0.0
Can I use a box region to extract EPIC-pn Timing or Burst mode spectra? -- Answer
I am running the SAS 15.0.0 on a Linux RHEL 6.X machine and xmmextractor is crashing.
How can I fix this problem? -- Answer
When the task emosaic_prep is ran, it gives the following error: Cannot exec "preqgti": No such file or directory at...
How to fix this problem? -- Answer
Why do certain tasks end with a fatal error including: UnknownAlgoId? -- Answer
dyld: Library not loaded... error with SAS installed on Mac OS X El Capitan -- Answer
SAS 14.0.0
Why do certain tasks end with a fatal error: Unsupported AlgoId? -- Answer
Why does phasecalc not give me the correct phase reference epoch? -- Answer
The sourcing of the setsas.csh script to initialise SAS, produces the following error: SAS_PREV_LD_LIBRARY_PATH: Undefined variable. How to fix this problem? -- Answer
In Mac OS X, the execution of some tasks, e.g. epproc, omsource, etc, produces the error: dyld: Library not loaded: /sasbuild/local/xmac01/libpng_1.2.51/lib/libpng12.0.dylib Referenced from: /Users/user/SAS/xmmsas_20141104_1833/lib/libssc.4.28.dylib Reason: image not found Trace/BPT trap
How to fix this problem? -- Answer
When the task emosaic_prep is run, it gives the following error: Cannot exec "preqgti": No such file or directory at.... How to fix this problem? -- Answer
Why epproc/epchain ends with a fatal error: Unsupported ALGOID? -- Answer
SAS 13.5.0
Are the recent CCFs compatible with SAS v13.5 ? -- Answer
What to do if emosaic_prep doesn't split the mosaic data properly? -- Answer
How can OM Fast mode data be processed measuring the background from associated Image mode data? -- Answer
Why are there library conflicts when running Heasoft tools? -- Answer
Why are ESAS routines within SAS needing special calibration files? -- Answer
SAS 13.0.3
Why did the names of the RGS extraction regions change with SAS 13.0? Answer
Missing libpng12.0.dylib when running SAS tasks on MacOSX 10.8.5 (Mountain Lion), 10.7.4 (Lion) and 10.6.8 ("Snow Leopard") 64-bit? -- Answer
SAS 12.0.0
Cannot use epproc with runepnoise = yes? -- Answer
Absolute timing analysis of data taken after 1 July 2012 needs a file update -- Answer
The task xmmextractor does not run in SAS 12.0.0 built on Ubuntu 8.04 and openSUSE 11.2 -- Answer
On Linux Ubuntu, some SAS tasks do not run due to a missing library, libXaw8.so.8 -- Answer
Bug in the effective area generation for PN Burst mode data -- Answer
SAS 11.0.0
Why am I getting a warning "EPN/BUCLOSEDODI (or EPN/TICLOSEDODI) is not a known instrument/filetype combination"? -- Answer
GTI filtering in emosaicproc: GTI parameters (pngtilists, mos1gtilist and mos2gtilist) are not used for any filtering. Is there any workaround for such a problem? -- Answer
Why won't emosaic combine my image masks? -- Answer
When running the SAS 11.0.0 GUI (sas) for Mac OS X Leopard on PowerPC, fonts appear illegible. How to fix the problem? -- Answer
The html documentation available on both, on-line and the public distribution, is missing the links to some well known tasks. For example the links to epproc and emproc are missing in the list of all tasks. However, the pdf documentation distributed publicly includes the specific documents on these tasks. Is there any fix for such a problem? -- Answer
SAS 10.0.0
Why do I get problems ingesting RGS (pipeline) spectra into XSPEC V12.x and how can I solve this? Answers
No labels and tick marks are shown up on plots made from some SAS tasks. What is the problem and how to fix it? -- Answer
I have built HEADAS 6.3 from source code and I am initializing it before SAS. Now when I run any HEADAS command, it fails with the error ...xmmsas_20070708_1801/libextra/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6) . What is the problem and what can I do? -- Answer
Artifacts in XMM-Newton time series analysis? -- Answer
There is no labelling of the axes in the rgsimplot output. Why? -- Answer
Why is the BACKSCAL value wrong in TIMING mode? -- Answer
On-line documentation on rgsproc and rgsregions parameters xpsfincl, xpsfexcl and pdistinc default values differs from their tasks default values. What is correct? -- Answer
On RHEL 4 update 4, omichain (and omfchain) fail to run properly due to a changed version of ghostscript. -- Answer
SAS 6.5.0
I cannot filter on the TIME an RGS event file produced with a former SAS version. What am I doing wrong? -- Answer
Why does "atthkgen" fail due to "time correlation" related problems, working with the MacOS version of SAS? -- Answer
Quadrant in PN with fewer events than expected? ? -- Answer
Is it safe to use SAS 6.5 under a Mac OSX 10.4 (Tiger)? -- Answer
What is about the patch to SAS 6.5? Do I need new calibration files? -- Answer
Why do I get the error "UnsupportedAlgoId" when processing MOS data? -- Answer
Can I use my old scripts in SASv6.5, which include calls to the very much refurbished emproc / epproc? -- Answer
I get a segmentation fault when trying to run rgssuperrmf. Am I doing something wrong? -- Answer
SAS 6.1.0
Why do I get bad MOS spectral fits now using SAS 6.0 and SAS 6.1? -- Answer
Can I use SASv6.1 with any processed event lists? -- Answer
Reprocessing pn data with SASv6.1 yields event lists with less photons than with SASv5.4.1. Am I doing something wrong? -- Answer
