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Re: IDLDE linux cannot create workspace [message #78300 is a reply to message #78299]

Fri, 04 November 2011 11:48

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Jeremy Bailin writes:

>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I never use the DE, so I have never encountered this, but one of my
> students is trying to run it for IDL 8.0 on a Linux box (I think it's
> RHEL, not sure what version) and we keep getting the following error on
> startup:
>
> Workspace in use or cannot be created, choose a different one.
>
> It is not actually in use - if you give it a completely new directory,
> it will pause for a minute and then give the same error ad infinitum.
>
> Command line works fine:
>
> IDL> print, !version
> { x86_64 linux unix linux 8.0 Jun 18 2010 64 64}
>
>
> Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.

Have you tried deleting the workbench config and preferences
folders in the .idl/itt directory? Couldn't hurt, as long as
you are willing to start over.

I'm not sure where you find these on LINIX. Probably in
your ~/name directory.

Cheers,

David

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		Re: IDLDE linux cannot create workspace By: Jeremy Bailin on Sat, 05 November 2011 21:26
		Re: IDLDE linux cannot create workspace By: Brian Wolven on Fri, 04 November 2011 13:37
		Re: IDLDE linux cannot create workspace By: David Fanning on Fri, 04 November 2011 13:30
		Re: IDLDE linux cannot create workspace By: Jeremy Bailin on Fri, 04 November 2011 13:05
		Re: IDLDE linux cannot create workspace By: Jeremy Bailin on Fri, 04 November 2011 13:03
		Re: IDLDE linux cannot create workspace By: Brian Wolven on Fri, 04 November 2011 12:20
		Re: IDLDE linux cannot create workspace By: David Fanning on Fri, 04 November 2011 11:48

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