plugout_drive broken connection: iochan_goodcheck: no longer alive

Dear developers and advanced users,
I’m using Precompiled binary linux_openmp_64: Mar 7 2018 AFNI_18.0.25 in CentOS 6.9, bash shell and I get the following problem trying to use afni-suma talk using the following steps from page: https://afni.nimh.nih.gov/pub/dist/doc/htmldoc/tutorials/fatcat_prep/Postprocessing_II.html
in detail:

port for AFNI-SUMA communications, and end all other chatter on it

export cport = 12
@Quiet_Talkers -npb_val $cport

set line thickness of SUMA surfaces sent to AFNI:

export AFNI_SUMA_LINESIZE 0.005

Open talkable AFNI

afni -npb $cport -niml -yesplugouts &

Choose ulay (anat) and olay (FA>0.2) in AFNI

plugout_drive
-npb $cport
-com ‘SWITCH_UNDERLAY imit2w.nii’
-com ‘SWITCH_OVERLAY dt_FA.nii.gz’
-com “SEE_OVERLAY +”
-com “SET_PBAR_ALL +99 1.0 Plasma”
-com ‘SET_THRESHNEW 0.2’
-v
-quit
++ AFNI control channel tcp:localhost:1321 created
++ AFNI control channel connected
++ Sending control information to AFNI
PONAME plugout_drive
IOCHAN tcp:localhost:1328
PO: plugout connection from host 127.0.0.1 (tcp:*:1321)
++ AFNI data channel created
++ AFNI data channel is open
Command String 0 Echo: ‘DRIVE_AFNI SWITCH_UNDERLAY imit2w.nii’
PO: plugout connection name is plugout_drive
++ AFNI response string: OK!
Command String 1 Echo: ‘DRIVE_AFNI SWITCH_OVERLAY dt_FA.nii.gz’
++ AFNI response string: OK!
Command String 2 Echo: ‘DRIVE_AFNI SEE_OVERLAY +’
++ AFNI response string: OK!
Command String 3 Echo: ‘DRIVE_AFNI SET_PBAR_ALL +99 1.0 Plasma’
++ AFNI response string: OK!
Command String 4 Echo: ‘DRIVE_AFNI SET_THRESHNEW 0.2’
++ AFNI response string: OK!
Command String 5 Echo: ‘DRIVE_AFNI SWITCH_OVERLAY dt_FA.nii.gz’
++ AFNI response string: OK!
Command String 6 Echo: ‘DRIVE_AFNI SEE_OVERLAY +’
++ AFNI response string: OK!
Command String 7 Echo: ‘DRIVE_AFNI SET_PBAR_ALL +99 1.0 Plasma’
++ AFNI response string: OK!
Command String 8 Echo: ‘DRIVE_AFNI SET_THRESHNEW 0.2’
++ AFNI response string: OK!
[gc@lugh gc_DIFFPREP11]$ PO: plugout ‘plugout_drive’ has broken connection!
: iochan_goodcheck: no longer alive

apparently the AFNI output is fine but the connection is broken.
Any suggestion?
Cheers,
Giuseppe

That’s a normal message. Anytime before quitting from plugout_drive, you can tell AFNI not to complain about any impending separation with
plugout_drive … -com QUIET_PLUGOUTS -quit