20000201: lingering y2k issues

Mike,

The problem appears to be the -g flag in the dcgrib actions.
This points to /gemtbl in your pqact.conf, but that directory 
doesn't exist. This might have been a link at one time since
I recall you had a really long path name that exceeded the line
length.

The idea is to define the GEMTBL directory using the -g flag so that
the decoder can find all those tables under $GEMTBL/grid, so probably
-g /export/meaculpa/nawips/gempak5.4/tables would work, or create
your link from /export/meaculpa/nawips/gempak5.4/tables to /gemtbl.

This also appears in the -s and -p options in the dchrly and other decoders.
So either you made the link previously to save the typing- or you
needed it to save a line length problem. At any rate, the quickest solution
is to reinstate the link that someone removed- but you might want to
jest put that whole path in the pqact.conf entries.

Steve






On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Mike Trexler wrote:

> Steve,
> 
> Thanks for the advice on compiling nawips.  I'm sure that you would have
> no trouble believing that we were running SC3.0.x on the unity machines.
> But, we now have access to the new compilers so everything look like
> it'll work out.
> 
> New question....Suddenly all the gempak products stopped writing to the
> right place and I can't figure out why.  I read the dcgrib.log which indicated
> that it couldn't write to the right place.  So, then I changed the pqact file
> to explicitly define GEMHDS, but still got the same results.  Here's what
> the log says:
> 
> Feb 01 22:38:32 dcgrib[9787]: Starting Up
> Feb 01 22:38:32 dcgrib[9787]:  Error creating file:
> -1/newdata/gempak/realtime/00020118_meso21
> Feb 01 22:38:32 dcgrib[9787]: can't open file
> /newdata/gempak/Realtime/00020118_meso212.gem
> Feb 01 22:38:32 dcgrib[9787]: Exiting
> Feb 01 22:38:32 dcgrib[9787]: 1 WMO msgs, 1 GRIBs decoded, 0 written
> Feb 01 22:38:33 dcgrib[9788]: Starting Up
> Feb 01 22:38:33 dcgrib[9788]:  Error creating file:
> -1/newdata/gempak/realtime/00020118_meso21
> Feb 01 22:38:33 dcgrib[9788]: can't open file
> /newdata/gempak/Realtime/00020118_meso212.gem
> 
> I also checked to make sure all the permissions on the directory were correct 
> and
> nothing had changed.  Any ideas?
> 
> Also this is not just happening with the model data, but also with the 
> surface and
> upperair
> files.  What's funny though is that there are no entries in the log files for 
> the past
> 2 days at all, but I know that the data is coming in because the text 
> products (and grib
> 
> model datasets) are being written fine.  Can't understand what's up andwhy it 
> suddenly
> started  happening!?!?!?
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Steve Chiswell wrote:
> 
> > Mike,
> >
> > Was the distribution on the 2.5.1 system compiled from scratch on that 
> > platform,
> > or was it copied over from the 2.7 system?
> >
> > What version of the C & fortrans compilers are the 2 systems running?
> > We are running SC5.0 here.
> >
> > It could be that the motif interface library was modified between the 2
> > Solaris releases. The oldest system we have here is 2.6.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Mike Trexler wrote:
> >
> > > Hey Steve,
> > >
> > > Hope you had a good trip.  I downloaded the latest gempak distrib (through
> > > patch 15) and installed it on a couple of Suns running Solaris 2.7.  
> > > Everything
> > > seems to work nicely in all respects.  Now I also installed this same 
> > > distribution
> > > on a Sun running Solaris 2.5.1.  I was less sucessful here.  The problem 
> > > is with
> > > Garp.  At first you think everything is ok, because it starts up fine and 
> > > you can
> > > plot surface data, nids/nowrad/satellite data all fine.  The models part  
> > > is where
> > > things get weird.  Garp will crash and shut down if you open up any of 
> > > the model
> > > related widgets (cross sections, plan proj, profs...) after having 
> > > already open one
> > > of these widgets once.  Like say I looked at eta 500mb hghts and pressed
> > > "display and close", then when I open up the plan proj widget the next 
> > > time it
> > > will crash.  However, if you put up the 500mb hghts and choose "display" 
> > > rather
> > > than also closing the window you can add as many other things and clear as
> > > many times as you like, so long as you never close the first window.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Mike
> > >
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