20000428: 20000223: gf driver

Chris,
Its possible that the patches made the X libraries incompatible with
the running binaries, or that the configuration of the machine was changed.

I'll take a look around if you send me a login.

Steve Chiswell

>From: address@hidden (Chris Hennon)
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200004281202.e3SC2GG07749

>Steve -
>
>Sorry to keep harassing you about this, but I am still having problems
>with my gempak routines core dumping when I try to write gifs.  There are
>no dead message queues, no rogue gplt processes, and the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>is properly set.  When I was having this problem before I got the latest
>Solaris patches and that seemed to solve the problem.  But, I rebooted the
>other day and now I'm having the same old problem with the SIGBUS errors
>and so forth.  Would it be possible for you to get on my system and see if
>you can find anything?  This problem has been occurring ever since I
>installed pl15 on my machine.  Please let me know what you think.  Thanks.
>
>Chris
>
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>On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Unidata Support wrote:
>
>> 
>> Chris,
>> 
>> I would suggest checking to make sure you didn't reboot into
>> a 24bit X configuration using the xdpyinfo command after making
>> sure that no message queues are hanging around. You might also check that yo
> ur
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set- some environmental variables may have been changed.
>> 
>> Steve Chiswell
>> Unidata User Support
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> >From: address@hidden (Chris Hennon)
>> >Organization: .
>> >Keywords: 200002232021.NAA23701
>> 
>> >Steve -
>> >
>> >Today I rebooted my machine and now my gf driver is hosed again.  Same
>> >symptoms as before, until you copied your gf driver executable into mine.
>> >I don't know what to make of this.  Please advise.  Thanks.
>> >
>> >Chris 
>> >
>> >================================================
>> >| Chris Hennon             Ohio State University   |
>> >| Tropical Meteorology      address@hidden   |
>> >|                                              |
>> >| Dept of Geography   Office: 1155 Derby Hall  |
>> >| 1036 Derby Hall     Phone : (614) 292-2704   |
>> >| Columbus, OH 43210  Fax   : (614) 292-6213   |
>> >================================================
>> >
>> >On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Unidata Support wrote:
>> >
>> >> 
>> >> Chris,
>> >> 
>> >> I rebuilt the distribution, but get the same results when trying to
>> >> set the display to shear:0. Sending to my machine here works ok.
>> >> 
>> >> I copied over my solaris executable of $GEMEXE/gf (moved the one built
>> >> on your machine to $GEMEXE/gf.old. All appears to work fine using
>> >> or copy. You will want to verify this on your own of course.
>> >> 
>> >> At this point, this result would lead me to beleive there is something
>> >> in the X server that has either been patched or updated along the way.
>> >> I will need to look at the library calls used by gf and see if any
>> >> patches have been issued along the way. 
>> >> 
>> >> I also noticed that your ~ldm/decoders directory still has old versions o
> f
>> >> the dc executables in there (from last August, so you will probably want 
> to
>> >> make sure you are running updated version of the decoders).
>> >> 
>> >> Steve Chiswell
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