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David, At some point, your script has exited without clearing the message queue, and the script now finds an existing gplt process or message queue but can't connect. You should be able to clear up your hung gplt processes and remove any stray message queues by running the gempak cleanup script as: cleanup -c You should also use the "/bin/ps" command to search for any remaining device drivers (xw, gf, gif, ps etc) and gplt processes. Use "ipcs" to list your message queues and verify that cleanup has removed all old ones that belong to you. The cleanup script uses the "ipcrm" system command, which you can run manually too. For more information about "ipcs" and "ipcrm", see the GEMPAK tutorial at http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/gempak/tutorial and/or the GEMPAK mail archives. Steve Chiswell >From: "David C Welsh" <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200404231645.i3NGjsCT009347 >I am using gpmap to plot NNEXRAD data. I am running the program in a >cron job script using the restore function to read in a"nts" file. I am >running on Linux This script and gpmap restore combo worked for over a >year. I am getting the follow error messages: > >Error in message send = 22 >itype, ichan, nwords,1,-1,2 >Error in message send = 22 >itype, ichan, nwords,1,-1,1 >Error in message send = 22 >itype, ichan, nwords,1,-1,3 > [GEMPLT -1] NMBRER - Mailbox read. > [GPMAP -3] Fatal error initializing GEMPLT. > >I ran gpmap interactively and received the same error messages. > >What can I do to fix this? Thanks > >David Welsh, NOAA/ETL > -- NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publically available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.