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>From: "Patrick L. Francis" <address@hidden> >Organization: BGSU >Keywords: 200509012226.j81MQPjo003761 Hi Patrick, >I have rebuilt one of my machines from scratch with the latest >kernel, ldm, and gempak... after reviewing the docs for a >very long time, I seem to have embarassingly missed >something simple... some of the data is writing, some >is not... a sample of verbose output is available here: > >http://weather.bgsu.edu/files/ldmd.txt It looks like the decoders are not executing at all. >it is probably something simple so I apologize, my >eyes are no longer focusing ... I logged onto your machine as 'ldm' and did the following: ldm@XXXXXX:/etc$ cd ~ldm/decoders ldm@XXXXXX:/etc$ ldd dcuair libg2c.so.0 => not found libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x4001b000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x4003e000) libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x40047000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000) Notice that the library 'libg2c.so.0' is not being found. I found this to be true for all GEMPAK decoders you had copied to ~ldm/decoders. This is the cause of the PIPE errors in your ~ldm/logs/ldmd.log file. I see that you are running a version of Linux that has the 2.6 kernel: ldm@XXXXXX:~/decoders$ uname -a Linux XXXXXX 2.6.8 #1 SMP Thu Sep 1 15:40:33 EDT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux I also see this is Debian Linux: ldm@XXXXXX:/etc$ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.8 (root@XXXXXX) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)) #1 SMP Thu Sep 1 15:40:33 EDT 2005 The Linux GEMPAK binary was built on a Fedora Core 3 system here at Unidata. Perhaps you did not install the package that contains libg2c.so when you installed Debian Linux? I would check to see if there is a package that does contain libg2c.so.0 and install it if there is one. Otherwise, you may be forced to attempt a GEMPAK build from source code. Since we do not run Debian Linux here at Unidata, we are not experts on its ins and outs. You might want to contact: Erick Nelson <address@hidden> at the College of DuPage to see what they had to do to get GEMPAK to run under Debian. The other, and perhaps better alternative, is to send an inquiry to the gembud email list that explains that you are trying to get a binary distribution of GEMPAK to work under Debian, but libg2c.so is not being found. Cheers, Tom Yoksas -- NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly 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. >From address@hidden Thu Sep 1 17:20:37 2005 > Notice that the library 'libg2c.so.0' is not being found. thanks ;) ... withi debian's wonderful package management system the answer = aptitude install libg2c0 (or apt-get install) restart, she is running flawlessly! I used to run redhat / fedora etc.. but found debian to be much easier to administer... I'm just not completely familiar with all of the minutia yet. thanks tom... --pat