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Art, Yes, the modification of the OABSFC routines for the new bounds parameters in that program affected the OA_BARN routine that sfcntr is using: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/getfile?file=/content/support/help/MailArchives/gempak/msg04247.html I can send you source of a new binary, whichever you prefer. This is fixed when 5.8.4 is released. Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support >From: "Arthur A. Person" <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200511101934.jAAJYD7s017631 >Hi... > >We're trying to contour raw gfs mos data using sfcntr but get a seg fault. >This quit working when we upgraded to 5.8.3a from 5.7.4 awhile back. Any >ideas? I'm including a log of the script we ran for clues. > > Thanks. > > Art. > >Arthur A. Person >Research Assistant, System Administrator >Penn State Department of Meteorology >email: address@hidden, phone: 814-863-1563 >_________________________________________________________________________ > >source /home/meteo/gempak/NAWIPS/Gemenviron >set CURRENT_MRF=`ls -t /data/ldm/gempak/mos/*00_mosm.gem | head -1` >head -1 >ls --color=tty -t /data/ldm/gempak/mos/2005110400_mosm.gem >/data/ldm/gempak/mos/2005110500_mosm.gem >/data/ldm/gempak/mos/2005110600_mosm.gem >/data/ldm/gempak/mos/2005110700_mosm.gem >/data/ldm/gempak/mos/2005110800_mosm.gem >/data/ldm/gempak/mos/2005110900_mosm.gem >/data/ldm/gempak/mos/2005111000_mosm.gem >sfcntr >Creating process: gplt for queue 1364623364 > AREA Data area DSET > GAREA Graphics area 37.6;-83.7;44.33;-69.4 > SATFIL Satellite image filename(s) > RADFIL Radar image filename(s) > SFPARM Surface parameter list TDYF > DATTIM Date/time 051113/0000 > SFFILE Surface data file /data/ldm/gempak/mos/2005111012_ > mosa.gem > COLORS Color list 1 > MAP Map color/dash/width/filter flag 10 > LATLON Line color/dash/width/label/inc 0 > TITLE Title color/line/title 0.8/-2/AVN MOS Max for Sat 05111 > 2 > CLEAR Clear screen flag NO > PANEL Panel loc/color/dash/width/regn M9 > DEVICE Device|name|x size;y size|color ps|junk.ps|||NP > PROJ Map projection/angles/margins|dr NPS > FILTER Filter data factor NO > TEXT Size/fnt/wdth/brdr/N-rot/just/hw 0.6/2/1/hw > LUTFIL Enhancement lookup table filenam > STNPLT Txtc/txt attr|marker attr|stnfil > CLRBAR Color/ornt/anch/x;y/ln;wd/freq > CNTRPRM Parameter to contour > GAMMA Convergence parameter 0.3 > WEIGHT Barnes Weighting parameter > LINE Line color/type/width 3 > CONTUR subbox/smooth 0 > NPASS Number of barnes passes 2 > CINT contour interval 0 > IMCBAR Color/ornt/anch/x;y/ln;wd/freq|t > Parameters requested: >AREA,GAREA,SATFIL,RADFIL,SFPARM,DATTIM,SFFILE,COLORS, > >MAP,LATLON,TITLE,CLEAR,PANEL,DEVICE,PROJ,FILTER,TEXT,LUTFIL,STNPLT,CLRBAR, > CNTRPRM,GAMMA,WEIGHT,LINE,CONTUR,NPASS,CINT,IMCBAR. > GEMPAK-SFCNTR> GEMPAK-SFCNTR> GEMPAK-SFCNTR> GEMPAK-SFCNTR> >GEMPAK-SFCNTR> GEMPAK-SFCNTR> GEMPAK-SFCNTR> GEMPAK-SFCNTR> GEMPAK-SFCNTR> >GEMPAK-SFCNTR> GEMPAK-SFCNTR> GEMPAK-SFCNTR> GEMPAK-SFCNTR> GEMPAK-SFCNTR> >GEMPAK-SFCNTR> GEMPAK-SFCNTR> GEMPAK-SFCNTR> GEMPAK-SFCNTR> GEMPAK-SFCNTR> >GEMPAK-SFCNTR> GEMPAK-SFCNTR> GEMPAK-SFCNTR> GEMPAK-SFCNTR> GEMPAK-SFCNTR> >GEMPAK-SFCNTR>Creating process: xw for queue 1364656133 > SFMAP PARAMETERS: > > Data area: DSET > Graphics area name: RDG > Valid parameters: TDAF > Parameter colors: 0 > Time: 051111/0000 > File: /data/ldm/gempak/mos/2005111000_mosm.gem > Map: 15/1/1 > Title: 1/-2/Contours of MRF Forecast Temp Anomaly > Device: xw > Projection: NPS > Clear screen: NO > Filter: NO > Filter factor: 0.00 > Panel: 4/1/1/ >Enter <cr> to accept parameters or type EXIT: Using 67x 51 grid. > WEIGHT defaulting to 20. >Segmentation fault >gpend >exit > -- 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.