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> Hi, > > I've been having trouble with sfcntr segfaulting. I'm probably doing > something very wrong, so if you could let me off the hook :) Attached is > a gempak surface file and script that I am using. It seems to segfault on > every combination of GEMPAK + OS I have around here. So I suspect its > something simple in the script. > > Its interesting that on my X86_64 system, this is then logged to syslog > > sfcntr[22472]: segfault at 0000000000000080 rip 000000000041a04f rsp > 0000007fbfff4c10 error 6 > > I'm using the binary GEMPAK 5.10.2 x86_64 on RHEL4 > > thanks! > daryl > Daryl, This ones on me! They added parameters to a few library calling sequences for the number of digits in a contour label, and to avoid small contours, so my code needed to be updated to match the new library calls. I've posted new binaries for linux and linux 64: www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/gempak/nawips-5.10.2/binary/linux/sfcntr www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/gempak/nawips-5.10.2/binary/linux64/sfcntr Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: FPB-814614 Department: Support GEMPAK Priority: Normal Status: Closed