[GEMPAK #QYV-528693]: Trying to decode GEM feed

Hi Samuel,

re:
> We're still weren't filing anything as of this afternoon, so I decided to just
> simply file the data(instead of decoding) using the following lines in 
> pqact.gempak:
> 
> CMC     
> CMC_reg_.*_.*_.*_(.*)_([12][0-9][0-9][0-9])([0-1][0-9])([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])_(P.*).grib
>       FILE    data/cmc/\2\3\4\5_\6.\1
> 
> This produced no files, and didn't even report an error in ldmd.log.
> 
> Now I'm REALLY lost.

When I saw your message this morning I checked to see if you were receiving GEM 
data.
I did this by looking at the statistics being reported back to us by 
shu.cup.edu:

GEM volume:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/rtstats/iddstats_vol_nc?GEM+shu.cup.edu

When I checked, you had not received any GEM data since about 17 UTC on March
29.  The current volume plot shows that you did receive data today at approx.
17 and 23 UTC.

Question:

Does your report of not being able to FILE the GEM (CMC) products fall in the
period when you were not receiving any GEM data, or does it relate to the
period(s) today when you were receiving the data?

Also, I just logged onto shu.cup.edu and do not see a pqact instance running
on etc/pqact.gempak:

[ldm@shu logs]$ ps -eaf | grep pqact
ldm      28562 27182  0 18:06 pts/2    00:00:00 vim pqact.gempak
ldm      15637 15634  2 19:06 ?        00:00:14 pqact -f IDS|DDPLUS 
etc/pqact.conf_mcidasA
ldm      15638 15634  2 19:06 ?        00:00:13 pqact -f NIMAGE 
etc/pqact.conf_nimage
ldm      15639 15634  2 19:06 ?        00:00:13 pqact -f FSL2|NLDN|UNIWISC 
etc/pqact.conf_mcidasB
ldm      15640 15634  2 19:06 ?        00:00:12 pqact -f CONDUIT|HRS|NGRID 
etc/pqact.conf_mcidasC
ldm      15641 15634  2 19:06 ?        00:00:13 pqact -f NNEXRAD 
etc/pqact.conf_nnexrad
ldm      15642 15634  2 19:06 ?        00:00:13 pqact -f NEXRAD2 
etc/pqact.conf_nexrad2
ldm      16253 15184  0 19:15 pts/4    00:00:00 grep pqact

A quick check in the LDM log file, ~ldm/logs/ldmd.log, shows that the pqact 
instance
that was supposed to use pqact.gempak exited:

Mar 31 23:06:06 shu pqact[15643] NOTE: Starting Up 
 ...
Mar 31 23:06:06 shu pqact[15643] ERROR: Unknown action "FILE    
data/cmc/\2\3\4\5_\6.\1" at line 35 
 ...
Mar 31 23:06:07 shu pqact[15643] ERROR: Error in configuration-file 
"etc/pqact.gempak" 
 ...
Mar 31 23:06:08 shu pqact[15643] NOTE: Exiting 
 ...
Mar 31 23:06:08 shu rpc.ldmd[15634] NOTE: child 15643 exited with status 1: 
pqact -f GEM|CMC etc/pqact.gempak 

When I went to edit pqact.gempak, I noticed that it was already being edited:

[ldm@shu ldm]$ ps -eaf | grep vi
ldm      28562 27182  0 18:06 pts/2    00:00:00 vim pqact.gempak

I killed this vi invocation:

[ldm@shu ldm]$ kill 28562

and then edited the file to look for weirdness.  I found that the whitespace 
after
FILE was spaces and not a tab.  I corrected the error and then restarted the 
LDM.

The GEM (aka CMC) data products should now be FILEd.

As far as why the GEMPAK decoding action using dcgrib2 wasn't working, I ran 
into
something that I don't yet understand:

[ldm@shu ldm]$ ldd decoders/dcgrib2
        not a dynamic executable
[ldm@shu ldm]$ ls -alt decoders/dcgrib2
-rwxr-xr-x    1 ldm      ldm        551932 Mar 21 16:43 decoders/dcgrib2
[ldm@shu ldm]$ file decoders/dcgrib2
decoders/dcgrib2: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for 
GNU/Linux 2.6.9, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

The output from ldd that says that ~ldm/decoders/dcgrib2 is not a dynamic 
executable
is indirect contradiction to the 'file decoders/dcgrib2' output.  I am 
scratching my
head on this one at the moment.  I will write back when I figure it out.

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: QYV-528693
Department: Support GEMPAK
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed