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Eric, Here is the discussion from another user on a CentOS machine, with a description of the solution (which, I should warn, has been shown to work but we don't exactly know how!) > First I have to ask the simple question if Gemenviron is sourced correctly, > but I assume that it is. > > I will need to see a decoder logs that contains the error message. We have > seen problems like this in the past that for an unknown reason were resolved > with an ipv6 tweak, but that was on red hat systems. Attach a log back and > I'll take a look. > > Michael James > Unidata > > > > > Hello, > > > > I've run into a problem with 5.11.4 where the decoders will not write > > files into $GEMDATA. If I wipe out the directory structure, the progs > > will create all of the proper subdirectories, but they will not be > > populated with data. In the various log files, all the apps complain > > about not being able to write to files. I've double checked the write > > permissions on the directories and ldm has write permissions (gempak was > > built under the ldm account, no gempak user.) > > > > My system is a debian linux ver 5.0.3 > > > > Linux blackhawk 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem #1 SMP Wed Nov 4 21:12:12 UTC 2009 > > i686 GNU/Linux > > > > There were no serious errors in the make or make_install logs that I could > > tell. > > > > Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks. > > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > Eric Nelson > > > > National Center for Atmospheric Research > > Research Applications Laboratory > > http://www.ral.ucar.edu > > address@hidden > > (303) 497-2838 > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: DPN-938735 Department: Support GEMPAK Priority: Normal Status: Open