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Hi David, This has been a known GARP bug for some time now, and while I'm looking into it and hope to have a solution for you soon, GARP essentially is unsupported software and we warn our users to use at their own risk. However, as long as bug fixes are relatively simply and don't consume much of my time, I make an effort to fix GARP as needed. I will update you soon. Michael James Unidata > Having a problem with Garp crashing with a segmentation fault when the auto > update feature tries to add a new image to a loop. The crash only happens > when a new image is actually available to add to the loop. For example if > looping a product that comes in every 30 minutes, and auto update is set to > update every 5 minutes, Garp will crash only when the new image is available, > and not after 5 minutes. > > I am running Gempak 6.2.0, on Scientific Linux 5.5 (kernel 2.6.18-194.32.1) > 64 bit. > > 'Garp -verbose 9 ' does not show any error messages, before the crash. Any > ideas on what the problem is, or how to go about debugging it more? > > Thanks for your help! > > Dave > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++ > David Fitzgerald > Department of Earth Sciences > Millersville University > Millersville, PA 17551 > > Phone: 717-871-2394 > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: BPV-965981 Department: Support GEMPAK Priority: High Status: Open