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Before I play around with the LDM too much on your system, can you help me understand why you're not scouring any data? Your home partition is 96% full, though you still have 25 GB available, so space shouldn't be an issue. here Still, I've run out of ideas, nothing stands out as the cause of these I/O errors and the "*.gema" files. Might be a good time to upgrade the LDM from your current version 6.7.0 to the latest stable release (6.9.8): ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/ldm/ldm-6.9.8.tar.gz Michael > Hello Michael, > > Yesterday september 01 there was again the mistake, > File /data/ldm/gempak/upperair/20110901_upa.gem could not be opened. > I mean with yesterday file... > > Yet, today 20011 09 02, the file that belongs to that day, it did run.. Is > it normal?? Should I check any thing?? > > Best regards, > > Gustavo > > On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:17:41 -0300, banco <address@hidden> wrote: > > Hello Michael, > > > >> > >> I'm looking in ~ldm/etc and see the pqact entries are pointing to > >> GEMPAK5.11.1 tables while the current version if 6.2.0. First thing > you > >> should do is replace all entries of -e > >> GEMTBL=/home/gempak/GEMPAK5.11.1/gempak/tables with -e > >> GEMTBL=/home/gempak/NAWIPS/gempak/tables (this allows you to avoid > > having > >> to change these paths in the future, as long as you direct the > >> ~gempak/NAWIPS/ to the latest installed version). > >> > > > > I've done that change... > > > >> Secondly, in ~ldm/etc/ldmd.conf, you have line 59: > >> > >> EXEC "pqact" > >> > >> Unless you have a reason for this that I don't know of it should be > >> removed. Thing is, I can't tell you if it's related to these *.gema > > files > >> that are showing up in data/gempak/upperair/, it's just a guess that it > > is. > >> > > > > Ok, I'm no sure why it was that EXCE "pqact", anyhow it was removed... > > Can it have to do with running a script with satellite and synop data..? > > I will check it.. > > > >> Update the table directory in *ALL* of the pqact files being referenced > > in > >> ldmd.conf and remove line 59 above, then stop and stop the LDM once > > again > >> and we'll take a look (and cross our fingers that this solves the > > problem). > >> > >> For what it's worth, I copied some of the _upa.gem files over to my own > >> machine and saw the same error not being able to read them, so it's > > clear > >> that the files are not being written correctly. > >> > > > > It seems, that *upa.gem files are all right.. Today > > the script worked well, creating Argentina`s gif sounding... > > > > Best regards, > > > > Gustavo > > > > > > Ps Sorry Michael because of my mistake about your name. > > > >> > >> > >> Ticket Details > >> =================== > >> Ticket ID: TED-560332 > >> Department: Support GEMPAK > >> Priority: Normal > >> Status: Open > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: TED-560332 Department: Support GEMPAK Priority: High Status: Open