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Hi Michael- > Full Name: Michael Allen > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: Champlin Park High School > Package Version: 2.7b2 build date:2009-05-27 19:52 UTC > Operating System: Linux > Hardware: Java: home: /root/IDV_2.7b2/jre version: 1.6.0_13 j3d:1.5.2 fcs > (build4) > Description of problem: Creating obs > java.lang.NullPointerException Thanks for catching this (that's why we put out beta releases. ;-)). It is fixed in the latest nightly build that can be downloaded at: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/idv/nightly and will be in the full 2.7 release. Don Murray > I don't know what information you will find useful. I'm trying the beta 2 > version of IDV on a Linux (CentOS 2.6.128) box with dual AMD Opteron 248 > processors, 500 GB hard drive file system with RAID 0. > > IDV 2.6 runs very well. This error, and similar ones, result from loading > and creating images from Nexrad III radar. > > Michael Allen > > ****************** > Stack trace: > java.lang.NullPointerException > at > ucar.unidata.data.radar.CDMRadarAdapter.getRaster(CDMRadarAdapter.java:2621) > at ucar.unidata.data.radar.CDMRadarAdapter.getData(CDMRadarAdapter.java:1799) > at ucar.unidata.data.radar.RadarDataSource$2.run(RadarDataSource.java:473) > at visad.util.ThreadManager.runInParallel(ThreadManager.java:273) > at visad.util.ThreadManager.runInParallel(ThreadManager.java:245) > at visad.util.ThreadManager.runInParallel(ThreadManager.java:212) > at > ucar.unidata.data.radar.RadarDataSource.getDataInner(RadarDataSource.java:485) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataSourceImpl.getData(DataSourceImpl.java:2122) > at ucar.unidata.data.DirectDataChoice.getData(DirectDataChoice.java:332) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataChoice.getData(DataChoice.java:634) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataInstance.getData(DataInstance.java:239) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataInstance.getData(DataInstance.java:203) > at ucar.unidata.data.grid.GridDataInstance.init(GridDataInstance.java:204) > at ucar.unidata.data.grid.GridDataInstance.<init>(GridDataInstance.java:161) > at ucar.unidata.data.grid.GridDataInstance.<init>(GridDataInstance.java:142) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.control.PlanViewControl.doMakeDataInstance(PlanViewControl.java:1274) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.control.DisplayControlImpl.initializeDataInstance(DisplayControlImpl.java:2968) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.control.DisplayControlImpl.setData(DisplayControlImpl.java:2950) > at ucar.unidata.idv.control.PlanViewControl.setData(PlanViewControl.java:559) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.control.ImagePlanViewControl.setData(ImagePlanViewControl.java:123) > at ucar.unidata.idv.control.PlanViewControl.init(PlanViewControl.java:425) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.control.DisplayControlImpl.init(DisplayControlImpl.java:1269) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.control.DisplayControlImpl.init(DisplayControlImpl.java:978) > at ucar.unidata.idv.ControlDescriptor.initControl(ControlDescriptor.java:979) > at ucar.unidata.idv.ControlDescriptor$1.run(ControlDescriptor.java:904) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1061) > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: GDT-859016 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Open