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Hi Andy- > Full Name: Andy Boateng > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: UNL > Package Version: 2.7u2 build date:2009-08-26 16:33 UTC > Operating System: Windows XP > Hardware: Java: home: C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_03 version: 1.6.0_03 > j3d:1.5.2 fcs (build4) > Description of problem: There was an error loading the data: > Error creating data source:opendap.grid with: > http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/thredds/dodsC/gpc_agg > Grid data source failed making data set: > dods://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/thredds/dodsC/gpc_agg > Error parsing server Error object! > Encountered '-1' at line 2, column 12. > Was expecting: > <INT> ... It looks like NCDC has a configuration error on their server. If you just open up the URL in a browser, you get an error. I would suggest contacting NCDC. Don Murray > ****************** > Stack trace: > java.io.IOException: Error parsing server Error object! > Encountered '-1' at line 2, column 12. > Was expecting: > <INT> ... > > at ucar.nc2.dods.DODSNetcdfFile.<init>(DODSNetcdfFile.java:231) > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.acquireDODS(NetcdfDataset.java:804) > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.openOrAcquireFile(NetcdfDataset.java:678) > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.openDataset(NetcdfDataset.java:434) > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.acquireDataset(NetcdfDataset.java:544) > at ucar.nc2.dt.grid.GridDataset.open(GridDataset.java:88) > at > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.doMakeDataSet(GeoGridDataSource.java:1052) > at > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.getDataset(GeoGridDataSource.java:1074) > at > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.initAfterCreation(GeoGridDataSource.java:443) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.createDataSource(DataManager.java:1525) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.createDataSource(DataManager.java:1312) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.createDataSource(DataManager.java:1295) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.loadDataFiles(IntegratedDataViewer.java:547) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.initInner(IntegratedDataViewer.java:613) > at ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer$3.run(IntegratedDataViewer.java:523) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1061) > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: PCL-667090 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Open