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> Full Name: Raquel > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: University of the Philippines > Package Version: 5.2 build date:2015-08-26 18:19 UTC > Operating System: Windows 8.1 > Hardware: Java: home: C:\Program Files (x86)\IDV_5.2\jre version: 1.8.0_45 > j3d:1.6.0-pre9-daily-experimental daily > Description of problem: > > There was an error loading the data: > java.lang.NullPointerException > > This error was showing when I'm trying to open a .csv file of focal > mechanism solutions from GCMT. > > Please see the attached image below for the details of the error, and > the screenshot of my GCMT list.. > > Is there anything wrong from my table? > > I hope you can help me on this. Thanks. The scree shot of your GCMT data looks ok to me, but I am not very familiar with the earthquake dataset. You should make sure each point has its lat/lon/alt, can not have any missing data in the coordinate variable. I noticed you running the IDV on a 32 bit OS, the java memory limit is very low. You should consider a 64 bit OS where you can have more memory. Yuan > > ****************** > Stack trace: > java.lang.NullPointerException > at visad.Tuple.buildTupleType(Tuple.java:170) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.makePointObs(TextPointDataSource.java:2121) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.makeObs(TextPointDataSource.java:668) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.makeObs(TextPointDataSource.java:488) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.getSample(TextPointDataSource.java:2578) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.PointDataSource.doMakeDataChoices(PointDataSource.java:960) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.doMakeDataChoices(TextPointDataSource.java:2586) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataSourceImpl.getDataChoices(DataSourceImpl.java:1855) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.createDataSource(DataManager.java:1573) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.createDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1979) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1896) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1830) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1803) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.IdvChooser.makeDataSource(IdvChooser.java:943) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.FileChooser.selectFilesInner(FileChooser.java:656) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.FileChooser.selectFiles(FileChooser.java:525) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.FileChooser.doLoadInThread(FileChooser.java:547) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) > at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$2.run(Misc.java:1215) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1243) > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: FXB-699294 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Closed =================== NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.