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> Yes. My IT guy installed yesterday afternoon and used 6.2u3. He copied > the jar file you sent into that DIR. He installs new versions into their > own directory so others who may be running a previous version are not > impacted by my testing . > > Dave Is this a linux system? What is the dataset you were testing on? I tried GFS 80km and WRF and not seeing this error. Yuan > > address@hidden> wrote: > > > > Hi Yuan. > > > > > > Get this error message when loading: > > > > > > ERROR: Creating unit: ??C > > > Error parsing unit:visad.data.units.ParseException: Lexical error at line > > > 1, column 1. Encountered: "?" (63), after : "" > > > visad.VisADException: Error parsing unit:visad.data.units.ParseException: > > > Lexical error at line 1, column 1. Encountered: "?" (63), after : "" > > > > > > IDV does start. When trying to load time height get this message and > > > blank display with no data. No probe displays on map either. Lat long > > > blank. > > > > > > ERROR: Creating display: Time/Height Display (Color-Filled) > > > Gridded2DDoubleSet: samples values may not be missing > > > visad.SetException: Gridded2DDoubleSet: samples values may not be missing > > > at visad.Gridded2DDoubleSet.<init>(Gridded2DDoubleSet.java:145) > > > at visad.Gridded2DDoubleSet.<init>(Gridded2DDoubleSet.java:123) > > > at visad.Gridded2DDoubleSet.<init>(Gridded2DDoubleSet.java:117) > > > at > > > > > ucar.unidata.idv.control.TimeHeightControl.displayTHForCoord(TimeHeightControl.java:423) > > > at > > > > > ucar.unidata.idv.control.TimeHeightControl.loadProfile(TimeHeightControl.java:528) > > > at > > > > > ucar.unidata.idv.control.TimeHeightControl.applySmoothing(TimeHeightControl.java:480) > > > at > > > > > ucar.unidata.idv.control.DisplayControlImpl.applyAttributesToDisplayables(DisplayControlImpl.java:1608) > > > at > > > > > ucar.unidata.idv.control.DisplayControlImpl.init(DisplayControlImpl.java:1157) > > > at > > > > > ucar.unidata.idv.ControlDescriptor.initControl(ControlDescriptor.java:993) > > > at ucar.unidata.idv.ControlDescriptor$1.run(ControlDescriptor.java:918) > > > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1243) > > > > > > Dave > > > > > This is very wired, I tested this idv.jar file in my 6.2u3 and everything > > is working correctly. > > Are you testing on the u3 version? When did you install this u3 version? > > > > Yuan > > > > Ticket Details > > =================== > > Ticket ID: QAA-965570 > > Department: Support IDV > > Priority: Critical > > Status: Open > > =================== > > NOTE: All email exchanges with NSF 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. > > > > > > > > -- > *David Reynolds* > *Research Associate* > *Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences* > *University of Colorado* > *at Monterey, CA * > > *cell - 831-521-9262* > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: QAA-965570 Department: Support IDV Priority: Critical Status: Open =================== NOTE: All email exchanges with NSF 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.