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Hi SJ, Quick update on some of our activities yesterday afternoon on measwx... Three of us (Michael, Steve and I) were looking at the segmentation log files on measwx and using the debugger to examine the core files. We discovered at least one problem that we fixed: dcnldn - a character buffer into which an 'sprintf' was writing information was too small to accommodate the fully qualified name of the '.gem' files on measwx. After increasing the buffer size; rebuilding the dcnldn 6.6.0 binary from source; and "installing" it (i.e., copying the newly built binary to the ~ldm/decoders directory), it stopped dumping core dcncprof - we (Michael actually) have not yet figure out what is going on with this decoder Another BIG thing we discovered yesterday is that the LDM on measwx was configured to run redundant invocations of GEMPAK decoders. The effect of this was that two invocations of the same decoder would try to write to the same output '.gem' file. This was causing most of the segmentation violations log messages you were seeing (we think). As we left things yesterday evening, the pattern-action file actions for dcncprof were commented out, and the LDM was left running. More as we figure out what is going on with dcncprof... Cheers, Tom -- **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: MNK-989154 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: Closed