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Hi Dave, In regards to your ldm-mcidas inquiry below: I have been waiting for the smoke to settle wrt LDM installation/configuration/execution before jumping in on the ldm-mcidas issue. Since you gave Steve the login to the new machine, I will use it to scope out the issue(s) below. Cheers, Tom > I've set up LDM v.6.10.1 to run on a new Mac Pro running Mac OS X v.10.8.4. I > was copied (by Mac OS X's Migration Assistant) from a working installation > under Mac OS X v.10.6.8 (Snow Leopard). It generally seems to work, but there > are some errors in the log file. (The same errors occur in the log files for > the previous installation, so this probably has nothing to do with the new > machine or operating system--I just hadn't noticed it before.) > > (The LDM on the new machine logs to /var/log/system.log rather than to > ~/logs/ldm.log, a problem I'd like to correct at some point.) > > I see repeated errors of this sort: > > Jun 18 15:26:38 virga pqact[310] ERRO]: pbuf_flush(): fd=6, cmd=(-close > pnga2area -vl logs/ldm-mcidas.log -a etc/SATANNOT -b etc/SATBAND > data/mcidas/geir/1306182200_sie.mca): Broken pipe > Jun 18 15:26:38 virga pqact[310] ERRO]: pipe_put(): write error: pid=4791, > cmd=(-close pnga2area -vl logs/ldm-mcidas.log -a etc/SATANNOT -b etc/SATBAND > data/mcidas/geir/1306182200_sie.mca) > Jun 18 15:26:38 virga pqact[310] ERRO]: Deleting failed PIPE entry: pid=4791, > cmd="-close pnga2area -vl logs/ldm-mcidas.log -a etc/SATANNOT -b etc/SATBAND > data/mcidas/geir/1306182200_sie.mca" [filel.c:290] > > Based on an email exchange in the Unidata mail archives, I thought that my > SATANNOT and SATBAND files might be out of date. (On my machine they are > dated March 20, 2009, though that's probably just when I copied them there.) > Alternatively, maybe my pnga2area decoder is out of date. (I think it's part > of ldm-mcidas-2004, though it is also dated Mach 20, 2009--I don't have > ldm-mcidas-2008 on my machine but I do have ldm-mcidas-2004, though only > pnga2area is compiled and installed.) > > That email exchange (between you [Tom] and Paul Ruscher in 2007: > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/support/help/MailArchives/ldm-mcidas/msg00413.html) > outlined a way to compile just pnga2area and not the whole ldm-mcidas > package. (pnga2area is all I need.) > > So, following that approach, I did the following: > > (1) Downloaded, uncompressed, and untarred ldm-mcidas-2012.tar.gz. > > (2) Edited CUSTOMIZE to assign values to environment variables that followed > suggestions in INSTALL or that "configure" complained about if I didn't set > them to something. > > (3) Ran configure (successfully--warnings, but no errors). > > (4) Ran make (unsuccessfully beyond a certain point, but far enough to create > pnga2area). > > (5) Moved into the "decode" directory and ran "make pnga2area", which > asserted that pnga2area was already up to date. > > (6) Ran pnga2area to make sure that it runs. > > The result: > > ldm_virga% ./pnga2area > dyld: Symbol not found: _xmlFree > Referenced from: /Users/ldm/ldm-6.10.1/lib/libldm.0.dylib > Expected in: flat namespace > in /Users/ldm/ldm-6.10.1/lib/libldm.0.dylib > Trace/BPT trap > > > This doesn't look successful to me. Any suggestions? > > In case they are useful, I've attached the CUSTOMIZE, configure.log, and > make.log files. > > -- Dave > > > > ************************************************************ > * Dr. Dave Dempsey | ^ ___ \|/ * > * Dept. of Geosciences | ) ^ /||_||\ --0-- * > * San Francisco State University | ) ) / ||_|| \ /|\ * > * 1600 Holloway Ave. | ) ) / ||_|| \ * > * San Francisco, CA 94132 | ) ) / ||_|| \ ^ * > * | ) ) ) > ||_|| \ * > * Phone: (415) 338-7716 | ) ) )~||~||~~~~ \~~* > * FAX: (415) 338-7705 | ) ) ) ) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~* > * Email: address@hidden | ) ) ) ) ) ~ ~ ~ ~ * > ************************************************************ > > > > > 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: JLP-943200 Department: Support ldm-mcidas Priority: Normal Status: Open