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Art, > pqsurf is dying immediately after starting the ldm. Can you tell me how > to find out more about why it's dying, or perhaps take a look at it? > Here's the log entries: > > Dec 21 16:58:40 ls3 rpc.ldmd[12144] NOTE: Starting Up (version: 6.6.5; > built: Nov 16 2007 10:05:33) > Dec 21 16:58:41 ls3 rpc.ldmd[12144] NOTE: Using local address 0.0.0.0:388 > Dec 21 16:58:41 ls3 pqact[12146] NOTE: Starting Up > Dec 21 16:58:41 ls3 pqact[12148] NOTE: Starting Up > Dec 21 16:58:41 ls3 pqact[12148] NOTE: Starting from insertion-time > 2007-12-21 16:58:37.359734 UTC > Dec 21 16:58:41 ls3 ldm.meteo.psu.edu[12152] NOTE: Starting Up(6.6.5): > ldm.meteo.psu.edu:388 20071221105841.249 TS_ENDT {{ANY, ".*"}} > Dec 21 16:58:41 ls3 ldm.meteo.psu.edu[12152] NOTE: LDM-6 desired > product-class: 20071221105841.250 TS_ENDT {{ANY, ".*"},{NONE, > "SIG=3f083c99bdbabcd582b025e4fc067efc"}} > Dec 21 16:58:41 ls3 pqact[12147] NOTE: Starting Up > Dec 21 16:58:41 ls3 pqact[12149] NOTE: Starting Up > Dec 21 16:58:41 ls3 pqact[12147] NOTE: Starting from insertion-time > 2007-12-21 16:58:37.359734 UTC > Dec 21 16:58:41 ls3 rtstats[12151] NOTE: Starting Up (12144) > Dec 21 16:58:41 ls3 pqact[12146] NOTE: Starting from insertion-time > 2007-12-21 16:58:37.359734 UTC > Dec 21 16:58:41 ls3 pqact[12149] NOTE: Starting from insertion-time > 2007-12-21 16:58:37.359734 UTC > Dec 21 16:58:41 ls3 ldm.meteo.psu.edu[12152] NOTE: Upstream LDM-6 on > ldm.meteo.psu.edu is willing to be a primary feeder > Dec 21 16:58:41 ls3 pqsurf[12150] NOTE: Starting Up (12144) > Dec 21 16:58:41 ls3 pqact[12156] NOTE: Starting Up > Dec 21 16:58:41 ls3 pqact[12156] NOTE: Starting from insertion-time > 2007-12-20 21:34:44.685144 UTC > Dec 21 16:58:42 ls3 pqact[12156] WARN: Processed oldest product in queue: > 0.000736 s > Dec 21 16:59:05 ls3 pqact[12147] NOTE: child 12197 exited with status 1 > Dec 21 17:00:13 ls3 pqsurf[12150] NOTE: child 12156 terminated by signal > 11 > Dec 21 17:00:13 ls3 pqsurf[12150] NOTE: Exiting > Dec 21 17:00:13 ls3 pqsurf[12150] NOTE: Queue usage (bytes): 53008 > Dec 21 17:00:13 ls3 pqsurf[12150] NOTE: (nregions): 264 > Dec 21 17:00:14 ls3 pqsurf[12150] NOTE: Number of products 51 > Dec 21 17:00:14 ls3 pqsurf[12150] NOTE: Number of observations 291 > Dec 21 17:00:14 ls3 pqsurf[12150] NOTE: Number of dups 27 The above indicates that a child process (12197) of the "pqsurf" process (12150) terminated abnormally due to a segmentation violation (signal 11). Apparently, something that's executed out of your "pqsurf" configuration-file (etc/pqsurf.conf) has a bug in it. What's in the configuration-file? > Dec 21 17:00:14 ls3 rpc.ldmd[12144] NOTE: child 12150 exited with status > 1: pqsurf -a 6.0 -Q /usr/local/ldm/pq/pqsurf.pq > Dec 21 17:04:05 ls3 pqact[12147] NOTE: child 12236 exited with status 1 > Dec 21 17:05:08 ls3 pqact[12147] NOTE: child 12244 exited with status 1 > Dec 21 17:05:08 ls3 pqact[12147] NOTE: child 12245 exited with status 1 > > > Thanks... > > Art > > Arthur A. Person > Research Assistant, System Administrator > Penn State Department of Meteorology > email: address@hidden, phone: 814-863-1563 Regards, Steve Emmerson Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: DCW-448836 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: On Hold