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Gerry, > After starting the process of updating our LDM suite to 6.9.4 I've run > into the following error on one machine: > > [ldm@ernie data]$ ldmadmin mkqueue -f > Illegal size "4g" > Usage: pqcreate [options] <initialsz>[k|m|g] <pqfname> > pqcreate [options] -s <initialsz>[k|m|g] [-q <pqfname>] > Options: > -v > -c > -f > -l logfname > -S nproducts > (default pqfname is "/usr/local/ldm/var/queues/ldm.pq") > make_pq(): mkqueue(1) failed > > I've gone through several times, removed and reinstalled the software. > Configure was about as simple as it can go (./configure > --enable-logging=local0 >configure.log 2>&1). > > Attaching logs for your review. This one's odd... > > Oh, yeah:[ldm@ernie src]$ uname -a > Linux ernie.tamu.edu 2.6.18-194.8.1.el5PAE #1 SMP Thu Jul 1 19:46:23 EDT > 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > > I'll try to decipher this some more at the office shortly. In the programming environment used to build the LDM, the "off_t" type (used to set the size of the product-queue) isn't capacious enough to contain the value 4,000,000,000. The file "configure.log" contained this: configure: Checking how to maximize the (long, void*, off_t) programming environment checking if the system supports _XBS5_LPBIG_OFFBIG... no checking if the system supports _XBS5_LP64_OFF64... no checking if the system supports _XBS5_ILP32_OFFBIG... no > Thanks, gerry > -- > Gerry Creager -- address@hidden > Texas Mesonet -- AATLT, Texas A&M University > Cell: 979.229.5301 Office: 979.458.4020 FAX: 979.862.3983 > Office: 1700 Research Parkway Ste 160, TAMU, College Station, TX 77843 Regards, Steve Emmerson Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: HTO-469896 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: Closed