[LDM #GNY-856216]: LDM 6.12.6 has crashed twice today with this message...

Gilbert,

I'm glad you found the solution. I'll still have to work on pqact(1), though.

Let me know if setting myself on fire will help with your burn pile. :-)

> OK! I found the issue. Actually, there are two. They are:
> 
> 1. I am an idiot;
> 2. The LDM has a bug!
> 
> The first one has been fixed. See: a few days ago, I went on
> weather3.admin.niu.edu and cleaned out old versions of GEMPAK, only
> keeping the latest version, 7.1. Inexplicably, and I don't know what I was
> thinking (or not) when I did this, I had forgotten to set the $AWIPS and
> Gemenviron environment to point to GEMPAAK version 7.1! It was still
> looking for version 6.7.0. Naturally, when I fixed that and had it pointed
> to 7.1, all errors in ldmd.log stopped...and my LDM is no longer crashing.
> 
> Soooo...
> 
> In the midst of a senior moment, I uncovered a bug in the LDM: point your
> GEMPAK to a version that doesn't exist, and voila! Within a few minutes to
> 6 hours, the LDM crashes and burns. Basically, I DDOS'd my LDM.
> 
> See? We've learned today that doing stupid things are beneficial to
> society, and to the UNIDATA community. While you figure out that bug,
> please excuse me while I go ahead I'll go ahead and light my burn pile
> next to my house. A thousand gallons of gas poured on it should get it
> going, you think?
> 
> (Embarrassed) (goes hiding under a rock)
> 
> Gilbert
> 
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Regards,
Steve Emmerson

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: GNY-856216
Department: Support LDM
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed