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

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  • Subject: [LDM #GNY-856216]: LDM 6.12.6 has crashed twice today with this message...
  • Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 08:58:39 -0600
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