[LDM #BLJ-646993]: Issues with LDM 6.12.9

Kevin,

Those make(1) error messages indicate a bad problem. The LDM is unlikely to 
work correctly.

Can you send me more of the output from the make(1)?

> Hi Steve,
> 
> I thought it was a permissions issue as well when I wrote to you
> yesterday.  But I "thought" I had my permissions set up correctly.
> Anyway,  I went ahead and re-installed LDM, just to start over from the
> beginning and make sure I did all the proper steps.  So here was the output
> I got after running "make" on it:
> 
> Makefile:1059: recipe for target 'install-data-hook' failed
> make[3]: *** [install-data-hook] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/ldm/ldm-6.12.9/src'
> Makefile:980: recipe for target 'install-data-am' failed
> make[2]: *** [install-data-am] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/ldm/ldm-6.12.9/src'
> Makefile:932: recipe for target 'install-am' failed
> make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/ldm/ldm-6.12.9/src'
> Makefile:638: recipe for target 'install-recursive' failed
> make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> 
> 
> Despite those error messages LDM is still working.  I verified I am getting
> data with ldmadmin watch and I am saving and able to display in NMAP
> satellite and radar data.  Also am getting the text products which can be
> viewed in NWX.  But I can't save surface, upper air, model data or other
> data (csig, rdf, mos, warnings, watches, etc).  I believe the decoders are
> working but when I look at the log file it says it cant save any of those
> files.
> 
> I think my permissions are correct.  In User LDM which is in the (/home/ldm
> directory) the owner is ldm and the user is ldm except for my decoders
> directory (/home/ldm/decoders) which I have as ldm:users and also my data
> directory which is the same.  My data directory comes out as
> /home/ldm/var/data/data/gempak but it seems like there are only a couple of
> directories being created (ie; nwx, isig, fire) and some of those files are
> 0 bytes.
> 
> In my gempak account I have gempak as the owner and gempak as the group.  I
> created a directory called metdat which is where I point in my pqact.conf
> file to send the data to.  I have this directory's permissions set as owner
> ldm and group as users.     And I have the permissions set to 775 for all.
> 
> So I am not sure where I am going wrong here. Does the error messages in
> the install have anything to do with this?  As I was watching the
> ./configure run and also as I was watching the make install run....I did
> not notice anything that looked like an error. Those error messages I
> received was right at the end of the make script, right after I had to give
> my root password.  I still had to manually go into root to run "make
> install_setuids" since that didn't change the settings during the script.
> 
> It had been quite awhile since I had to install LDM and I am recalling that
> it seemed like I also had a symbolic link set up in my /home/ldm directory
> that pointed to my /home/gempak/GEMPAK7/metdat directory....but I don't
> know if I would need to do that or not.  I mean satellite and radar data
> are storing so something is working but those don't have to go through a
> decoder.  If you have any more ideas on what to try I would appreciate it.
> I am frustrated since this shouldn't be a hard thing to implement yet it is
> becoming that way.  Thanks Steve.
> 
> 
> Kevin


Regards,
Steve Emmerson

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: BLJ-646993
Department: Support LDM
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed