[McIDAS #JGN-249914]: IMGMAKE

Hi Mike,

re: failed to revert the 2017 version of 'mcupdate' to a previous, simple state
 
> No worries, glad we came across it fairly quick and that it was an easy fix .

re: what could be causing your white backgrounds and MCSTRETCH failures!!

> I'm working on sniffing this out.  So far I've tried to install the
> latest version on my dev server on top of the pre-release version that
> was on there.  So this was more or less the same procedure that I just
> did on my other server.  Same results, it would plot but dim, and
> IMGCOPY wouldn't work.  The next thing I tried was to rename
> ~mcidas/mcidas2017 and ~mcidas/bin and then install, so I didn't blow
> anything away but it should have been a "cleaner" install.  And then
> installed it just the same.  Here's what happened next...
> 
> IMGDISP NPGOESRL/CONUSC13 MAG=-3 LAT=37 95
> IMGDISP: AGETSERV failed on exec of abisaget
> IMGDISP: done
> IMGDISP failed, RC=2

Ah Ha!  The 'failed on exec of abisaget' indicates that your ADDE dataset
definition(s) are still using ABIS as the type of the NPGOESR images,
not SCMI.  If you recall, a very early version of my SCMI servers were
actually named using ABIS: abisadir and abisaget.  Your invocations before
renaming ~mcidas/mcidas2017 or actually ~mcidas/bin were causing the old servers
to be run, not the new ones.  And all bets are off with the old servers!

re:
> And just to make sure, from your server:
> 
> IMGDISP NPGOESR/CONUSC13 MAG=-3 LAT=37 95
> Beginning Image Data transfer, bytes= 481220
> IMGDISP: loaded frame  1
> IMGDISP: done
> 
> So everything is still fine there.  But what's up with abisaget?
> 
> find . -name "abisaget*"
> ./bin_old/abisaget
> ./mcidas2017_old/src/abisaget.cp
> 
> Nothing from ./bin or ./mcidas2017/src, so with a clean new install I
> don't have an abisaget binary.  I should, right?

Right.  See above.

re:
> If I should have one, then this is a concern:
> tar -ztvf mcidasx2017.tar.gz | grep "abisaget"
> -nothing-

There shouldn't be.  I believe that we talked about this in one of our
email exchanges (but I could be dreaming).  Once you change your
ADDE dataset definitions for the NPGOESR group to SCMI, everything
should work correctly.

re:
> That comes up empty, no files found.  It's in the pre-release though...
> tar -ztvf mcidasx2017_pr.tar.gz | grep "abisaget"
> -rw-r--r-- mcidas/Unidata    36725 2017-07-10 22:54 mcidas2017/src/abisaget.cp
> 
> This is also true for abisadir, I don't seem to have that either.

See above.

re: apologies

> No apologies necessary!  I totally understand that this is just how it
> goes sometimes, all part of the process.

re: many thanks for being my front line tester

> I am more than happy to contribute, and glad it's helping so much.
> I'll always be a willing test subject.  :)

So, as soon as you change ABIS to SCMI in your RESOLV.SRV, things should
work correctly.  Please let me know the results!

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: JGN-249914
Department: Support McIDAS
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed
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