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Hi Tommy, I'm assuming that you are running a 4.3 release of the TDS, since you've mentioned updating jar files. I can take a look at the failure if you follow these steps to get a clean set of logs that capture the problem: Stop the tomcat server. Install the latest release if needed. Remove/copy all files from {tomcat}/logs and {tomcat}/content/thredds/logs Restart the server Make the problem happen Zip up everything in {tomcat}/logs and {tomcat}/content/thredds/logs. Send the logs and a detailed description of what you do to make the problem happen, and what the problem looks like. If it took a while to get the problem to happen, note what time it happened so that we can correlate with the logs. Thanks, Lansing Madry Unidata Boulder, Colorado > Hi guys - just updated my ncIdv.jar and some union aggregations > started failing with below exception, any ideas? > > [java] 09:49:19.987 [Thread-113] INFO > t.i.CollectionManagerAbstract - log: HEY cleanName > [java] 09:49:19.988 [Thread-113] ERROR > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - setup: cannot create NetCDF reader > for files selected > [java] 09:49:19.989 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: java.lang.NullPointerException > [java] 09:49:19.989 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > thredds.inventory.CollectionManagerAbstract.cleanName(CollectionManagerAbstract.java:56) > [java] 09:49:19.989 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > thredds.inventory.CollectionManagerAbstract.<init>(CollectionManagerAbstract.java:70) > [java] 09:49:19.990 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > thredds.inventory.MFileCollectionManager.<init>(MFileCollectionManager.java:236) > [java] 09:49:19.990 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > thredds.inventory.MFileCollectionManager.openWithRecheck(MFileCollectionManager.java:91) > [java] 09:49:19.990 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > ucar.nc2.ncml.Aggregation.<init>(Aggregation.java:176) > [java] 09:49:19.990 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > ucar.nc2.ncml.AggregationUnion.<init>(AggregationUnion.java:56) > [java] 09:49:19.991 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > ucar.nc2.ncml.NcMLReader.readAgg(NcMLReader.java:1256) > [java] 09:49:19.991 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > ucar.nc2.ncml.NcMLReader.readNetcdf(NcMLReader.java:491) > [java] 09:49:19.991 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > ucar.nc2.ncml.NcMLReader.readNcML(NcMLReader.java:438) > [java] 09:49:19.992 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > ucar.nc2.ncml.NcMLReader.readNcML(NcMLReader.java:351) > [java] 09:49:19.992 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > ucar.nc2.ncml.NcMLReader.readNcML(NcMLReader.java:283) > [java] 09:49:19.992 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > edu.wisc.ssec.mcidasv.data.hydra.NetCDFFile.<init>(NetCDFFile.java:89) > [java] 09:49:19.992 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > edu.wisc.ssec.mcidasv.data.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource.setup(SuomiNPPDataSource.java:458) > [java] 09:49:19.993 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > edu.wisc.ssec.mcidasv.data.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource.<init>(SuomiNPPDataSource.java:207) > [java] 09:49:19.993 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > edu.wisc.ssec.mcidasv.data.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource.<init>(SuomiNPPDataSource.java:181) > [java] 09:49:19.993 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) > [java] 09:49:19.993 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39) > [java] 09:49:19.994 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27) > [java] 09:49:19.994 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513) > [java] 09:49:19.994 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.createDataSource(DataManager.java:1590) > [java] 09:49:19.994 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.createDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1980) > [java] 09:49:19.995 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1897) > [java] 09:49:19.995 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1831) > [java] 09:49:19.995 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1804) > [java] 09:49:19.995 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.IdvChooser.makeDataSource(IdvChooser.java:943) > [java] 09:49:19.996 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.FileChooser.selectFilesInner(FileChooser.java:656) > [java] 09:49:19.996 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > edu.wisc.ssec.mcidasv.chooser.SuomiNPPChooser.selectFilesInner(SuomiNPPChooser.java:105) > [java] 09:49:19.996 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.FileChooser.selectFiles(FileChooser.java:525) > [java] 09:49:19.996 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > edu.wisc.ssec.mcidasv.chooser.FileChooser.doLoadInThread(FileChooser.java:229) > [java] 09:49:19.996 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > [java] 09:49:19.997 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) > [java] 09:49:19.997 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) > [java] 09:49:19.997 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) > [java] 09:49:19.997 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > ucar.unidata.util.Misc$2.run(Misc.java:1221) > [java] 09:49:19.998 [Thread-113] WARN > e.w.s.m.d.hydra.SuomiNPPDataSource - log: at > ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1249) > > -- > Tommy Jasmin > Space Science and Engineering Center > University of Wisconsin, Madison > 1225 West Dayton Street, Madison, WI 53706 > > -Lansing Madry Unidata Boulder, Colorado Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: NNB-487385 Department: Support netCDF Java Priority: Normal Status: Open