[netCDF #PEN-204681]: Problem reading NetCDF 4 classic files b/w NetCDF 4.0.1 and 4.1.1?

> Thanks Russ. I wasn't sure this was a bug, otherwise I would have sent you a 
> test case. Do you want the original file that the user sent me? It's 478 Mb.
> 
> --Mary

No thanks, the file I used to reproduce the problem is only 3148 bytes, so I'll 
use
that.  We're talking to the HDF5 developers about this, because although it 
looks 
like an HDF5 bug, we would have to verify that with them.

--Russ

> On May 13, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Unidata netCDF Support wrote:
> 
> > Hi Mary,
> >
> > Sorry it has taken so long to respond to your question ...
> >
> >> A user gave me a NetCDF 4 classic file that he created using NetCDF 
> >> 4.1.1/HDF5 1.8.4-patch1 on a little endian machine.
> >>
> >> He tried to open it with a version of NCL that had been linked against 
> >> NetCDF 4.0.1 and HDF5 1.8.2, and got the following error:
> >>
> >> fatal:Can't open HDF5 attribute
> >>
> >> I saw this same problem using "ncdump" from NetCDF 4.0.1/HDF 1.8.2:
> >>
> >> % ncdump slp.nc4Classic.1979.nc
> >> ncdump: slp.nc4Classic.1979.nc: Can't open HDF5 attribute
> >>
> >>
> >> If I use ncdump or ncl that was compiled against NetCDF 4.1.1 and 
> >> HDF5-1.8.4-patch1, it works fine.
> >>
> >> Is this related to the fix that went into HDF5 1.8.4-patch1? There are 
> >> more than 10 attributes attached to one
> >> of the variables, but I thought the bug only applied to files that were 
> >> written on a big endian machine.
> >
> > I'm assuming the errors occurred on a big-endian machine.  You're right 
> > that the original
> > report on the bug at
> >
> >  http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/known_problems/index.html
> >
> > says it only occurs for files written on big-endian platforms and read on 
> > little-endian
> > platforms.  I thought we had tested that things work OK in the other 
> > direction.
> >
> > But I just succeeded in duplicating the problem you report, creating a 
> > simple file with
> > a variable having 10 attributes on a big-endian platform using 4.1.1 and 
> > running a
> > 4.0.1 version of ncdump built on a little-endian platform on that simple 
> > file, resulting
> > in a segmentation violation in an HDF5 function called from nc_open().  We 
> > will investigate
> > further.  Thanks for reporting the problem!
> >
> > --Russ
> >
> >
> >
> > Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
> > address@hidden                      http://www.unidata.ucar.edu
> >
> >
> >
> > Ticket Details
> > ===================
> > Ticket ID: PEN-204681
> > Department: Support netCDF
> > Priority: Urgent
> > Status: Closed
> >
> 
> 

Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                      http://www.unidata.ucar.edu



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: PEN-204681
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Urgent
Status: Closed