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[UDUNITS #AOK-455227]: undefined symbol: XML_ParserCreate

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  • Subject: [UDUNITS #AOK-455227]: undefined symbol: XML_ParserCreate
  • Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:37:06 -0600
Daniel,

> I am working on OOICI  (Ocean Observatories Initiative
> Cyberinfrastructur) at UCSD. I downloaded DUNITS 2.1.21 and
> installed/configured it on my CentOS  5, but I got the error messages
> when the libudunits2.so of udunits was called by cfchecker.  Any assist
> would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks again,
> Daniel
> 
> Here is the command and errors:
> 
> [root@grails udunits]# cfchecks -v 1.4 -u
> /usr/local/udunits-2.1.21/share/udunits/udunits2.xml
> /usr/local/netcdf-sample/sresa1b_ncar_ccsm3_0_run1_200001.nc
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/cfchecks", line 8, in <module>
> load_entry_point('cfchecker==2.0.2', 'console_scripts', 'cfchecks')()
> File
> "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/pkg_resources.py",
> line 318, in load_entry_point
> def get_metadata_lines(name):
> File
> "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/pkg_resources.py",
> line 2221, in load_entry_point
> """Return a ``Requirement`` that matches this distribution exactly"""
> File
> "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/pkg_resources.py",
> line 1954, in load
> return entry
> File
> "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cfchecker-2.0.2-py2.6.egg/cfchecker/__init__.py",
> line 2, in <module>
> from cfchecker.cfchecks import getargs, CFChecker
> File
> "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cfchecker-2.0.2-py2.6.egg/cfchecker/cfchecks.py",
> line 48, in <module>
> udunits=CDLL("libudunits2.so")
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/ctypes/__init__.py", line 353, in __init__
> self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
> OSError: /usr/local/udunits-2.1.21/lib/libudunits2.so: undefined symbol:
> XML_ParserCreate

Look at the installed UDUNITS-2 library, libudunits.so. Does it contain the 
symbol XML_ParserCreate? (You can use the nm(1) utility to determine this.)

Regards,
Steve Emmerson

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: AOK-455227
Department: Support UDUNITS
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed