Re: ut_calendar error

Hi Mary,

I tried all kinds of things with the UDUNITS variables, setting one to
point to the xml file in the 6.0.0-beta installation, unsetting it, and
everything in between. In the end, I was unsuccessful. I just decided
to upgrade my system anyway. Now I am running Ubuntu-11 (latest
release) and everything works fine.

One other comment from my original e-mail, was regarding the
cd_calendar() function. I can't seem to get this to work in the
6.0.0-beta version of NCL. I found the function page on the website
about it, but it doesn't say I need to load any additional scripts, or
that it isn't available in the beta all it says is that it will be
available as of V6.0.0. ut_calendar() still works fine for me, I just
wanted to let you know cd_calendar() does not. Output below:

 Copyright (C) 1995-2011 - All Rights Reserved
 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
 NCAR Command Language Version 6.0.0-beta
 The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
 See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
ncl 0> a = 1304916770
ncl 1> b = cd_calendar(a,0)
fatal:Undefined identifier: (cd_calendar) is undefined, can't continue
fatal:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 1

-Dan

On 05/02/2011 12:52 AM, Mary Haley wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> This kind of error showed up with version 5.2.0, but I'm not sure why
> you're seeing it with version 5.2.1. Maybe the answer will still help,
> in case you have some kind of UDUNITS environment variable set:
>
>
> NCL Version 5.2.0 was built against UDUNITS-2, V2.1.14. It needs to
> have the correct path to some UDUNITS xml files in order to work properly.
>
> If you have the environment variable UDUNITS2_XML_PATH set to point to
> an different version of UDUNITS-2, then you may see this message. Try
> unsetting this environment variable with "unset" or "unsetenv".
>
>
> This comes from the FAQ:
>
>
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/faq/index.shtml#err_msgs_006
>
> If this doesn't help, let me know.
>
> --Mary
>
> On Apr 27, 2011, at 12:36 PM, Daniel Adriaansen wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am running NCL on Fedora 12. System information:
>>
>> $ uname -a
>> $ Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE #1 SMP Sat Nov 7
>> 21:25:57 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>>
>> The default NCL package that I chose to install during the Fedora
>> installation was 5.1.1. In this version, the ut_calendar() function
>> performs as expected.
>>
>> However, I upgraded to a pre-compiled non-openDAP enabled binary for
>> version 5.2.1
>> (ncl_ncarg-5.2.1.Linux_i686_nodap_gcc432.tar.gz). This version gave me
>> the following error:
>>
>> Copyright (C) 1995-2010 - All Rights Reserved
>> University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
>> NCAR Command Language Version 5.2.1
>> The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
>> See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
>> ncl 0> a = 1303914836
>> ncl 1> a@units = "seconds since 1970-1-1 00:00:00"
>> ncl 2> b = ut_calendar(a,0)
>> warning:ut_calendar: Invalid specification string. Missing values will be
>> returned.
>>
>> I did not notice this error while using 5.2.1, and have since upgraded to
>> the new ncl-6.0.0-beta:
>> (ncl_ncarg-6.0.0-beta.Linux_RedHat_i686_nodap_gcc412.tar.gz). It was with
>> this version that I uncovered the same error:
>>
>> Copyright (C) 1995-2011 - All Rights Reserved
>> University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
>> NCAR Command Language Version 6.0.0-beta
>> The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
>> See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
>> ncl 0> a = 1303914836
>> ncl 1> a@units = "seconds since 1970-1-1 00:00:00"
>> ncl 2> b = ut_calendar(a,0)
>> warning:ut_calendar: Invalid specification string. Missing values will be
>> returned.
>>
>> I did a little research and noted that this particular warning was an
>> issue that was supposedly solved in 5.2.1. I also noted that
>> ut_calendar() is being replaced by cd_calendar in ncl-6.0.0 but it appears
>> this isn't built into the beta yet:
>>
>> Copyright (C) 1995-2011 - All Rights Reserved
>> University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
>> NCAR Command Language Version 6.0.0-beta
>> The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
>> See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
>> ncl 0> a = 1303914836
>> ncl 1> a@units = "seconds since 1970-1-1 00:00:00"
>> ncl 2> b = cd_calendar(a,0)
>> fatal:Undefined identifier: (cd_calendar) is undefined, can't continue
>> fatal:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 3
>>
>> One of the biggest head-scratchers I have is that I also run
>> ncl-6.0.0-beta on a version of Ubuntu I have installed on another machine,
>> and I do not get this error. ut_calendar() works fine on that setup.
>> System info there:
>>
>> $ uname -a
>> $ Linux 2.6.35-28-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 18 19:00:26 UTC 2011 i686
>> GNU/Linux
>>
>> NCL binary package installed on Ubuntu:
>> ncl_ncarg-6.0.0-beta.Linux_Debian_i686_nodap_gcc432.tar.gz
>>
>> Does anyone have any idea why it won't work on Fedora? Just for kicks I
>> also downloaded the other two 32-bit binaries:
>> ncl_ncarg-6.0.0-beta.Linux_Debian_i686_nodap_gcc445.tar.gz
>> ncl_ncarg-6.0.0-beta.Linux_Debian_i686_nodap_gcc432.tar.gz
>>
>> but recieved the same error when using those installations.
>>
>> I'm perplexed as to why it works on Ubuntu and not Fedora, and why 5.1.1
>> works on Fedora but not 5.2.1 or 6.0.0-beta. I'm also curious why
>> cd_calendar() does not work on 6.0.0-beta either. Suggestions would be
>> appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>>
>> -Dan
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> ncl-talk mailing list
>> List instructions, subscriber options, unsubscribe:
>> http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/ncl-talk
>
Received on Mon May 9 08:37:49 2011