Re: Segmentation Error with Running NCL

After all these years of using NCAR Graphics tools, I downloaded a newer
version of NCL yesterday, had remembered in the back of my mind that I
should set NCARG_ROOT before running, but I forgot, and I couldn't figure
out why I was getting seg faults.

I just happened to browse at your response to this problem and it rang a
bell in my head, and sure enough, remembering to set NCARG_ROOT solved the
problem. Just letting you know that your suggested solutions go beyond
helping the original person who posted :) Thanks for helping those of us
with our "senior moments."

By the way, you'll have one of our students, Kayla Harrison, at the NCL
Tutorial this summer. I've been her mentor for three years and she's been
a joy to work with. I threw Unix and WRF at her when she first came to us
as a freshman, and though she went through a lot of frustration (and
isolation, because I was often out of town), she stuck with it and has been
doing some great stuff for us. I'm sure you'll enjoy her there!

Best,

Don Morton

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Dennis Shea <shea@ucar.edu> wrote:

> I think you must set the NCARG_ROOT environment variable correctly
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> On 04/05/2012 02:27 PM, Quelet, Paul T (E W EN R&D DT LAC 4) wrote:
> > Greetings everyone,
> > I have not used NCL in a while. I was part of the tutorial for NCL in
> > January and had several working scripts. When I went to run it a few
> > days ago, this is the error that I received.
> > 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.
> > warning:Unable to Get System Resource File Name?
> > warning:Unable to load System Resource File (null)
> > fatal:GetSysAppDir:Unable to get a default value for the system App
> > Resource directory
> > warning:["Resources.c":734]:Unable to set appSysDir to default value -
> > Using NULL
> > fatal:GetSysAppDir:Unable to get a default value for the system App
> > Resource directory
> > warning:["Resources.c":734]:Unable to set appSysDir to default value -
> > Using NULL
> > warning:Unable to Get System Resource File Name?
> > Segmentation fault
> > My version of Linux is the following (keystone is the name of my
> > workstation):
> > Linux keystone 2.6.18-274.7.1.el5 #1 SMP Mon Oct 17 11:57:14 EDT 2011
> > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> > I have version of 6.0.0 of NCL. Please let me know what might have
> > happened. I know that my hard disk space became full at one point, but I
> > cleaned it up. NCL is installed locally in ~/NCL
> > Otherwise, I have no idea how to address this problem.
> > Thank you in advance!!
> > --Paul Quelet
> > **
> >
> >
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