Re: Bus Error with MacOSX , ver 6.0.0-beta and ver 5.2.1

From: Saji Hameed <saji.nh_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Mon Mar 28 2011 - 17:20:14 MDT

Hi Mary,

It worked fine after removing! Thanks very much.

saji

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On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Mary Haley <haley@ucar.edu> wrote:
> Hi Saji,
>
> I *think* the bus error is due to the older versions of WRFUserARW.ncl including a function called "tointeger" that interferes with the built-in "tointeger" function we added in version 5.2.0.
>
> If you are running version NCL version 5.2.0 or later, and you have a version of WRFUserARW.ncl that has "tointeger" in it, try removing the "tointeger" function from WRFUserARW.ncl (or WRFUserARW_add.ncl).
>
> Let me know if this doesn't fix the problem.
>
> --Mary
>
> On Mar 26, 2011, at 8:52 AM, Saji Hameed wrote:
>
>> Hi Mary,
>>
>> Sorry for the delay. Please find attached a sample script.  The data
>> used in this script is from the "Example data sets available at the
>> NCL home page"
>> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/Data/cdf/wrfout_d01_2003-07-15_00:00:00
>>
>> The WRF library loaded after the standard NCL libraries are from
>>
>> http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/OnLineTutorial/Graphics/NCL/Examples/EXPERIMENTAL/WRFUserARW_add.ncl
>>
>> In fact the Bus Error appears only when using this version of the
>> WRFUserARW_add.ncl  The WRF website says that this is an experimental
>> version of the said library script. On the other hand, when I use
>> 5.1.1 with this library, there is no Bus Error
>>
>>
>> The version available at
>> "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/wrf/WRFUserARW.ncl" thankfully does
>> not give the Bus Error with both versions.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> saji
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Mary Haley <haley@ucar.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Saji,
>>> I don't know of any outstanding bug that would explain why you're seeing the seg faults in 5.2.1/6.0.0-beta and not 5.1.1.
>>> Would you be able to provide a script and data as per usual:
>>> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/report_bug.shtml
>>> Thanks,
>>> --Mary
>>> On Mar 24, 2011, at 7:08 AM, Saji Hameed wrote:
>>>
>>> Update - On NCL 5.1.1, there is no bus error
>>>
>>> Note - I have a similar bus error on Linux RedHat. So I have never updated NCL on that machine from version 5.1.1
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Saji Hameed <saji.nh@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear Developers,
>>>>
>>>> I encounter a bus error with the NCL precompiled binary for MacOSX (Snow Leopard, x86_64). The problem does not exist on my Linux machines.  I earlier saw a thread on the same topic started by Eric Noble, but could not trace it to the answer.
>>>>
>>>> In my case, the error is experienced when I call
>>>> gsn_csm_contour_map in one script and gsn_csm_vector_scalar_map in another.  I have not tested with other graphic routines, though.
>>>>
>>>> I first installed NCL version 6.0.0-beta and then switched to 5.2.1, with the same effect.  I don't mind using older versions of NCL, but could not find a binary for the x86_64 architecture.
>>>>
>>>> Any hints?
>>>>
>>>> saji
>>>>
>>>
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