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<br><div><html>On Apr 3, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Steven Weiss wrote:</html><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Hi Jennifer,</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Thanks, when would the next release be available? I dont think I'm going to be building from source. I will have to ignore this variable for the meantime.</font></div></span></blockquote>You can change your script to use 'gxout print' and parse that result instead -- that would bypass the bug... </div><div>Jennifer<br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Regards</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Steven</font></div><blockquote dir="ltr" style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; margin-right: 0px; "><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; ">----- Original Message -----</div><div style="background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; background-position: initial initial; "><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="jma@COLA.IGES.ORG" href="mailto:jma@COLA.IGES.ORG">Jennifer Adams</a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="GRADSUSR@LIST.CINECA.IT" href="mailto:GRADSUSR@LIST.CINECA.IT">GRADSUSR@LIST.CINECA.IT</a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, April 03, 2008 3:29 PM</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: grads-2.0.a1 segmentation fault</div><div><br></div>Hi, Steven -- <div>Great detective work! I downloaded the file you pointed to and now I can see the error -- I fixed the lat/lon/time as you suggest and with 'set gxout contour' got :</div><div> Result value = 4.26098e-311 but with 'set gxout print' I got: Printing Grid -- 1 Values -- Undef = 9.999e+20 9.999e+20 <div><br></div><div>This is clearly a bug -- I will look into it and put a fix in the next release. </div><div>Jennifer</div><div><br></div></div><div><br><div>On Apr 3, 2008, at 7:28 AM, Steven Weiss wrote:<br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hi,</div><div style="min-height: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I'm getting a segmentation fault which occurs inconsistantly. I've managed</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">to narrow it down to a particular variable in the grib file - DISRswsfc that</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">sometimes has garbage in it for certain time steps. I'm working with the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">wavewatch 3 data from ncep/noaa.</div><div style="min-height: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Below is an example of what is happening:</div><div style="min-height: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Grads Output</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) Version 2.0.a1</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Copyright (c) 1988-2008 by Brian Doty and the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Institute for Global Environment and Society (IGES)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">GrADS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">See file COPYRIGHT for more information</div><div style="min-height: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Config: v2.0.a1 little-endian readline printim grib2 netcdf hdf4-sds</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Issue 'q config' command for more information.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Landscape mode? ('n' for portrait):</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">GX Package Initialization: Size = 11 8.5</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Running in Batch mode</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">ga-> sw.gs</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Result value = -1.04874e+80</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Segmentation fault</div><div style="min-height: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Downloaded data</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">---------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="ftp://ftpprd.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/data/nccf/com/wave/prod/wave.20080403/nww3.t00z.grib.grib2">ftp://ftpprd.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/data/nccf/com/wave/prod/wave.20080403/nww3.t00z.grib.grib2</a></div><div style="min-height: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Control file</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">dset ^nww3.all.grb</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">index ^nww3.all.grb.idx</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">undef 9.999E+20</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">title nww3.all.grb</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">*<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>produced by g2ctl v0.0.3d</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">* griddef=1:0:(288 x 157):grid_template=0: lat-lon grid:(288 x 157) units 1e-06</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">input WE:NS output WE:SN res 48 lat 78.000000 to -78.000000 by 1.000000 lon 0.00</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">0000 to 358.750000 by 1.250000 #points=45216</div><div style="min-height: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">dtype grib2</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">ydef 157 linear -78.000000 1</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">xdef 288 linear 0.000000 1.250000</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">tdef 61 linear 00Z03apr2008 3hr</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">zdef 1 linear 1 1</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">vars 11</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">DIRPWsfc<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>0,1,0<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>10,0,10 ** surface none Primary Wave Direction [deg]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">DIRSWsfc<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>0,1,0<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>10,0,12 ** surface none Secondary Wave Direction [deg]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">HTSGWsfc<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>0,1,0<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>10,0,3 ** surface none Significant Height of Combined Wind</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Waves and Swell [m]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">PERPWsfc<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>0,1,0<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>10,0,11 ** surface none Primary Wave Mean Period [s]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">PERSWsfc<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>0,1,0<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>10,0,13 ** surface none Secondary Wave Mean Period [s]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">UGRDsfc<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>0,1,0<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>0,2,2 ** surface none U-Component of Wind [m/s]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">VGRDsfc<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>0,1,0<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>0,2,3 ** surface none V-Component of Wind [m/s]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">WDIRsfc<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>0,1,0<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>0,2,0 ** surface none Wind Direction (from which blowing) [deg]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">WVPERsfc<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>0,1,0<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>10,0,6 ** surface none Mean Period of Wind Waves [s]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">ENDVARS</div><div style="min-height: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Piece of code for lat/lon -29 16.25</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-----------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>fmt2 = "%-.2f"</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>'d dirswsfc'</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>val=subwrd(result,4)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>ln=sublin(result,1)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>say ln</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>if (val = "9.999e+20" | val = "1e+20")</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>val = "N/A"</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>else</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>rc = math_format(fmt2,val)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">*** the segmentation fault occurs on line above due to a bad number in val</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>endif</div></blockquote></div><br><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="word-spacing: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; text-transform: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="word-spacing: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; text-transform: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="word-spacing: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; text-transform: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2; "><div>--</div><div>Jennifer M. Adams</div><div>IGES/COLA</div><div>4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302</div><div>Calverton, MD 20705</div><div><a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org">jma@cola.iges.org</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span></div><br></div></blockquote></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>--</div><div>Jennifer M. Adams</div><div>IGES/COLA</div><div>4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302</div><div>Calverton, MD 20705</div><div><a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org">jma@cola.iges.org</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span> </div><br></body></html>