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Assuming that you're running the g2ctl/gribmap combo to display the downloaded GRIB2 file in GrADS, it sounds like there may be a coding error somewhere before or during when g2ctl or gribmap runs.
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF158837"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org [gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org] on behalf of Tyler Jankoski [tjj5091@psu.edu]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 02, 2014 7:53 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> gradsusr@gradsusr.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [gradsusr] Random Problem Running GrADS in Batch Mode<br>
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<div>I use GrADS to generate RTMA temperature graphics every hour. Cron runs my scripts and GrADS generates the graphics in batch mode.
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<div>About once or twice a day, the graphic output doesn’t work. I get this error message:</div>
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<div style="margin:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo">Failed to open file.</div>
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<div style="margin:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo">*** FATAL ERROR: could not open file: rtma2p5.t21z.2dvaranal_ndfd.grb2 ***</div>
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<div style="margin:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo">Big problem:</div>
<div style="margin:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> either rtma2p5.t21z.2dvaranal_ndfd.grb2 is missing or not a grib file</div>
<div style="margin:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> or wgrib2 is not on your path or wgrib2 is too old</div>
<div style="margin:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> or can not write to /tmp/g.28979.0.tmp (full disk or permissions).</div>
<div style="margin:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo">Open Error: missing XDEF record </div>
<div style="margin:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo">Open Error: missing YDEF record </div>
<div style="margin:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo">Open Error: missing ZDEF record </div>
<div style="margin:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo">Open Error: missing TDEF record </div>
<div style="margin:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo">Open Error: missing UNDEF record </div>
<div style="margin:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo">Open Error: missing DSET record </div>
<div style="margin:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo">Open Error: missing VARS record </div>
<div style="margin:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> The data file was not opened. </div>
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<div style="margin:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo">Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) Version 2.0.1</div>
<div style="margin:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo">Copyright (c) 1988-2011 by Brian Doty and the</div>
<div style="margin:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo">Institute for Global Environment and Society (IGES)</div>
<div style="margin:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo">GrADS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY</div>
<div style="margin:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo">See file COPYRIGHT for more information</div>
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<div style="margin:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo">Config: v2.0.1 little-endian readline printim grib2 netcdf hdf4-sds hdf5 opendap-grids,stn geotiff shapefile</div>
<div style="margin:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo">Issue 'q config' command for more detailed configuration information</div>
<div style="margin:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo">Landscape mode? ('n' for portrait): </div>
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<div>Any idea what is causing this?</div>
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<div>Thanks!</div>
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<div><b><font color="#941100">Tyler Jankoski<br>
</font></b><font color="#005493">Meteorology Major | The Pennsylvania State University<br>
Vice President | Campus Weather Service<br>
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<b>Web:</b> <a href="http://www.TylerJankoski.com" target="_blank">www.TylerJankoski.com</a><br>
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