<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Aaron,<div><br></div><div>It seems the problem is random. For example, if 20z works but 21z doesn’t, I’ve tried to go run 20z again and it fails. Sometimes this is the error:</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">Failed to change directory.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">Failed to open file.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; min-height: 13px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">*** FATAL ERROR: could not open file: rtma2p5.t21z.2dvaranl_ndfd.grb2 ***</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; min-height: 13px;"><br></div><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.2dvaranl_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.22076.0.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><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">This is the code I am running:</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(83, 48, 225);"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(83, 48, 225);">#!/bin/csh -f</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;"><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(206, 121, 36);">set<span style="color: #000000"> yy=</span>`date -u +%Y`</div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(206, 121, 36);">set<span style="color: #000000"> mm=</span>`date -u +%m`</div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(206, 121, 36);">set<span style="color: #000000"> dd=</span>`date -u +%d`</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #ce7924">set</span> date=${yy}${mm}${dd}</div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #ce7924">cd</span> DATA</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">rm rtma2p5.t21z*</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">ftp -n <a href="http://ftpprd.ncep.noaa.gov">ftpprd.ncep.noaa.gov</a> <span style="color: #ce7924"><<ENDFTP2</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(195, 55, 32);"> user anonymous <a href="mailto:tjj5091@psu.edu">tjj5091@psu.edu</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(195, 55, 32);"> cd pub/data/nccf/com/rtma/para/rtma2p5.${date}</div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(195, 55, 32);"> bin</div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(195, 55, 32);"> get rtma2p5.t21z.2dvaranl_ndfd.grb2</div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(195, 55, 32);"> quit</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(206, 121, 36);">ENDFTP2</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">/home/meteo/tjj5091/GrADS/DATA/g2ctl rtma2p5.t21z.2dvaranl_ndfd.grb2 <span style="color: #ce7924">></span>rtma2p5.t21z.ctl</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">/usr/global/grads<span style="color: #c33720">-2</span>.<span style="color: #c33720">0</span>.<span style="color: #c33720">1</span>/bin/gribmap -i rtma2p5.t21z.ctl</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">/usr/global/grads<span style="color: #c33720">-2</span>.<span style="color: #c33720">0</span>.<span style="color: #c33720">1</span>/bin/grads -blc <span style="color: #c33720">"run t21z.gs"</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(206, 121, 36);">exit</div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(206, 121, 36);"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(206, 121, 36);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12px;">Thanks,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(206, 121, 36);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12px;">Tyler</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(206, 121, 36);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12px;"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(206, 121, 36);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12px;"><br></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;"><br></div><div><div>On Jan 3, 2014, at 7:26 PM, Perry, Aaron @ LSC <<a href="mailto:Aaron.Perry@lsc.vsc.edu">Aaron.Perry@lsc.vsc.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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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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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 02, 2014 7:53 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><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">Config: v2.0.1 little-endian readline printim grib2 netcdf hdf4-sds hdf5 opendap-grids,stn geotiff shapefile</div>
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<div>Any idea what is causing this?</div>
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