[ncl-talk] Possible bug in NCL 6.4.0

Guido Cioni guidocioni at gmail.com
Fri Oct 20 06:56:44 MDT 2017


Thanks Rick,
I tried on both on the cluster and on my local machine (osx) and had the same error. I have to say they are both 6.4.0.
Cheers

> On 20. Oct 2017, at 14:44, Rick Brownrigg <brownrig at ucar.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The test script runs just fine, without warning/error, with my development version of NCL.  I'll give it a try with the 6.4.0 snapshot when I get into the office.
> 
> FWIW...
> Rick
> 
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 4:55 AM, Marston Johnston <shejo284 at gmail.com <mailto:shejo284 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> There is still a lot of debugging you can do yourself to help with this situation. It is a very step to assume at this point that there is a bug in NCL.
> 
> The error code tells you where the problem lies, and you can examine the data for both NCL versions to see what has changed, or at least to see what the data looks like.
> 
> This is the golden rule: know your data.  
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> From: ncl-talk <ncl-talk-bounces at ucar.edu <mailto:ncl-talk-bounces at ucar.edu>> on behalf of Guido Cioni <guidocioni at gmail.com <mailto:guidocioni at gmail.com>>
> Date: Friday, 20 October 2017 at 12:47
> To: ncl-talk <ncl-talk at ucar.edu <mailto:ncl-talk at ucar.edu>>
> Subject: [ncl-talk] Possible bug in NCL 6.4.0
> 
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not sure what is happening here. Running the same script on 6.3.0 works just fine while on 6.4.0 it produces an error inside the NCL code, which I'm not able to debug (as I don't know the original code that much). Maybe Mary or Dennis can take a look.
> 
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> fatal:Subscript out of range, error in subscript #0
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> fatal:An error occurred reading tmp_names
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> fatal:["Execute.c":8640]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 1251 in file /sw/rhel6-x64/ncl-6.4.0-gccsys/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/utilities.ncl
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>  
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> fatal:["Execute.c":8640]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 1275 in file /sw/rhel6-x64/ncl-6.4.0-gccsys/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/utilities.ncl
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> fatal:["Execute.c":8640]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 1314 in file /sw/rhel6-x64/ncl-6.4.0-gccsys/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/utilities.ncl
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> fatal:["Execute.c":8640]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 1721 in file /sw/rhel6-x64/ncl-6.4.0-gccsys/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/utilities.ncl
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> fatal:["Execute.c":8640]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 5457 in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_csm.ncl
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> fatal:["Execute.c":8640]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 6079 in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_csm.ncl
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> fatal:["Execute.c":8640]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 158 in file statistics.ncl
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> Since I can switch easily from 6.4. to 6.3. on the cluster that's not a big issue for now but I just thought to bring it to the attention. I'm attaching a test code and files. 
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> Cheers 
> 
> 
> Guido Cioni
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