<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi John,<br><br></div>That's certainly an odd behavior that I don't think we've seen before. A couple of things come to mind:<br><br></div>- NCL 6.3.0 is the latest rev -- if possible, I'd recommend installing it <br></div>- What are your system characteristics, and what NCL binary did you install:<br></div> i.e, what do these commands report?<br> <br></div> uname -a<br></div> gcc -v<br><br></div>- Finally, if all else fails, you might run this command:<br><br></div> strace ncl >nclStarupTrace 2>&1 <br><br></div> and send me the resultant file nclStarupTrace; perhaps we can tell where/why the hang occurs.<br><br></div>I wish I had a better answer...<br></div>Rick<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 6:56 AM, John Kerfoot <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkerfoot@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkerfoot@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Good Morning,<div><br></div><div>I've installed NCL version 6.2.0 here:</div><div><br></div><div><div>kerfoot@kerfoot-new: /opt</div><div>$ ls -l</div><div>total 24</div><div>drwxrwxr-x 5 root root 4096 May 13 2014 canopy</div><div>drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 13 2014 google</div><div>drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 13 2014 MATLAB</div><div>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 May 13 2014 ncl -> ncl_ncarg-6.2.0/</div><div>drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 May 13 2014 ncl_ncarg-6.2.0</div><div>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 May 13 2014 nco -> nco-4.4.3</div><div>drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 May 13 2014 nco-4.4.3</div><div>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 May 13 2014 netcdf -> netcdf-4.3.2</div><div>drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 May 13 2014 netcdf-4.3.2</div></div><div><br></div><div>and have set the NCARG_ROOT=/opt/ncl</div><div><br></div><div>which has the following contents:</div><div><br></div><div><div>$ cd ncl</div><div>/opt/ncl</div><div>kerfoot@kerfoot-new: /opt/ncl</div><div>$ ls -l</div><div>total 12</div><div>drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 13 2014 bin</div><div>drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 13 2014 include</div><div>drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 13 2014 lib</div></div><div><br></div><div>I've added /opt/ncl/bin to my $PATH.</div><div><br></div><div>When I try to startup ncl, it begins to startup, but hangs without providing me an interactive prompt:</div><div><br></div><div><div>$ which ncl</div><div>/usr/bin/ncl</div><div>kerfoot@kerfoot-new: /opt/ncl</div><div>$ ncl</div><div> Copyright (C) 1995-2014 - All Rights Reserved</div><div> University Corporation for Atmospheric Research</div><div> NCAR Command Language Version 6.2.0</div><div> The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.</div><div> See <a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/" target="_blank">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/</a> for more details.</div></div><div><br></div><div>and I have to hit ^C to exit.</div><div><br></div><div>Any ideas/help much appreciated.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>John</div><div><br></div></font></span></div>
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