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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EL link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Thanks to Rick, we narrowed the problem down to a broken ncl-ncarg package distribution which I installed using the Ubuntu Software.<br>It is missing several files like ftfonts in directory /usr/lib/ncarg/database/<br>It is a documented issue (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ncl/+bug/1808217).<br><br>Cheers,<br>Orestis<br><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>On 21/3/2019 5:19 </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>ì</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>ì</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>., Orestis Speyer wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Kind reminder,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>I looked further and I am thinking that perhaps it is the fault in the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>naming of the rangs and gshhs files,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>in particular the parentheses "(" which is a special character and I think<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Ubuntu has trouble with.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>I have successfully run the script in:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Distributor ID: RedHatEnterpriseServer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Description: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.9 (Santiago)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Release: 6.9<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Codename: Santiago<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>I get the segmentation error when running in Ubuntu:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Distributor ID: Ubuntu<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Description: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Release: 18.04<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Codename: bionic<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>the rangs directory looks like this:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 89496428 </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>ÌáÀ</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> 13 1997 'gshhs(0).rim'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20775224 </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>ÌáÀ</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> 13 1997 'gshhs(1).rim'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5099196 </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>ÌáÀ</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> 13 1997 'gshhs(2).rim'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1109192 </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>ÌáÀ</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> 13 1997 'gshhs(3).rim'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 170948 </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>ÌáÀ</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> 13 1997 'gshhs(4).rim'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 259200 </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Ìáñ</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> 19 16:48 'rangs(0).cat'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6518664 </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Ìáñ</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> <span lang=EN-US> 19 16:48 'rangs(0).cel'<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 259200 </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Ìáñ</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> 19 16:48 'rangs(1).cat'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5945492 </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Ìáñ</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> 19 16:48 'rangs(1).cel'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 259200 </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Ìáñ</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> 19 16:48 'rangs(2).cat'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4062215 </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Ìáñ</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> 19 16:48 'rangs(2).cel'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 259200 </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Ìáñ</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> 19 16:48 'rangs(3).cat'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3398642 </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Ìáñ</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> 19 16:48 'rangs(3).cel'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 259200 </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Ìáñ</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> 19 16:48 'rangs(4).cat'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3045848 </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Ìáñ</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> 19 16:48 'rangs(4).cel'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The single quotes in the filenames come automatically (for Ubuntu to be able<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>to handle them) when I download them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>I know that NCL is looking for this file because when I have HighRes and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>when I deliberately export NCARG_RANGS to a different directory, I get<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>fatal:MapRGDHDrawMapList: MDRGOL/MDRGOF - ERROR OPENING RANGS/GSHHS CAT.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>When I export NCARG_RANGS= /usr/share/ncarg/database/rangs I get the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>segmentation fault.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Is it an environment thing? Is it Is it a permission thing? I tried running<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>with sudo to no avail. I don't know how NCL "reads" these files. Final note,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Using ls I get:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>ls gshhs(0).rim<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>with quotes:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>ls 'gshhs(0).rim'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>'gshhs(0).rim'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Thanks again for your time,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Orestis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>-----Original Message-----<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>From: ospeyer [mailto:ospeyer@noa.gr] <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 6:09 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>To: ncl-talk@ucar.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Subject: Segmentation fault (core dumped) when mpDataBaseVersion =<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>"HighRes", new NCL build on Ubuntu<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Deal all,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>I just installed NCL 6.4.0 through the Ubuntu Software in my desktop within<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>an Ubuntu virtual machine with 5GB of RAM.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>I am trying to run a script (which runs successfully on a 4gb laptop, with a<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>virtual machine of 2GB of RAM) but I get a Segmentation fault (core<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>dumped).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>When I use mpDataBaseVersion = "LowRes" it works fine, although no colors<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>appear on my contour plot (the label bar has colours just fine).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Is it possible that I run out of memory for some reason? I am suspicious of<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>the new build. I followed the rangs procedure for high resolution<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>coastlines. I do not know if it's important but the NCARG_ROOT is not set as<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>in the default that I find in the NCL site. My suspicion increases due to<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>the lack of colour in the contour (I'm using<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>gsn_define_colormap(wks,"gui_default")).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>In my script I load:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>load "/usr/share/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>load "/usr/share/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_csm.ncl"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>load "/usr/share/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/contributed.ncl"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>load "./shapefile_utils.ncl" ; This I need for shapefiles<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>I found a relative thread in the ncl-archive under "[ncl-talk]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>mpDataBaseVersion ="HighRes" " but there was no solution therein.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Cheers and thanks for your time,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Orestis Speyer, MSc<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>