[ncl-install] floating exception with ncl 5.2.1

[Mary Haley]

Dear Johnny,

Please see this posting:

http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Support/install_archives/2010/0140.html

I haven't had a chance to make this binary available on the ESG yet.

--Mary

On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 02:38:19 -0700
  Johnny Chang <Johnny.Chang at nasa.gov> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I downloaded ncl_ncarg-5.2.1.Linux_x86_64_nodap_gcc412.tar.gz on a 
>Xeon node
> running:
> 
> %uname -a
> Linux pfe6 2.6.16.60-0.42.5.03schamp-nasa #1 SMP Tue Nov 10 20:46:20 
>UTC 2009
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> and after untarring the file and running ncl, I get:
> 
> %./ncl
>Floating exception (core dumped)
> 
> Looking for a stack trace, I get:
> 
> %gdb ncl core.32297
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> This GDB was configured as "x86_64-suse-linux"...
> Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1".
> Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib64/libX11.so.6...done.
> Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib64/libX11.so.6
> Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib64/libXext.so.6...done.
> Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib64/libXext.so.6
> Reading symbols from /lib64/libm.so.6...done.
> Loaded symbols for /lib64/libm.so.6
> Reading symbols from /lib64/libdl.so.2...done.
> Loaded symbols for /lib64/libdl.so.2
> Reading symbols from /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6...done.
> Loaded symbols for /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6
> Reading symbols from /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1...done.
> Loaded symbols for /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1
> Reading symbols from /lib64/libc.so.6...done.
> Loaded symbols for /lib64/libc.so.6
> Reading symbols from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2...done.
> Loaded symbols for /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
> Core was generated by `./ncl'.
> Program terminated with signal 8, Arithmetic exception.
> #0  0x00002aaaaaab368f in do_lookup_x () from 
>/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
> (gdb) quit
> 
> Any ideas on how to fix this or do I need to build from source?
> 
> Thanks for any help on this,
> 
> Johnny
> -- 
> Johnny Chang
> 650-604-4356
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