[ncl-install] warning:TextItem:libncarg Error:PLCHHQ/PCFRED - ERROR READING PWRITX DATABASE

[Mary Haley]

On Feb 21, 2014, at 10:07 AM, Ciara O'Hara <cohara1985 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Mary, 
> 
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> I noticed the "/usr/share" issue and changed the path accordingly, but that didn't help. I also didn't have any other versin of NCL/NCARG on the system.

It's likely that NCARG_ROOT is just not set then, or set incorrectly. If you type:

which ncl

this will echo something like

/usr/local/bin

If you remove the "/bin" part, this gives you the value you likely need to use for NCARG_ROOT

export NCARG_ROOT=/usr/local

--Mary

> I have since installed CentOS and downloaded ncl-6.1.2 and it's working perfectly. 
> 
> Thank you again,
> 
> Ciara 
> 
> > Subject: Re: [ncl-install] warning:TextItem:libncarg Error:PLCHHQ/PCFRED - ERROR READING PWRITX DATABASE
> > From: haley at ucar.edu
> > Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 09:29:58 -0700
> > CC: ncl-install at ucar.edu
> > To: cohara1985 at hotmail.com
> > 
> > Ciara,
> > 
> > We are not the ones who provide the "yum" version of NCL, so I can't say for certain why it's not working.
> > 
> > However, the error is indicating that one or more of your environment variables did not get set correctly. I believe the "yum" installation puts the NCL supplemental files in a "/usr/share" directory, and not the "/usr/lib" directory like the error is indicating below that it is looking in.
> > 
> > There might be one of two issues here:
> > 
> > 1. You already had an installation of NCL/NCARG on your system, and the some of the old environment variables may be overwriting the new ones.
> > 
> > 2. The new environment variables are not getting set for some reason.
> > 
> > With the "yum" installation, it should be setting the NCARG_ROOT environment variable, and *maybe* the NCARG_NCARG environment.
> > 
> > To help me debug this, what does the following report:
> > 
> > which ncl
> > env | grep NCARG
> > ncargpath lib
> > ncargpath ncarg
> > ncl -V
> > 
> > --Mary
> > 
> > 
> > On Feb 21, 2014, at 8:41 AM, Ciara O'Hara <cohara1985 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi all, I am getting the error message above (along with a whole stream of others-see below) when I go to create a contour map plot. I have run the same script on a different machine (with a different version of linux) and it works perfectly, so it isn't the script. I suspect it has something to do with my installation of ncl on this operating system.
> > > 
> > > I am running fedora 20 and installed ncl by just using: sudo yum install ncl. I'll post the errors in full below (I get the first two many times, too many to count!):
> > > 
> > > warning:TextItem:libncarg Error:PLCHHQ/PCFRED - ERROR READING PWRITX DATABASE
> > > warning:TextItem:libncarg Error:PLCHHQ/PCFOPN - ERROR OPENING PWRITX DATA FILE /usr/lib/ncarg/database/PlotcharData
> > > usr/lib/ncarg/database/PlotcharData
> > > fatal:MapV40DHClassPartInit: cannot open map data file: NhlMapData
> > > fatal:MapV40DHClassPartInit: error initializing map outline records
> > > fatal:Unable to initialize layer-Can't Create
> > > fatal:Unable to access object with id:-4
> > > fatal:PID #-4 can't be found in NhlSetValues
> > > fatal:NhlGetValues:PID #-4 is invalid
> > > fatal:["Execute.c":8128]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 6492 in file /usr/share/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_csm.ncl
> > > 
> > > fatal:["Execute.c":8128]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 7313 in file /usr/share/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_csm.ncl
> > > 
> > > fatal:["Execute.c":8128]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 10515 in file /usr/share/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_csm.ncl
> > > 
> > > fatal:["Execute.c":8128]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 65 in file /home/cohara2/contour_map_script.ncl
> > > 
> > > Any help would be appreciated,
> > > 
> > > Best Regards,
> > > Ciara
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