[ncl-install] Problem runing ncl on Ubuntu 18.04

[Mary Haley]

Hi Diego,

I'm guessing there's something wrong with your environment . The
information you provided looks mostly correct, but this part confuses me:

cfanprod at prod2:~$ ls /usr/lib/ncarg/data
data/     database/
cfanprod at prod2:~$ ls /$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/database/

The /usr/lib/ncarg/data directory should NOT have "data" and "database" in
it. It should have these directories:

asc/ bin/ cdf/ grb/ hdf/ nug/ shp/

The listing of $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/database looks correct but I'm
wondering if you have multiple NCARG_XXXX environment variables set that
are incorrect?

Can you type the following and email all of the output back to
ncl-install at ucar.edu:

which ncl
ncl -V
env | grep NCARG

If the "env" command shows any environment variables called NCARG_NCARG or
NCARG_LIB, then this is probably the source of your problem.  The only
environment that really should be required is NCARG_ROOT.

--Mary


On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 8:46 PM Diego Remolina via ncl-install <
ncl-install at ucar.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Trying to setup and run ncl-ncarg which comes directly from the ubuntu
> repo, but it fails.
>
> cfanprod at prod2:~$ which ncl
> /usr/bin/ncl
> cfanprod at prod2:~$ ncl -V
> 6.4.0
> cfanprod at prod2:~$ ncl
>  Copyright (C) 1995-2017 - All Rights Reserved
>  University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
>  NCAR Command Language Version 6.4.0
>  The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
>  See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
> ncl 0>
>
> cfanprod at prod2:~$ echo $NCARG_ROOT
> /usr
> cfanprod at prod2:~$ ls /usr/lib/ncarg/data
> data/     database/
> cfanprod at prod2:~$ ls /$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/database/
> Earth..1.areas  Earth..3.areas  ezmap_area_ids    EzmapAreaInfo.US
> EzmapOutlines.PS  pwritdata  rgb.txt
> Earth..1.lines  Earth..3.lines  EzmapAreaInfo.CO  ezmapdata
> EzmapOutlines.US  ranfdata
> Earth..2.areas  Earth..4.areas  EzmapAreaInfo.PO  EzmapOutlines.CO
> NhlMapData        rgb.dir
> Earth..2.lines  Earth..4.lines  EzmapAreaInfo.PS  EzmapOutlines.PO
> PlotcharData      rgb.pag
>
> So far, everything looks fine, I can run one of the example files:
>
> cfanprod at prod2:~$ wget
> https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/Scripts/maponly_3.ncl
> cfanprod at prod2:~$ ncl maponly_3.ncl
>  Copyright (C) 1995-2017 - All Rights Reserved
>  University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
>  NCAR Command Language Version 6.4.0
>  The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
>  See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
> cfanprod at prod2:~$ ls
> CHX     cronback.txt  DY             LOGS            map.000002.png
> maponly.png  MDZ  SE
> COMMON  Documents     java.log.3981  map.000001.png  maponly_3.ncl
> maptest.ncl  MN
>
> However, when trying to run another, the program crashes:
> cfanprod at prod2:~$ wget
> https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/Scripts/maponly_9.ncl
>
> cfanprod at prod2:~$ ncl maponly_9.ncl
>  Copyright (C) 1995-2017 - All Rights Reserved
>  University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
>  NCAR Command Language Version 6.4.0
>  The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
>  See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
> fatal:MapV41DHInitialize: dynamic memory allocation error:[errno=12]
> fatal:MapV41DHInitialize: error initializing map outline records
>  ERROR    2 IN MPLNRI/MDLNRI - Can't open the ".names" file
>  ERROR    1 IN MPSETR - UNCLEARED PRIOR ERROR
>  ERROR    1 IN MAPPOS - UNCLEARED PRIOR ERROR
>  ERROR    1 IN MAPSTI - UNCLEARED PRIOR ERROR
>  ERROR    1 IN MAPROJ - UNCLEARED PRIOR ERROR
>  ERROR    2 IN MAPSET/MDPSET - UNCLEARED PRIOR ERROR
> fatal:MapSetTrans: error initializing map: MAPINT - UNCLEARED PRIOR ERROR
> fatal:(null): Error setting transformation
> fatal:MapPlotSetValues: error managing TickMarks
> warning:["SetValues.c":474]:SetValuesChild never occurred on
> map.PlotManager: Error in mapPlotClass
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> I have seen some similar issues in the mailing list, but there was no
> resolution. Any ideas how to fix the problem?
>
> Diego
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