[ncl-talk] [Non-DoD Source] Re: ncl_filedump error

[Dylan White]

Kevin,

I am one of the other cases Rick mentioned.  I too am using Ubuntu 18.04,
and removing csh but leaving tcsh did indeed fix my issues as well.  Thanks
for letting us know you figured it out!  I know Ubuntu 18.04 will probably
soon be used by many NCL users, so this is great to know.

Regards,
Dylan

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 2:29 PM HAVENER, KEVIN F GS-12 USAF ACC 14 WS/WXED <
kevin.havener at us.af.mil> wrote:

> Installing tcsh solved the problem.  Mostly I use ncl on a Red Hat system,
> so I guess tcsh must be installed by default there.  If I “sudo apt-get
> install csh” I get a BSD variant of csh, which caused the core dump.
>
>
>
> I forgot to check before trying to install tcsh, but apt-get reported it
> as a NEW package (6.2.00-7) and updated the alternatives to use /bin/tcsh
> for /bin/csh. And I did a “which csh” which reported no csh.  I had already
> removed the bsd-csh (or csh-bsd) that core dumped.
>
>
>
> This particular machine has been upgraded several times on Ubuntu’s 6
> monthly release cycle, so they must have dropped tcsh since the last
> long-term release (16.04?) at least.  I don’t think I’ve used the conda
> version before on this machine., only the   Maybe the conda recipe needs to
> check for the presence of csh/tcsh?
>
>
>
> Kevin
>
>
>
> *From:* Rick Brownrigg <brownrig at ucar.edu>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 10, 2018 12:28 PM
> *To:* HAVENER, KEVIN F GS-12 USAF ACC 14 WS/WXED <kevin.havener at us.af.mil>
> *Cc:* Ncl-talk <ncl-talk at ucar.edu>
> *Subject:* [Non-DoD Source] Re: [ncl-talk] ncl_filedump error
>
>
>
> Yes to answer you primary question, ncl_filedump is inherently a C-shell
> script, and thus incompatible with bash. This is interesting however in
> that this is the second report that I'm aware of where  ncl_filedump has
> core dumped on an Ubuntu system.  I unfortunately was unable to duplicate
> the problem on an Ubuntu VM I installed for the purpose of investigating. I
> too had had to install csh, which I did by "apt-get install tcsh"   FWIW --
> on most modern Linux distros, "csh" is actually a symlink to the Tahoe
> shell "tcsh". Do you know if this was the case for you?
>
>
>
> Rick
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 8:21 AM HAVENER, KEVIN F GS-12 USAF ACC 14 WS/WXED
> <kevin.havener at us.af.mil> wrote:
>
> Trying to ncl_filedump a file to see what’s in it.  I get “/bin/csh: bad
> interpreter: No such file or directory”
>
>
>
> Of course not, it’s Ubuntu 18.04 (bash) and a conda installed ncl 6.5.0.
> Installing csh (csh-bsd) results in a core dump.  Is ncl_filedump truly
> dependent on /bin/csh?
>
>
>
> Ncdump will dump the file just fine.  What am I missing?
>
>
>
> Kevin Havener
>
>
>
>
>
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*J. Dylan White*
Ph.D. Student, Atmospheric Sciences
N.C. State University
B.S. Physics & B.S. Mathematics
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