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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Dear Rick,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Thanks for checking the script and data.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I actually have XQuartz installed. Just to clear all doubts, I have reinstalled and tried running the script again. It gives the same error message even with "png", "ps" and "pdf".</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">What could be the cause?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Thank you.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Best regards,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Imoleayo</div><div><br></div>
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On Tuesday, June 16, 2020, 08:54:48 PM GMT+2, Rick Brownrigg <brownrig@ucar.edu> wrote:
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<div><div id="yiv0734428493"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Imoleayo,</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>The plot runs just fine for me on my Mac. The fact that it's failing on your Mac but runs on Cheyenne, and the fact that the workstation type is X11, makes me think that perhaps you don't have XQuartz (the Mac X11 environment) installed on your Mac? Perhaps try changing the workstation type to "png" and see if you get plots on disk. (aside - I don't recall a SEGV being a failure-mode for this situation, but...?)<br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>XQuartz, if you decide you want/need it, can be obtained here:</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div> <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://www.xquartz.org/">https://www.xquartz.org/</a></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Hope that helps...</div><div>Rick<br clear="none"></div></div><br clear="none"><div class="yiv0734428493yqt2261285759" id="yiv0734428493yqt84485"><div class="yiv0734428493gmail_quote"><div class="yiv0734428493gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 12:32 PM gbode Imoleayo <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:gbodeimoleayo@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:gbodeimoleayo@yahoo.com">gbodeimoleayo@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="yiv0734428493gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div></div>
<div dir="ltr">Dear Rick,</div><div dir="ltr">Thanks for your swift response.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">I guess the error occurs when NCL runs the "wks= gsn_open_wks (.......)" on my local machine because I tried the same script and data on my Cheyenne environment and it worked fine. Perhaps this issue is peculiar to MacOSX Catalina. </div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Please kindly find attached the script and the zipped data.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Thank you.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Best regards,</div><div dir="ltr">Imoleayo</div>
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On Tuesday, June 16, 2020, 08:21:41 PM GMT+2, Rick Brownrigg <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:brownrig@ucar.edu" target="_blank" href="mailto:brownrig@ucar.edu">brownrig@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:
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<div><div id="yiv0734428493gmail-m_8719805698126017975yiv5641158706"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Well it's almost impossible to help without more information. What are you trying to do, what kind of file(s) are you using, and have you narrowed down the segment of your script where the SEGV occurs? <br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Regardless, NCL should not SEGV but fail more gracefully -- I'll look into it if you can send me your script and dataset(s) if they are not too large? I can't promise a fix, but I'll try to offer some sort of solution.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Rick</div><div><br clear="none"></div></div><br clear="none"><div><div id="yiv0734428493gmail-m_8719805698126017975yiv5641158706yqt13654"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 12:09 PM gbode Imoleayo via ncl-talk <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:ncl-talk@mailman.ucar.edu" target="_blank" href="mailto:ncl-talk@mailman.ucar.edu">ncl-talk@mailman.ucar.edu</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr">Dear NCL-Talk,</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">I am trying to run NCL on MacOSX Catalina but I get Segmentation fault 11(shown below).</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">"<div><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(59,35,34);background-color:rgb(215,211,183);"><span><span> </span>Copyright (C) 1995-2019 - All Rights Reserved</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(59,35,34);background-color:rgb(215,211,183);"><span><span> </span>University Corporation for Atmospheric Research</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(59,35,34);background-color:rgb(215,211,183);"><span><span> </span>NCAR Command Language Version 6.6.2</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(59,35,34);background-color:rgb(215,211,183);"><span><span> </span>The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(59,35,34);background-color:rgb(215,211,183);"><span><span> </span>See <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/</a> for more details.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(59,35,34);background-color:rgb(215,211,183);"><span>Segmentation fault: 11</span></p></div>"</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Please kindly assist.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Thank you.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Best regards,</div><div dir="ltr">Imoleayo</div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br clear="none">
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