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Ward Also, if you change the internal write format to write(unit=myattr,fmt='(a6,i0)') 'myattr',i (replace i4.4 with i0) such that the myattr string will look like myattr1 myattr2 . . myattr10 myattr30 etc. ie the zeros (0001,0030 etc) are removed from the i4.4 descriptor values and the spaces removed if you use the i4 descriptor values the error goes away. Good luck with this one cause I haven't a clue as to what it could be. Never seen a case like this where filling in space in a string with 0's caused something to gag. RW On 03/09/2016 01:59 PM, Ward Fisher wrote:
My initial response went to Alison only, by accident; my apologies. I’ve been able to observe the issue in a C program provided by Alison, so that rules out a Fortran-specific cause. I’ve opened a ticket on GitHub for this issue, viewable at https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/233 . Searching the web for |HDF5: infinite loop closing library| turns up a number of other instances of this happening. Interestingly enough, when building a version of hdf5 1.8.16 for debugging, the issue itself disappeared. I’m going to try to narrow down which of the configure options (|--enable-codestack|, |--enable-debug=all|, |--enable-using-memchecker|) resulted in the issue resolving itself. I’ll be posting my findings at the GitHub issue linked above as well as following up here once there’s a resolution, but the short answer (as has already been pointed out) is that Alison isn’t doing anything wrong in the test (although using |redef| isn’t a bad idea). -Ward On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 9:57 PM, rweed <rweed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:rweed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: Alison If you change write(unit=myattr,fmt='(a6,i4.4)') 'myattr',i to write(unit=myattr,fmt='(a6,i4)') 'myattr',i the error disappears after the write with your format, myattr looks something like myattr0001 etc If you replace i4.4 with i4 myattr looks like myattr 1 (spaces instead of 0's I'm not sure why this would make a difference but it does. RW On 03/08/2016 02:19 PM, Alison Walker wrote: Roy, thanks for your response. I tried adding the call to nf90_redef after the open, as you suggest, and then re-write the attributes, but I still get the same error. Alison On 3/7/2016 9:36 PM, Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal wrote: Hi Alison: I am not certain of this, but nc_create and nc_open behave differently. nc_create creates the file and puts you in define mode, nc_open does not put you in define mode. I don’t know what is magic about 30 attributes, perhaps that is what it takes to exceed the global attributes space because the history changes, but I wonder what happens if after the nc_open you call NF90_REDEF and then rewrite the global attributes. As I said, I could be wrong, but it would be easy enough to test. -Roy On Mar 7, 2016, at 7:01 PM, Alison Walker <postings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:postings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: Hi netcdf folks, I'm getting this error when changing the values of global attributes in a netcdf4 file using the fortran interface: HDF5: infinite loop closing library D,G,A,S,T,F,FD,P,FD,P,FD,P,E,E,SL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL Here is a little test program that illustrates the problem. It first creates a netcdf file and writes some global attributes, then tries to write them again after closing and re-opening the file. Interestingly, if the number of attributes is less than 30, there is no error. If the number is 30, the error occurs. I'm using netcdf 4.3.0, netcdf fortran 4.2 and hdf5 1.8.16 on Linux x86_64. program tester use netcdf implicit none integer, parameter :: n_attrs = 30 integer :: iok, ncid, varid, i character*10 :: myattr ! Create the file and write global attrs iok = nf90_create('tester.nc <http://tester.nc>',NF90_HDF5,ncid) print *,'create iok=',iok do i=1,n_attrs write(unit=myattr,fmt='(a6,i4.4)') 'myattr',i iok = nf90_put_att(ncid,NF90_GLOBAL,myattr,i) print *,i,' put iok=',iok enddo iok = nf90_close(ncid) print *,'close iok=',iok ! Open the file again and re-write global attrs iok = nf90_open('tester.nc <http://tester.nc>',NF90_WRITE,ncid) print *,'open iok=',iok do i=1,n_attrs write(unit=myattr,fmt='(a6,i4.4)') 'myattr',i iok = nf90_put_att(ncid,NF90_GLOBAL,myattr,i) print *,i,' put iok=',iok enddo iok = nf90_close(ncid) print *,'close iok=',iok end program tester When I run this test program with 30 attributes I get this error result: create iok= 0 1 put iok= 0 2 put iok= 0 3 put iok= 0 4 put iok= 0 5 put iok= 0 6 put iok= 0 7 put iok= 0 8 put iok= 0 9 put iok= 0 10 put iok= 0 11 put iok= 0 12 put iok= 0 13 put iok= 0 14 put iok= 0 15 put iok= 0 16 put iok= 0 17 put iok= 0 18 put iok= 0 19 put iok= 0 20 put iok= 0 21 put iok= 0 22 put iok= 0 23 put iok= 0 24 put iok= 0 25 put iok= 0 26 put iok= 0 27 put iok= 0 28 put iok= 0 29 put iok= 0 30 put iok= 0 close iok= 0 open iok= 0 1 put iok= 0 2 put iok= 0 3 put iok= 0 4 put iok= 0 5 put iok= 0 6 put iok= 0 7 put iok= 0 8 put iok= 0 9 put iok= 0 10 put iok= 0 11 put iok= 0 12 put iok= 0 13 put iok= 0 14 put iok= 0 15 put iok= 0 16 put iok= 0 17 put iok= 0 18 put iok= 0 19 put iok= 0 20 put iok= 0 21 put iok= 0 22 put iok= 0 23 put iok= 0 24 put iok= 0 25 put iok= 0 26 put iok= 0 27 put iok= 0 28 put iok= 0 29 put iok= 0 30 put iok= 0 close iok= 0 HDF5: infinite loop closing library D,G,A,S,T,F,FD,P,FD,P,FD,P,E,E,SL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL,FL Can anyone help me to understand why this error is occurring when re-writing the attributes?is it a bug with netcdf/hdf or am I doing something wrong? 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