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Chris, one more thing- double check that you don't have a file called gplt in your working directory that would be confused with $GEMEXE/gplt. This is more likely to occur when you use device drivers like "gif" and you have a directory called "gif". Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support >From: address@hidden (Chris Hennon) >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200105071618.f47GIbp13844 >Steve - > >I've run into a curious problem. I'm trying to run "oabsnd" for just one >level and one variable and the program exits with a NOPROC - Nonexistent >executable and "Could not fork" errors. I think I have plenty of swap >space: > >swap -s >total: 67792k bytes allocated + 167728k reserved = 235520k used, 159608k >available > >There are no rogue processes around that I can see. There are no dead >message queues. In the past, I have run oabsnd under the same conditions >without a problem, even with more levels and more variables. The support >archives all seem to indicate a problem with either swap space or orphaned >processes but it doesn't appear that I have those issues. Any ideas? >Thanks. > >Chris > >================================================ >| Chris Hennon Ohio State University | >| Tropical Meteorology address@hidden | >| | >| Dept of Geography Office: 1155 Derby Hall | >| 1036 Derby Hall Phone : (614) 292-2704 | >| Columbus, OH 43210 Fax : (614) 292-6213 | >================================================ >