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On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, C. Vandersip wrote: > Ok, looks like the problem may have been with using the newer version of > gdbm (v1.8.0). I've "downgraded" to v1.7.3 and so far all is well. > Thanks again to Tom McDermott for his input. I'll activate this for > Weather as soon as I'm satisfied it's stable. Chris, I was in meetings all day yesterday so I didn't get a chance to respond. It was a good idea to post your question to ldm-users, actually I didn't know the problem was with gdbm v1.8.0. Hopefully this solved your problem and now we have the answer in the ldm support achives for future reference. Robb... > > Looking on the bright side of all this troubleshooting, there's nothing > like a good "incident" to improve one's scripting skills. > > Regards, > > Chris > > > On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Tom McDermott wrote: > > > On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, C. Vandersip wrote: > > > > > On a Solaris 2.5 Sparc platform, after compiling ldm-5.0.8 to incorporate > > > gdbm (v1.8.0) for use by pqsurf in creating DBFILEs for METAR products for > > > viewing with Peter Neilley's WEATHER program (v4.9.1; see the README file > > > in Weather source for a description of how to set this up) , I was quite > > > happy with the results until about 15 hours later, pqsurf died with a > > > "child terminated by signal 11" message. I've tried increasing pqsurf > > > queue size, erasing/recreating the queue...but even though it will start > > > back up upon and ldm restart, I can never be sure how long it will be > > > before it dies again. Sometimes it's an hour, sometimes 10 hours. Always, > > > it dies again, while ldmd itself keeps on chugging. > > > > Chris, > > > > We experienced the exact same problem after compiling ldm 5.0.8 with gdbm > > 1.8.0 (on Sparc Solaris 2.6). I followed Robb's Kambic's instructions at > > > > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/glimpse/ldm/3185 > > > > and was able to get it to work. Notice he used gdbm v. 1.7.3 rather than > > v. 1.8.0 . So using the earlier version seemed to resolve the problem; > > pqsurf hasn't crashed on me since. ( I have no idea why gdbm 1.8.0 causes > > a problem w/ pqsurf.) gdbm-1.7.3 should still be available at all the gnu > > archive sites. If you can't find it let me know and I will make it > > available on anon ftp. > > > > Tom > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Tom McDermott Email: address@hidden > > System Administrator Phone: (716) 395-5718 > > Earth Sciences Dept. Fax: (716) 395-2416 > > SUNY College at Brockport > > > > > > > > ############################################################### > # Chris Vandersip # > # Computer Research Specialist/Dept. Sysadmin # > # Rm. 024, Dept. of Meteorology, Florida State University # > # address@hidden (850)644-2522 # > ############################################################### > =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================