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[GEMPAK #KRY-826997]: garp in 5.10.4 crashes on simple plots



David,

I'll take a look. Usually when crashes are this blatent, it is a
change in the gemlib api that is missing in Garp, or a 32/64 bit problem.

Thanks for point this out. I'll get back to you this afternoon....

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User SUpport


> Hello,
> 
> Garp has always been a flaky program, with random crashes, but in
> 5.10.4 it's nearly unusable.  You can get the following:
> 
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 
> extremely easily using the GFS003 grids and simply trying to make a
> horizontal plot of Mixing Ratio, MIXR, at 500 mb for a single hour.
> Same thing happens when trying to plot Temp_F at 500 mb, or when
> plotting Absolute voriticity advection in the 850-500 mb layer under
> the HAS entry in the Scalar menu.  I have tried 'limit stacksize 900M'
> and 'unlimit stacksize' but neither helps.
> 
> I have confirmed this with your binaries as well as my own, and have
> confirmed that garp under 5.9.4 works fine with these grids which were
> created with dcgrib2 (version 5.10.4) like this:
> 
> set i = /home/disk/data/conduit/gfs.2007110700/gfs.t00z.pgrbf06
> dcgrib2 -d - -m 20000 /tmp/gfs/2007110700_gfs003.gem < $i
> 
> 
> David
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: KRY-826997
Department: Support GEMPAK
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed