Glibc errors with GEMPAK

[Ben Cotton]

On 8/1/07 12:03 PM, "Ben Cotton" <bcotton at purdue.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> We've recently upgraded all of our Linux boxes from FC1 (eek!) to RHEL4.
> Recently, users have noticed that nmap2 crashes with a glibc error.
> Googling mostly suggested upgrading glibc.  We currently have the most
> recent RedHat-approved glibc installed (glibc-2.3.4-2.36).  I tried updating
> to a more recent glibc (2.3.6-3) to no avail.  We've tried GEMPAK 5.9.1,
> 5.9.2, and 5.10.2 (using the Linux binaries provided by Unidata) to no
> avail.  All of the other NTL programs (Garp, Nalarm, etc) work, just not
> nmap2.  The error message received is below.  Any suggestions?
> 
Evidently, I was playing with too many different builds of GEMPAK yesterday
and got my environment variables crossed.  Using GEMPAK 5.9.1, we're fine
and dandy, so I guess we'll stick with that until Red Hat sees fit to
approve a newer version of glibc.


Thanks,
BC

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