Hi Paul, re: help out on McIDAS decoding issues on climate I logged into climate and found that the McIDAS XCD decoding processes were not running even though the LDM was running. After doing a quick check of McIDAS-related things in the 'ldm' account (e.g., does xcd_run exist in the PATH and is properly configured, etc.) and finding nothing obviously amiss, I decided to simply restart the LDM: <as 'ldm'> ldmadmin restart After doing this, the McIDAS-XCD decoders are running, and MD files are once again being created and filled: address@hidden:~/workdata$ ps -u ldm | grep \.k 1552 ? 00:00:00 readyradarkicko 11533 ? 00:00:00 ingetext.k 11585 ? 00:00:00 startxcd.k 11593 ? 00:00:01 ingetext.k 11594 ? 00:00:42 dmsfc.k 11595 ? 00:00:01 dmraob.k 11596 ? 00:09:19 dmsyn.k address@hidden:~/workdata$ dmap.k MDXX PERM SIZE LAST CHANGED FILENAME DIRECTORY ---- --------- ------------ -------- --------- -rw- 49913736 Jan 18 22:46 MDXX0007 /home/data/mcidas -rw- 50214936 Jan 18 22:56 MDXX0008 /home/data/mcidas -rw- 6671952 Jan 18 22:41 MDXX0017 /home/data/mcidas -rw- 5783600 Jan 18 22:42 MDXX0018 /home/data/mcidas -rw- 1458496 Jan 18 22:41 MDXX0027 /home/data/mcidas -rw- 1270480 Jan 18 22:42 MDXX0028 /home/data/mcidas -rw- 5030032 Jan 18 22:57 MDXX0037 /home/data/mcidas -rw- 4984996 Jan 18 22:57 MDXX0038 /home/data/mcidas -rw- 672408 Jan 18 22:41 MDXX0056 /home/data/mcidas -rw- 8849304 Jan 18 22:45 MDXX0057 /home/data/mcidas -rw- 8860224 Jan 18 22:45 MDXX0058 /home/data/mcidas -rw- 5229912 Jan 18 22:43 MDXX0059 /home/data/mcidas -rw- 5956520 Jan 18 22:41 MDXX0067 /home/data/mcidas -rw- 5956004 Jan 18 22:56 MDXX0068 /home/data/mcidas -rw- 15298560 Jan 18 22:54 MDXX0098 /home/data/mcidas -rw- 7070468 Jan 18 22:41 MDXX0108 /home/data/mcidas -rw- 14134616 Jan 18 22:41 MDXX0118 /home/data/mcidas 197356244 bytes in 17 files I don't know why the McIDAS-XCD decoders exited, but I did see some segmentation violations in the XCD log file, /home/mcidas/logs/XCD_START.LOG, before restarting the LDM. My best guess is that a slug of bad data was received and this caused the decoders to exit. Cheers, Tom -- **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: NHQ-322642 Department: Support McIDAS Priority: Normal Status: Closed
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