On Thursday 14 August 2008, Vishal Mehta wrote: > Hello all, > > I've been having problems getting gdal to work with netcdf files. > > Using Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy) > 1. problems with libgdal 1.4.4 > First i tried the default gdal versions and libraries installed through > Synaptic Package Manager. The packaged version was gdal 1.4.4 All programs > that called gdal - Grass (using r.in.gdal), FWTools and gdalinfo, > gdal_translate etc - gave me a 'segmentation fault' > > I then looked up online and this bug report seemed to say it was a fault > with how gdal is packaged by Ubuntu - > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libgdal-grass/+bug/126916 > > and the recommendation was to compile from source. So then on to part 2 > > 2. I compiled from source gdal1.5.2 from > http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/DownloadSource > > using the following configure > > ./configure --with-netcdf=/usr/lib --with-libtiff=yes --with-geotiff=yes > --with-jpeg=/usr/lib --with-gif=/usr/lib --with-png=/ur/lib > --with-pg=/usr/bin/pg_config --with-libgrass=yes > > make > > sudo make install > > and made sure the libgdal link was referring to the new one. > > I tried > gdalinfo file.nc > > and again got 'segmentation fault' > > it works for other data types; only netcdf does not work (just like before > with gdal1.4.4) > > How can i fix this problem? I am not a linux expert by the way...perhaps > that was obvious:) > > The .nc file is very large - It iss climate projection data from the > California Climate Change Center. All i want to do is automate the > extraction of climate data for a set of points - am trying to do the > following: > > - import .nc data into Grass rasters or GeoTiff with bands = images on the > netcdf file - run a small script to extract climate data for vector point > data from each Grass raster/GTiff > > Please help, > Vishal > > FYI: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/downloads/gdal-1.5.2$ gdalinfo --version > GDAL 1.5.2, released 2008/05/29 > > >
Hi Vishal, Are you positive that you are invoking the latest gdal tools and libraries? I would remove any that you have installed via package manager (aptitude, etc.), and then run" gdal-config --version after removing the packaged version, it might also be a good idea to run ldconfig (as root). Cheers, Dylan -- Dylan Beaudette Soil Resource Laboratory http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/ University of California at Davis 530.754.7341 _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
