Troubleshooting CIME

The testing suite for the Common Infrastructure for Modeling the Earth (CIME) doesn’t seem to comprehensively cover the use cases we’ve been conducting. Thus there are many instances in which builds and case submissions fail for reasons that are seemingly perplexing. This document explains a subset of these failures.

input_data.checksum.dat

Error

Trying to download file: '../inputdata_checksum.dat' to path [...]/run/inputdata_checksum.dat.raw'

This error seems to be caused by the configuration of the wget address path (which gets called since the globus-url-copy tool isn’t installed on either Cori or Shaheen II) in $CIMEROOT/config/cesm/config_inputdata.xml:

<server>
  <protocol>wget</protocol>
  <address>ftp://ftp.cgd.ucar.edu/cesm/inputdata</address>
  <user>anonymous</user>
  <password>user@example.edu</password>
  <checksum>../inputdata_checksum.dat</checksum>
</server>

The address path should be appended with a trailing slash ftp://ftp.cgd.ucar.edu/cesm/inputdata/ since the checksum path starts with ../inputdata_checksum.dat.