Problem of showing land diagnostics on firefox

[yalingliu]

Dear all,

I'm running the land diagnostics following the instructions from the CTSM tutorial (http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/events/2019/ctsm/files/practical21-oleson.pdf). It went well until the last step, which is to show the diagnostics on my local terminal. I use Mac laptop, and I do have XQuartz installed. Can anyone give me some guidance or hints to fix this problem? Thanks in advance!

The error message is as below:
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(NPL) <my username>@cheyenne4:/glade/scratch/<my username>/diagnostics-output/lnd/diag/I1850CLM50_001-obs.2_5> Unable to init server: Broadway display type not supported: cheyenne4:15.0

Error: cannot open display: cheyenne4:15.0

 

[yalingliu]

By the way, the error message is shown after I run the command 'firefox setsIndex.html &'.

 

[oleson]

I doubt this is related to the diagnostics themselves, it's something related to your X11 forwarding on your Mac. I think I would try a tech forum (e.g., Stack Overflow - Where Developers Learn, Share, & Build Careers).

 

[yalingliu]

I doubt this is related to the diagnostics themselves, it's something related to your X11 forwarding on your Mac. I think I would try a tech forum (e.g., Stack Overflow - Where Developers Learn, Share, & Build Careers).

Hi Keith,

Thanks for your reply. I used the xterm terminal of Xquartz rather than my Mac terminal, and it worked. The thing is the response of the land diagnostics webpage is really slow, is there a way to speed it up?

Thanks,
Yaling

 

[oleson]

You could try using the "copy_html" utility to post your diagnostics to a web server, instead of viewing it from cheyenne.
Or tar up the directory and copy it to a web server.
For example, we can post our diagnostics to an external web server:

CESM Diagnostics

Diagnostic files for CESM organized by compset, casename, and component

webext.cgd.ucar.edu

 

[yalingliu]

You could try using the "copy_html" utility to post your diagnostics to a web server, instead of viewing it from cheyenne.
Or tar up the directory and copy it to a web server.
For example, we can post our diagnostics to an external web server:

CESM Diagnostics

Diagnostic files for CESM organized by compset, casename, and component

webext.cgd.ucar.edu

Hi Keith,

I have encountered problems when I tried using the "copy_html" utility to copy all the diagnostics files to the remote web server brunt.cgd.ucar.edu (as indicated in NCAR/CESM_postprocessing). Here are the problems:

1. When I run the file 'mk_user_ssh_keys.sh', it asks for the target host, shall I use 'brunt.cgd.ucar.edu'? I am not working at NCAR but at university, and I have access to Cheyenne.

2. After I input 'brunt.cgd.ucar.edu' for the target host, it ask for my password to brunt.cgd.ucar.edu. I typed in my Cheyenne password, but it did not work. Does it mean that I do not have access to the web server brunt.cgd.ucar.edu? How can I proceed then?

3. When I edit the variables in evn_postprocess.xml, what values should I set for the variables GLOBAL_WEBHOST and GLOBAL_WEBLOGIN?

Hope you could provide some guidance, thanks!

-Yaling

 

[oleson]

It's actually "burnt" not "brunt", but your cheyenne password won't work because it's a CGD machine and requires a different login. If you are collaborating with someone at NCAR, perhaps you could ask them if they could get a CGD account for you.
Otherwise, you could transfer the diagnostic directory to your own web server using scp for example.
If you do get an CGD account:
GLOBAL_WEBHOST = burnt.cgd.ucar.edu
GLOBAL_WEBLOGIN = your user name on burnt

 

[yalingliu]

Hi Keith,

Thanks for your reply. I downloaded the diagnostic directory to my local machine, and just found out that I can view the diagnostic plots & figures through my web browser directly (just double clicking the file setsIndex.html) since it is static web page. Thanks for all your help!

Thanks,
Yaling