This machine is not available for the target CIME_MODEL

[mariuslam]

Hello,

Me and the Oslo community are running CTSM on saga. When updating CTSM from dev079 to dev92, we get an ERROR message when running ./xmlchange and ./xmlquery, after the case has been built.

manage_externals was run, and cime is at version 6.0.15

The full message is: "ERROR: Could not initialize machine object from /cluster/home/marlam/CTSM_single_site_hardening_pv_cosmo_28_04/ccs_config/machines/config_machines.xml. This machine is not available for the target CIME_MODEL."

This shows up despite the machine files for saga (attached) downloaded to ~/HOME/.cime

Thanks for your help,

Marius

 

[jedwards]

Hi Marius,

I tried to reproduce your issue by checking out ctsm5.1.dev092 and removing the machine definition for cheyenne from
ccs_config/machines/config_machines.xml and putting it in .cime/config_machines.xml
Creating a case with this configuration appears to work correctly.

I then tried changing the HOSTNAME_REGEX in the machine definition to $HOSTNAME as you have it set.
That generated the error that you report. Please either use the --machine option to create_newcase or provide a valid regex
to match the hostname on your system.

 

[mariuslam]

Hi,

Right now I use this command to create a case:
${path2}/cime/scripts/create_newcase --case ~/cases/${GRIDNAME}_${name} --compset ${compset0} --res CLM_USRDAT --machine saga --run-unsupported --project nn2806k.

When I remove <NODENAME_REGEX>$HOSTNAME</NODENAME_REGEX> from the machine file, I still get the same error.

Regards,

Marius

 

[jedwards]

Sorry, I'm not able to reproduce this issue. Maybe try adding your machine definition to the
ccs_config/machines/config_machines.xml and see if it still gives that error.

 

[mariuslam]

Hi, Thanks for quick replies and having a look at it. We managed by specifying export CIME_MACHINE=saga, before creating the case etc.

 

[jedwards]

I had forgotten that that option was available - glad you got it going.

 

[adrienD]

Hi, Thanks for quick replies and having a look at it. We managed by specifying export CIME_MACHINE=saga, before creating the case etc.

Thanks Markus. I had the same issue and this solved it!