# Coupled UKESM1.0 vn11.2 suite failing in fcm\_make2\_ocean and fcm\_make2\_drivers **URL:** \ **Category:** Unified Model\ **Tags:** Monsoon2\ **Created:** [16 August 2021 15:12 UTC](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/t/coupled-ukesm1-0-vn11-2-suite-failing-in-fcm-make2-ocean-and-fcm-make2-drivers/192 "2021-08-16T15:12:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JMK64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@JMK64](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/u/JMK64)\ **Post date:** [16 August 2021 15:12 UTC](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/t/coupled-ukesm1-0-vn11-2-suite-failing-in-fcm-make2-ocean-and-fcm-make2-drivers/192/1 "2021-08-16T15:12:38Z")
Dear CMS Modelling Helpdesk, I have copied a coupled atmosphere-ocean suite (u-bg743@135986) from Luke Abraham which was run several years ago. I am trying to run the new suite (u-ch175) on the XCS-C, but at the moment it is failing at the fcm\_make2\_ocean and fcm\_make2\_drivers step. fcm\_make\_um completes successfully. The error is below: [FAIL] no configuration specified or found [FAIL] fcm make -C /var/spool/jtmp/8046071.xcs00.Yml7bK/fcm\_make2\_ocean.19500101T0000Z.u-ch1751xixvo -n 2 -j 6 # return-code=2 2021-08-16T14:52:30Z CRITICAL - failed/EXIT Luke and I have looked through the error messages and previous tickets, and the error looks a lot like an error seen in previous tickets: [http://cms.ncas.ac.uk/ticket/2991](http://cms.ncas.ac.uk/ticket/2991) [http://cms.ncas.ac.uk/ticket/2955](http://cms.ncas.ac.uk/ticket/2955) [http://cms.ncas.ac.uk/ticket/3004](http://cms.ncas.ac.uk/ticket/3004) However, I’ve followed some of the suggested changes in those tickets (which revolve around the specification of the host name in the MONSooN.rc file), but the suite continues to fail at the same point. I have added the following lines to the [[HPC\_SERIAL]] and [[OCEANBUILD\_RESOURCE]] blocks: [[[remote]]] host = xcs-c and also tried localhost instead of xcs-c, but the same error message occurs. Can you advise on how to resolve this error? Please let me know if there is any further information I can provide. Best, James ---
**Author:** ![grenville](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/grenville/32/29_2.png) [@grenville](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/u/grenville)\ **Post date:** [16 August 2021 16:09 UTC](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/t/coupled-ukesm1-0-vn11-2-suite-failing-in-fcm-make2-ocean-and-fcm-make2-drivers/192/2 "2021-08-16T16:09:45Z")
Hi James Your suite worked OK for for me - did you rose suite-run --new? Note: `/home/d03/jkeeb/roses/u-ch175/rose-suite.conf` should just start with `root-dir=*=/projects/ukca-cam/$USER` not ```auto root-dir{share}=*=/projects/ukca-cam/$USER root-dir{work}=*=/projects/ukca-cam/$USER ``` assuming you want output to go to ukca-cam. Grenville ---
**Author:** ![Luke](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/luke/32/45_2.png) [@Luke](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/u/Luke)\ **Post date:** [16 August 2021 16:21 UTC](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/t/coupled-ukesm1-0-vn11-2-suite-failing-in-fcm-make2-ocean-and-fcm-make2-drivers/192/3 "2021-08-16T16:21:39Z")
Thanks for this Grenville. Note that the format for the `root-dir` lines was taken directly from the Monsoon2 documentation here: - [https://code.metoffice.gov.uk/doc/monsoon2/rose.html#changing-which-projects-directory-data-is-written-to](https://code.metoffice.gov.uk/doc/monsoon2/rose.html#changing-which-projects-directory-data-is-written-to) Thanks, Luke ---
**Author:** ![RosalynHatcher](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/rosalynhatcher/32/11_2.png) [@RosalynHatcher](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/u/RosalynHatcher)\ **Post date:** [16 August 2021 17:00 UTC](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/t/coupled-ukesm1-0-vn11-2-suite-failing-in-fcm-make2-ocean-and-fcm-make2-drivers/192/4 "2021-08-16T17:00:19Z")
Thanks for pointing out that link Luke. I’ll ask Veryan to fix that as it is out of date. Cheers, Ros. ---
**Author:** ![JMK64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@JMK64](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/u/JMK64)\ **Post date:** [16 August 2021 22:48 UTC](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/t/coupled-ukesm1-0-vn11-2-suite-failing-in-fcm-make2-ocean-and-fcm-make2-drivers/192/5 "2021-08-16T22:48:36Z")
Hi Grenville, Thanks for this, and apologies for the mistake. When I made the changes to the MONSooN.rc file I ran rose suite-run --reload, and it must have not picked up the change. Having now run rose suite-clean and then restarting the suite it has run past the fcm\_make2\_ocean and fcm\_make2\_drivers step, but is stopping at all tasks starting with ‘coupled’, which are listed as retrying. From your message above the version of the suite you ran got past this step? Best, James PS, I have updated the root-dir=\*=/projects/ukca-cam/$USER line, thanks for spotting that. As Luke says, we took the pair of lines from Monsoon2 documentation Luke has linked to. ---
**Author:** ![grenville](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/grenville/32/29_2.png) [@grenville](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/u/grenville)\ **Post date:** [17 August 2021 07:45 UTC](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/t/coupled-ukesm1-0-vn11-2-suite-failing-in-fcm-make2-ocean-and-fcm-make2-drivers/192/6 "2021-08-17T07:45:26Z")
James The error file says `Error message: Unable to find file id (pp201) in portio or netcdf file lists` The stash setup says UPN is associated with file\_id pp201, but there is no associated output stream (same goes for UPO, UPP, UOQ, and UPR.) Maybe add new output streams, or move stash into usage profiles that are set up correctly. Grenville ---
**Author:** ![JMK64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@JMK64](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/u/JMK64)\ **Post date:** [17 August 2021 10:10 UTC](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/t/coupled-ukesm1-0-vn11-2-suite-failing-in-fcm-make2-ocean-and-fcm-make2-drivers/192/7 "2021-08-17T10:10:32Z")
Thanks Grenville - I tried to duplicate the STASH from another suite and must have missed the output streams. I’ll fix that now. Happy for you to mark the original issue as resolved. Thanks again! ---
**Author:** ![grenville](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/grenville/32/29_2.png) [@grenville](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/u/grenville)\ **Post date:** [17 August 2021 12:13 UTC](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/t/coupled-ukesm1-0-vn11-2-suite-failing-in-fcm-make2-ocean-and-fcm-make2-drivers/192/8 "2021-08-17T12:13:36Z")