Fcm_make_pp fails

Unified Model
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Hi. I’m trying to run my vn13.7 global suite u-dq115, which ran fine previously. The error messages read like this;

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[FAIL] mirror.target = : incorrect value in declaration
[FAIL] config-file=/working/d03/myosh/cylc-run/u-dq115/work/20150101T0000Z/fcm_make_pp/fcm-make.cfg:4
[FAIL] config-file= - file:///home/d04/fcm/srv/svn/moci.xm/main/trunk/Postprocessing/fcm_make/postproc.cfg@4419:12
[FAIL] config-file= - - file:///home/d04/fcm/srv/svn/moci.xm/main/trunk/Postprocessing/fcm_make/inc/remote.cfg@4419:6
[FAIL] fcm make -f /working/d03/myosh/cylc-run/u-dq115/work/20150101T0000Z/fcm_make_pp/fcm-make.cfg -C /home/d03/myosh/cylc-run/u-dq115/share/fcm_make_pp -j 4 # return-code=9
2025-06-02T17:42:48Z CRITICAL - failed/EXIT

I haven’t change anything on the model settings. The only change I made since before is the minor code changes in the local working copy /home/d03/myosh/Branches/vn13.7_Contrails_Chen, which I believe don’t matter anything other than science.

Maybe the issue is temporary? Or is it related to the switch to Monsoon3?

Any help, advice or comments will be appreciated.
Masaru

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Hi Masaru,

It’s because of the change made in your previous ticket (Suite submission fails at every iteration) that causes problems for a 2-step make as it now thinks the extract and build are taking place on the same machine which makes no sense.

In site/monsoon.rc file in the [[PPBUILD_RESOURCE]] section add the following:

[[[remote]]]
    host = $(rose host-select xcs-c)

Regards,
Ros.

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Hi Ros.,

Oh, wow. That’s great.

I guess fcm_make_pp produces some files or scripts necessary to do post processing. I thought that as I have run this same suite before, those files might be left from the previous run. So I simply marked ‘Succeeded’ to this process and the suite has been running without a problem.

That means I don’t have a chance to test your suggested change now. Even so I guess it is very likely to be the solution and will close this request.

Thanks a lot for your help as always.
Masaru

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Hi Masaru,

You thinking is absolutely correct. :+1:

Cheers,
Ros.