Fcm_make_pp fails

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

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.

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

Hi Masaru,

You thinking is absolutely correct. :+1:

Cheers,
Ros.