# NEMO suite failing at building stage **URL:** \ **Category:** Unified Model\ **Tags:** Monsoon2, PUMA\ **Created:** [3 June 2024 13:15 UTC](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/t/nemo-suite-failing-at-building-stage/1429 "2024-06-03T13:15:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![c.j.r.williams](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/c.j.r.williams/32/591_2.png) [@c.j.r.williams](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/u/c.j.r.williams)\ **Post date:** [3 June 2024 13:15 UTC](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/t/nemo-suite-failing-at-building-stage/1429/1 "2024-06-03T13:15:54Z")
Hi, Sorry to bother you, but I am having trouble with one of my suites, which ran previously but is now failing to build. It is a NEMO suite, u-dg710, which is a direct copy of my original u-ba251. This used to run absolutely fine, but I haven’t tried it for a couple of years so presumably the infrastructure has changed in the meantime? I am running it on MONSOON2, the same as I previously did. It is failing at the fcm\_make\_ocean and fcm\_make\_pp stages, apparently simultaneously. I can’t see any obvious error in the former, but the latter has: [FAIL] svn: E000110: Unable to connect to a repository at URL ‘svn://puma.nerc.ac.uk/NEMOCICE\_svn/NEMO/trunk/NEMOGCM/TOOLS/REBUILD\_NEMO’ [FAIL] svn: E000110: Can’t connect to host ‘[puma.nerc.ac.uk](http://puma.nerc.ac.uk)’: Connection timed out which makes me wonder if it is actually a PUMA issue i.e. it is trying to connect to the old version? Incidentally, in case you are wondering why I am running a NEMO suite, the point of this is not to actually run the model but just generate the mesh\_mask files which are needed to create the coupling weights. I expect it to crash at the first timestep of the nemo\_cice stage, which is absolutely fine as long as it creates these mesh\_mask files. But at the moment, it isn’t even getting this far. Thanks a lot, Charlie ---
**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:** [3 June 2024 13:41 UTC](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/t/nemo-suite-failing-at-building-stage/1429/2 "2024-06-03T13:41:21Z")
Hi Charlie There is no longer a `svn://puma.nerc.ac.uk/`. Please try switching off Post Processing (under _suite conf-\> Build and run_) & run again (clutching at straws here) Grenville ---
**Author:** ![c.j.r.williams](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/c.j.r.williams/32/591_2.png) [@c.j.r.williams](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/u/c.j.r.williams)\ **Post date:** [3 June 2024 13:59 UTC](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/t/nemo-suite-failing-at-building-stage/1429/3 "2024-06-03T13:59:50Z")
Thanks very much. I just tried that, and although fcm\_make\_pp no longer appears (and therefore doesn’t fail), fcm\_make\_ocean still fails after ~4 minutes. Charlie ---
**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:** [4 June 2024 12:40 UTC](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/t/nemo-suite-failing-at-building-stage/1429/4 "2024-06-04T12:40:59Z")
Charlie There’s some problem getting cice branches from jwalton, but on removing those and using fcm:cice.xm for the cice\_project\_location, the model builds and runs (briefly) to create mesh and weight files (see `/home/d03/gmslis/cylc-run/u-dg710/work/19760101T0000Z/nemo_cice`) - My copy of u-dg710 is in `/home/d03/gmslis/roses/u-dg710`. Grenville ---
**Author:** ![c.j.r.williams](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/c.j.r.williams/32/591_2.png) [@c.j.r.williams](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/u/c.j.r.williams)\ **Post date:** [4 June 2024 12:56 UTC](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/t/nemo-suite-failing-at-building-stage/1429/5 "2024-06-04T12:56:06Z")
Thanks very much Grenville, I will take a look at your copy right now. Is it just a case of changing my copy to match yours i.e. making your changes, and it should work for me as well? Charlie ---
**Author:** ![c.j.r.williams](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/c.j.r.williams/32/591_2.png) [@c.j.r.williams](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/u/c.j.r.williams)\ **Post date:** [4 June 2024 14:28 UTC](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/t/nemo-suite-failing-at-building-stage/1429/6 "2024-06-04T14:28:20Z")
For once, I have answered my own question: yes. So my version is now identical to yours, and it builds the mesh mask files as it should. Many thanks, Charlie ---
**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:** [5 June 2024 07:17 UTC](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/t/nemo-suite-failing-at-building-stage/1429/7 "2024-06-05T07:17:05Z")
glad it’s worked Grenville ---
**Author:** ![system](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/cms_support/original/1X/1fd2411499ffcbc299fe756cd5cdf26e44956558.png) [@system](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/u/system)\ **Post date:** [5 July 2024 07:17 UTC](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/t/nemo-suite-failing-at-building-stage/1429/8 "2024-07-05T07:17:22Z")
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