Documentation Table of Contents
Defect Index
- 00/09/13 DEFECT IN PROGRAM mergedb
- SYMPTOM: The MERGEDB program failed to accept any observations
for a particular RINEX observation file. The following
lines were reported in the mergedb.sum file:
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START READING DATA @ 09/13/00 14:18:05.86
WARNING: ERROR PARSING EPOCH/EVENT LINE FROM c:\data\jeff\otte0611.00o.
WARNING: LINE= 4 P1 L1 P2 L2 # / TYPES OF OB.
WARNING: SKIPPING EPOCH.
FINISH READING DATA @ 09/13/00 14:18:11.62
WRITE THE *hd.dat FILE @ 09/13/00 14:18:11.62
WRITE THE PLOT LIMIT FILES @ 09/13/00 14:18:11.63
WRITE THE ECLIPSING SATELLITE SUMMARY @ 09/13/00 14:18:11.67
STATION OBSERVATION SUMMARY
Name # Obs Ion Rate # Ion Pts
otte 5571 ... 0
drv1 5803 4.535 5787
NORMAL TERMINATION AT 09/13/00 14:18
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- 00/09/12 DEFECT IN PROGRAM pages
- SYMPTOM: Fortnightly, sinusoidal signal in EOP and orbit comparisons to IGS
- 00/08/07 DEFECT IN PROGRAM pages
- SYMPTOM: Failed to read a RINEX met file
- 00/07/17 DEFECT IN PROGRAM log2site
- SYMPTOM: Failed to output the most recently dated records.
- 00/06/01 DEFECT IN PROGRAM pages
- SYMPTOM: Failure with integer overflow after data processing was complete.
- 00/05/26 DEFECT IN SCRIPT run_survey
- SYMPTOM: Fails with "not integer" error message when -x and -y options
are used.
- 00/04/11 DEFECT IN PROGRAM pages
- SYMPTOM: We're still having trouble with the station occupation sequence
used to write the parameter ID's to the pages.nrm file.
- 00/04/06 DEFECT IN PROGRAM pages
- SYMPTOM: In some instances, the wrong (next) station occupation sequence
number would be written as part of the parameter ID's to the
pages.nrm file.
- 00/03/24 DEFECT IN INCLUDE PROGRAM site2snx
- SYMPTOM: Unable to search user specified antenna info file, failing
catastrophically.
- 00/03/15 DEFECT IN SCRIPT run_survey
- SYMPTOM: Inappropriate and misleading error messages appear when
using the -B and -E options.
- 00/03/10 DEFECT IN SCRIPT run_survey
- SYMPTOM: Incorrect EOP file name appears in pages.skl file.
- 00/03/09 DEFECT IN PROGRAM pages
- SYMPTOM: Antenna ID from header unexpectedly set to NULL.
- 00/02/09 DEFECT IN PROGRAM list
- SYMPTOM: No values were found in the pages files searched.
- 00/01/31 DEFECT IN PROGRAM pages
- SYMPTOM: Catastrophic failure with an integer overflow during testing of
the ultra-rapid orbits.
- 00/01/24 DEFECT IN SCRIPT setup_editdb.inp
- SYMPTOM: Error from run_survey script when trying to edit baselines
involving stations with purely numeric ID's.
- 00/01/12 DEFECT IN PROGRAM reformat_llsolv
- SYMPTOM: reformat_llsolv catastrophically failed reading llsolv output.
- 00/01/11 DEFECT IN PROGRAM reformat_llsolv
- SYMPTOM: Failed to generate EOP files when reading a gpscom output file.
- 00/01/11 DEFECT IN LIBRARY libgpsF
- SYMPTOM: Antenna with radome did not successfully match to an antenna
in the ant_info file.
- 00/01/05 DEFECT IN PROGRAM xplot
- SYMPTOM: Failed to generate a plot which spanned midnight Dec 31, 1999.
- 00/01/05 DEFECT IN PROGRAM arcic
- SYMPTOM: Failed to read some broadcast files as source for satellite
a priori values.
- 00/01/04 DEFECT IN LIBRARY libgpsF
- SYMPTOM: Binary ephemerides from the orbit integrator, arc, had large
differences when compared to standard products such as the
IGS ephemeris. Subsequent examination showed that this only
occurred if the ephemeris' initial conditions were after
00/01/01 10:59:08 UTC.
- 00/01/03 DEFECT IN SCRIPT run_survey
- SYMPTOM: Program states that "00" is not an integer.
- 99/11/11 DEFECT IN SCRIPT setup_pages.skl
- SYMPTOM: All run_survey type scripts referencing /ngslib were
failing with s status of "1".
- 99/11/03 DEFECT IN PROGRAM gpscom
- SYMPTOM: Snxdif comparisons between Pages and Gpscom Sinex files
showed differences at the level of .1 cm which while
fairly small are at the same time troublingly large. Since
the runs had been set up to be identical one would hope
for essentially zero differences.
- 99/10/29 DEFECT IN PROGRAM pages
- SYMPTOM: A priori ion-free plot label says cycles but values are in meters.
- 99/10/25 DEFECT IN LIBRARY libgpsC
- SYMPTOM: List of empty strings in receiver lists from xsites.
- 99/10/21 13:00 DEFECT IN PROGRAM snxdif
- SYMPTOM: Some unreasonable results reported in site coordinate
differences.
- 99/10/05 DEFECTS IN PROGRAM arcic
- SYMPTOM:Initial conditions for only a subset of available satellites
are printed when using a broadcast message file as the source.
- 99/09/09 DEFECTS IN PROGRAM xsites
- SYMPTOM:Incorrect antenna name inserted into record.
- 99/09/01 DEFECTS IN PROGRAM xsites
- SYMPTOM:Catastrophica failure with core dump when a new receiver record
is created.
- 99/09/01 DEFECTS IN PROGRAM pages
- SYMPTOM:Conflicting status is reported when the ocean-loading correction
is enabled.
- 99/09/01 DEFECTS IN LIBRARY libgpsF
- SYMPTOM:A site, out of many others, showed incorrect L1 phase center
offsets.
- 99/08/26 DEFECTS IN LIBRARY libgpsC
- SYMPTOM:Catastrophic failure and core dump in xsites and related programs
when reading some old format site_info files.
- 99/08/20 DEFECTS IN PROGRAM pages
- SYMPTOM:When processing IGS data taken before mid-1994, error messages
appear stating that "constrained site has zero sigma", but zero
sigmas did not appear in the printout of a priori information
for these sites.
- 99/08/19 DEFECTS IN SCRIPT run_survey
- SYMPTOM:The appearance of system error messages related to awk and test
followed by a warning of inappropriate use of the check_editdb
function.
- 99/08/13 DEFECTS IN PROGRAM xsites
- SYMPTOM:No syptoms were reported on the HP workstations.
- 99/08/13 DEFECTS IN PROGRAM pages
- SYMPTOM:No syptoms were reported on the HP workstations.
- 99/07/13 DEFECT IN PROGRAM tdsolve
- SYMPTOM:Program is unable to iterate to a solution on the HP workstations.
It also complains of unmatched satellites.
- 99/06/23 DEFECT IN PROGRAM arcic
- SYMPTOM:Program complains of missing satellites when the satellites are
available from the precise ephemeris.
- 99/06/23 DEFECT IN PROGRAM editdb
- SYMPTOM:Program reports erroreous number of data deletions and breaks.
- 99/06/01 DEFECT IN PROGRAM bei
- SYMPTOM:Program returned the wrong common min time for files which spanned
more than one day.
- 99/05/10 DEFECT IN PROGRAM dmjd
- SYMPTOM:When converting from decimal MJD to calendar date, if the
decimal day is very close to 1, the date returned is off by
one day.
- 99/05/05 DEFECT IN PROGRAM pages
- SYMPTOM:Wildly erroneous tropo estimates were reported when one site's,
gold, was set to be global and therefore passed on in the
normal matrix file. Site ybhb reported a singularity caused
by no date which was not seen if gold's tropo was not stored as
a global parameter.
- 99/05/05 DEFECT IN LIBRARY libgpsF
- SYMPTOM:Constraints specified in pages.skl were not being applied.
- 99/04/16 DEFECT IN SCRIPT run_survey
- SYMPTOM:Divide by zero message from check_editdb appears when processing
a zero baseline.
- 99/04/16 DEFECT IN PROGRAM pages
- SYMPTOM:Catastrophic failure when processing a zero baseline
- 99/03/09 DEFECT IN PROGRAM xsites
- SYMPTOM:Catastrophic failure with a segmentation violation.
- 99/03/09 DEFECT IN SCRIPT run_survey
- SYMPTOM:Could not find the work/processing directory.
Directory name was wrong.
- 03/08/99 13:00 DEFECT in program GPSCOM
- SYMPTOM:The Gpscom output Sinex file has 'null' antenna names.
- 99/03/01 DEFECT IN list
- SYMPTOM: East adjustments printed by -neu option have the wrong sign when
reading gpscom output file (gpr_gpscom.inp).
- 99/02/16 DEFECT IN xsites
- SYMPTOM: program catastrophically fails on Linux systems when option to
create a new antenna record is initiated.
- 99/02/12 DEFECT IN snx2erp
- SYMPTOM: LOD rates in weekly EOP file were zero.
- 99/02/12 DEFECT IN run_arc
- SYMPTOM: arcic was not running properly and process stream would fail.
- 99/02/08 DEFECT IN pages
- SYMPTOM: Site velocity constraint applied to only one site from list.
- 99/01/28 DEFECT IN site2snx
- SYMPTOM: Occasionally sigmas in the ESTIMATION block will be appear as zero.
- 99/01/28 DEFECT IN pages
- SYMPTOM: Poor or no results when processing using the database orbit info.
- 99/01/28 DEFECT IN load_olt IN libgpsC
- SYMPTOM: failure to compile under the Linux OS.
- 99/01/26 DEFECT IN site2snx
- SYMPTOM: failure to compile under the Linux OS.
- 99/01/27 DEFECT IN run_survey
- SYMPTOM: The two digit year 00 was trapped as a bad input.
- 99/01/27 DEFECT IN mergedb
- SYMPTOM: editdb failure when reading the binary database.
- 99/01/27 DEFECT IN mergedb
- SYMPTOM: Program failure reading the TAI-UTC file for processing dates
after the year 1999.
- 99/01/22 DEFECT IN pages
- SYMPTOM: A blank appears in the az-el plot file name.
- 98/12/28 DEFECT IN pages
- SYMPTOM: Start/stop times negligibly close to the day boundary, i.e. 24h
boundary, overflowed their printout.
- 98/12/16 DEFECT IN xsites
- SYMPTOM: Some records could not be selected from the site information
window (double clicked on) for editting or deletion.
- 98/12/11 DEFECT IN page5
- SYMPTOM: Erroneous (truncated) paths were generated when using databases
from a variety of different locations.
- 98/12/10 DEFECT IN xsites
- SYMPTOM: When loading POM files into a site info file, antenna types
were not being recognized or matched correctly to known types.
- 98/12/04 DEFECT IN tdsolve
- SYMPTOM: The program had a catastrophic failure when wildly erroneous
a priori station coordinates were entered.
- 98/11/19 DEFECT IN THE clibtools LIBRARY
- SYMPTOM: Sporadic nonsensical output from some secondary programs, most
recently the sitelist program.
- 98/10/22 DEFECT IN page5
- SYMPTOM: A block of outlying residuals and high RMS in a fixed integer
solution.
- 98/10/22 DEFECT IN page4
- SYMPTOM: A block of outlying residuals and high RMS in a fixed integer
solution.
- 98/10/20 DEFECT IN sitelist
- SYMPTOM: Catastrophic failure and core dump if number of command-line
arguments is wrong.
- 98/10/06 DEFECT IN page4
- SYMPTOM: Cases had occurred in which fixing some or all integers appeared
to cause large blocks of outliers reminiscent of cycle slips.
- 98/10/06 DEFECT IN editdb
- SYMPTOM: An occasional single outlier occurs.
- 98/09/16 DEFECT in script handle_ser7
- SYMPTOM:Pole and ut1 files from most recent handle_ser7 output were
invalid.
- 98/09/03 DEFECT in EDITDB
- SYMPTOM: Good data was showing a large satellite a priori rms and causing
good data or good baselines to be eliminated.
- 98/09/02 DEFECT in script run_tdsolve
- SYMPTOM:Warning messages appear in tdsolve.sum about the program being
unable to find omitted station "0".
- 98/09/02 DEFECT in program page5
- SYMPTOM:Program failure with integer overflow error.
- 98/08/05 DEFECT in program page5
- SYMPTOM:Label errors in tropo sinex file.
- 98/08/05 DEFECT in script page4
- SYMPTOM:Warning messages writen to log file at every epoch.
- 98/08/05 DEFECT in script page4
- SYMPTOM:Standard error of unit weight and unweighted, estimated sample
standard deviation differed significantly from value compute
from data when double-difference decorrelation is on.
- 98/08/05 DEFECT in script setup_page4.skl
- SYMPTOM:page4.skl was setup for non-continuous tropo corrections, not
piecewise-linear (PWL) as intended.
- 98/08/04 DEFECT in MERGEDB
- SYMPTOM:Catastrophic failure when attempting to run mergedb using
binary ephemeris with once-per-revolution radiation pressure terms.
- 98/07/31 DEFECT in REFPRN
- SYMPTOM:a bad refprn scenario was sometimes added to list of scenarios.
- 98/07/17 DEFECT in EDITDB
- SYMPTOM: Single points or very short segments seen in residual plots
- 98/07/10 DEFECT in script handle_ser7
- SYMPTOM:Script was failing to process Series 7 mailings from USNO when
Bill's mailbox exceeded 99 messages.
- 06/16/98 16:50 DEFECT in program Snxdif
- SYMPTOM: Print file missing part of the file name in some headers
- 98/06/10 DEFECT in page4
- SYMPTOM: Wild phase residuals with a truncation of data on the NT platform.
- 98/06/10 DEFECT in editdb
- SYMPTOM: Wild phase residuals with a truncation of data on the NT platform.
- 98/06/10 DEFECT in bdata
- SYMPTOM: Wild phase residuals with a truncation of data on the NT platform.
- 98/06/02 DEFECT in mergedb
- SYMPTOM: Catastrophic failure while reading wes23510.95o.
- 98/06/02 DEFECT in editdb
- SYMPTOM: editdb fails with index out of bounds message
- 98/05/18 DEFECT in editdb
- SYMPTOM: 1) small cycle slips apparently undetected by editdb
2) small slopes due to apparent bad channel not deleted
3) short data spans not deleted by editdb
- 98/05/14 15:05 DEFECT in program page4
- SYMPTOM: Default designation for the ephemeris frame was ITR94.
- 98/05/07 DEFECT in program page4
- SYMPTOM: Error message about unknown counts which was unrelated to
the real problem
- 98/05/06 DEFECT in program page4
- SYMPTOM: When all integers were fixed on some baslines, a segment of
the phase residuals would become large outliers.
- 98/05/06 13:50 DEFECT in program page4
- SYMPTOM: Program failed trying to write leap second times to log file
- 98/04/29 DEFECT in script setup_arcic.inp
- SYMPTOM:New software package was working well in test runs done by
Mark, but compared poorly to IGR in most production runs
done by Orbiteers.
- 98/04/30 DEFECT in program refprn
- SYMPTOM: page4 terminate with an error message about reference satellites'
start/stop files
- 98/04/28 DEFECT in script run_tdsolve
- SYMPTOM: Script failed to act upon plots flag resulting in an infinite loop.
- 98/04/21 DEFECT in script run_survey
- SYMPTOM: Failed in baseline creation loop.Screen and run_msg print
show baseline rather than database ID.
- 98/04/20 DEFECT in program xplot.exe
- SYMPTOM: Epoch count in list pop-up window is off by one (true epoch - 1)
for all epochs after end-of-file (EOF) in *.plt file.
- 98/04/20 DEFECT in program stree
- SYMPTOM: Baseline lengths appear as asterisks for longer lines in the
stree.sum file.
- 98/04/20 DEFECT in program mergedb
- SYMPTOM: Reported error opening broadcast message file when everything
in directory appears normal. HP Fortran error was 920: Open
of file connected to different unit attempted.
- 98/04/17 DEFECT in script run_survey
- SYMPTOM: broadcast message file fails to appear in page skl file.
- 98/04/16 DEFECT in program editdb
- SYMPTOM: Catastrophic failure on a subset of days in a project
- 98/04/10 DEFECT in program editdb
- SYMPTOM: Catastrophic failure on 98/087 fort-asc1 baseline
- 98/04/08 DEFECT in program refprn
- SYMPTOM: No scenarios printed to the *.prn file.
- 98/04/07 DEFECT in program page4
- SYMPTOM: Abnormally large a priori residuals with no corresponding problem
appearing in the post-fit residuals for 98_087. (see note below)
- 98/04/02 DEFECT in program page4
- SYMPTOM: program failed catastrophically during computation of statistics
when wild a priori residual drove
"basement window" to non-sensical value.
- 98/03/21 DEFECT in program mergedb
- SYMPTOM: Last epoch sporadically omitted
- 98/03/19 DEFECT in program mergedb
- SYMPTOM: Erroneous tropo correction
- 98/03/16 DEFECT in program sort_rms
- SYMPTOM: WARNING message that SV 31 appeared in only 25 baselines, when
it actually appeared in 57 (out of 61) baselines.
- 98/03/13 DEFECT in program mergedb
- SYMPTOM: Compilation errors on PC
- 98/03/13 DEFECT in editdb
- SYMPTOM: editdb wipes out all data for an sv after it becomes reference
- 03/12/98 13:00 DEFECT in program Snxdif
- SYMPTOM: The program failed with a traceback in subroutine tmshft.
- 98/03/02 DEFECT in program page4
- SYMPTOM: large post-fit RMS with discontinuities throughout post-fit plots
when processing Feb 28, 1998
- 98/02/03 DEFECT IN PROGRAM sort_rms
- SYMPTOM: Antenna type was NULL for stations COCO and KERG in GPS Weeks
936 through 939. Antenna offsets set to 0.0000.
- 98/01/27 DEFECT in program page4
- SYMPTOM: erroneous relative humidity when reading values from RINEX met file
- 98/01/21 DEFECT in program mergedb
- SYMPTOM: only elv plot can be created if no precise ephemeris is available
- 98/01/08 a DEFECT in program mergedb
- SYMPTOM: often/always plot time tags are written with 60 in the seconds
field, e.g. "12 01 00" will be written as "12 00 60"
- 97/12/19 DEFECT in program page
- SYMPTOM: isolated integer cycle outliers (seen on NT version only to date)
- 97/12/19 DEFECT in program mergedb
- SYMPTOM: correctly omitted satellite coordinates in an SP3 ephemeris
were misinterpreted.
- 97/08/28 15:30 DEFECT in program page4
- SYMPTOM: If start time for a run to estimate EOP was greater than midday,
the program would fail with a read beyond EOF in pmint.
- 97/08/01 09:30 DEFECT in program page4
- SYMPTOM: IF site coordinates' estimated shifts are greater than a few
decimeters and one attempts to fix integers, then solution degrades.
- 97/07/17 16:45 DEFECT in program page4
- SYMPTOM: Discontinuities in post-fit plot for satellite PRN01
- 97/02/13 08:45 DEFECT in program page4
- SYMPTOM: POST-FIT RMS mislabelled as CY
POST-FIT plot mislabelled as CY
- 97/02/09 17:00 DEFECT in program page4
- SYMPTOM: bad solution/wild residuals when processing with broadcast
- 97/02/05 08:30 DEFECT in program xplot.exe
- SYMPTOM: Error after selecting plot but before plot appear.Screen
messages about unable to allocate resoureces and find fonts
- 97/01/27 09:00 DEFECT in GPSCOM
- SYMPTOM: Gpscom failed in CORS processing
- SYMPTOM: Error printing routine did not specify the nature of the
- SYMPTOM: Associated information not printed in the gpscom.snx file
- 97/01/24 09:00 DEFECT in program xsites
- SYMPTOM: require exact match of site ID and point code, e.g. "godea",
to display site
- 96/09/26 09:15 DEFECT in program page4
- SYMPTOM: "% OMITTED" cosistently higher for first baseline listed
- 96/07/12 07:35 DEFECT in program locgen
- SYMPTOM: segmentation fault
- 96/03/15 08:40 DEFECT in program page4
- SYMPTOM: program fails with correlations turned on
- 96/03/07 12:43 DEFECT in program mergedb
- SYMPTOM: erroneous file name give in info/comfort message when a read error
detected in reading RINEX "o" files
- 96/02/20 17:00 DEFECT in Page4 SINEX output
- SYMPTOM: The eccentricity values being reported in the SINEX files
were incorrect.
- 96/01/31 15:40 DEFECT in page4
- SYMPTOM: Bias in estimated positions for mixed antenna baselines
- 96/01/29 10:31 DEFECT in program arcic
- SYMPTOM: Kilometer level error in initial conditions on day before leap
second
- 96/01/11 DEFECT in conarc
- SYMPTOM: catastrophic failures
- 95/11/17 10:28 DEFECT in staadj
- SYMPTOM: Sporadically a site would have an erroneous values for the
L1 PHASE coordinates in the page4.sum.
- 95/11/16 10:58 DEFECT in locgen
- SYMPTOM: Baselines were selected which were not optimal given the total
tracking time of on all possible baselines
- 95/11/03 08:50 DEFECT in page4
- SYMPTOM: erroneous reference to /g1/Files/fsxyz rather
than current standard /g1/Files/site_info
- 95/11/03 16:28 DEFECT in page4
- SYMPTOM: The SOLUTION/APRIORI section of the SINEX files was empty.
- 95/11/01 13:18 DEFECT in mergedb
- SYMPTOM: the eclipse file showed abnormal truncation or misformatting of
the last line(s).
- 95/10/26 12:38 DEFECT in page4
- SYMPTOM: occasionally "- ANT OFFSET" in coordinate deconstruction is
not included in summary file for all sites.
Defect Index
September 13, 2000