Two tests that fail early on in the driver/atm

[ekluzek]

Brief summary of bug

In what will be ctsm5.3.016 the following two tests fail at the run step in Initialization

ERP_P64x2_Ld765.f10_f10_mg37.I2000Clm60BgcCrop.derecho_intel.clm-monthly (NLCOMP RUN)
ERS_P128x1_Ld765.f10_f10_mg37.I2000Clm60Fates.derecho_intel.clm-FatesColdNoComp (NLCOMP RUN)

General bug information

CTSM version you are using: ctsm5.3.016

Does this bug cause significantly incorrect results in the model's science? No

Configurations affected: Maybe ER tests for 765 days?

Details of bug

Important details of your setup / configuration so we can reproduce the bug

The initial case runs fine, it's the restart step that fails in the case2/$CASE directory.

Important output or errors that show the problem

ERP_P64x2_Ld765.f10_f10_mg37.I2000Clm60BgcCrop.derecho_intel.clm-monthly fails as follows, only the cesm.log file exists.

cesm.log

dec2343.hsn.de.hpc.ucar.edu 0:  (t_initf)       profile_outpe_stride=               0
dec2343.hsn.de.hpc.ucar.edu 0:  (t_initf)       profile_single_file=      F
dec2343.hsn.de.hpc.ucar.edu 0:  (t_initf)       profile_global_stats=     T
dec2343.hsn.de.hpc.ucar.edu 0:  (t_initf)       profile_ovhd_measurement= F
dec2343.hsn.de.hpc.ucar.edu 0:  (t_initf)       profile_add_detail=       F
dec2343.hsn.de.hpc.ucar.edu 0:  (t_initf)       profile_papi_enable=      F
dec2343.hsn.de.hpc.ucar.edu 0:  ESMF_Finalize: Error closing trace stream
dec2343.hsn.de.hpc.ucar.edu 0: MPICH ERROR [Rank 0] [job id 2dd16cc6-e949-427e-bb59-48726c16f9fa] [Wed Dec 18 15:47:41 2024] [dec2343] - Abort(1) (rank 0 in comm 496): application called MPI_Abort(comm=0x84000002, 1) - process
 0
dec2343.hsn.de.hpc.ucar.edu 0: 
dec2343.hsn.de.hpc.ucar.edu 0: forrtl: severe (174): SIGSEGV, segmentation fault occurred
dec2343.hsn.de.hpc.ucar.edu 0: Image              PC                Routine            Line        Source             
dec2343.hsn.de.hpc.ucar.edu 0: libpthread-2.31.s  000015004133C8C0  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
dec2343.hsn.de.hpc.ucar.edu 0: libmpi_intel.so.1  000015003F2FBE7E  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
dec2343.hsn.de.hpc.ucar.edu 0: libmpi_intel.so.1  000015003F10A22F  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
dec2343.hsn.de.hpc.ucar.edu 0: libmpi_intel.so.1  000015003D7376A8  MPI_Abort             Unknown  Unknown
dec2343.hsn.de.hpc.ucar.edu 0: libesmf.so         0000150049332277  _ZN5ESMCI3VMK5abo     Unknown  Unknown
dec2343.hsn.de.hpc.ucar.edu 0: libesmf.so         0000150049330814  _ZN5ESMCI2VM5abor     Unknown  Unknown
dec2343.hsn.de.hpc.ucar.edu 0: libesmf.so         00001500493476E5  c_esmc_vmabort_       Unknown  Unknown
dec2343.hsn.de.hpc.ucar.edu 0: libesmf.so         0000150049B5C7A8  esmf_vmmod_mp_esm     Unknown  Unknown
dec2343.hsn.de.hpc.ucar.edu 0: libesmf.so         00001500499CC1EE  esmf_initmod_mp_e     Unknown  Unknown
dec2343.hsn.de.hpc.ucar.edu 0: cesm.exe           0000000000433ADA  MAIN__                    132  esmApp.F90
dec2343.hsn.de.hpc.ucar.edu 0: cesm.exe           00000000004230FD  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
dec2343.hsn.de.hpc.ucar.edu 0: libc-2.31.so       000015003C7E129D  __libc_start_main     Unknown  Unknown
dec2343.hsn.de.hpc.ucar.edu 0: cesm.exe           000000000042302A  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown

It looks like the problem is that DRV_RESTART_POINTER is wrong for case2 as we see here:

./xmlquery DRV_RESTART_POINTER
	DRV_RESTART_POINTER: rpointer.cpl.2001-01-18-00000
(ctsm_pylib) case2/ERP_P64x2_Ld765.f10_f10_mg37.I2000Clm60BgcCrop.derecho_intel.clm-monthly.GC.ctsm5316acl_int> ls ../../run/rpointer.cpl.*
../../run/rpointer.cpl.2001-01-19-00000

The other problem is that there isn't graceful error reporting that the rpointer file asked for doesn't exist and what needs to be done about it.

[ekluzek]

@jedwards4b has a fix for this in a cime PR.

ESMCI/cime#4723

I ran aux_clm and it passes and these tests compare exactly to ctsm5.3.015 as it should.

[ekluzek]

The cime version with the fix is:

cime6.1.54