id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
924	Upated io_type error message	arango		"Several users failed to update their application **roms.in** when the ROMS code is updated to include changes to its standard input file. They get errors like:
 {{{
 INITIAL: Configuring and initializing forward nonlinear model ...
 *******
 GET_GRID - Illegal output type, io_type = 0
 Found Error: 03   Line: 91       Source: ROMS/Utility/get_grid.F
 Found Error: 03   Line: 85       Source: ROMS/Utility/set_grid.F
}}}
This error implies that the **PIO** block is missing in **roms.in**:
 {{{
! Input and Output files processing library to use:
!
!   [1] Standard NetCDF-3 or NetCDF-4 library
!   [2] Serial or Parallel I/O with Parallel-IO (PIO) library (MPI only)

     INP_LIB =  1
     OUT_LIB =  1

! PIO library methods for reading/writing NetCDF files:
!
!   [0] parallel read and write of PnetCDF (CDF-5, not recommended)
!   [1] parallel read and write of NetCDF3 (64-bit offset)
!   [2] serial   read and write of NetCDF3 (64-bit offset)
!   [3] parallel read and serial write of NetCDF4/HDF5
!   [4] parallel read and write of NETCDF4/HDF5

  PIO_METHOD =  2

! PIO library MPI processes set-up:

 PIO_IOTASKS =  1                 ! number of I/O tasks to define
  PIO_STRIDE =  1                 ! stride in the MPI-ran between I/O tasks
    PIO_BASE =  0                 ! offset for the first I/O task
  PIO_AGGREG =  1                 ! number of MPI-aggregators to use

! PIO library rearranger methods for moving data between computational and I/O
! processes:
!
!   [1] Box rearrangement
!   [2] Subset rearrangement

   PIO_REARR =  1

! PIO library rearranger flag for MPI communications between computational
! and I/O processes:
!
!   [0] Point-to-Point (low-level communications)
!   [1] Collective (high-level grouped communications)

PIO_REARRCOM =  0

! PIO library rearranger flow control direction flag for MPI communications
! between computational and I/O processes:
!
!   [0] Enable computational to I/O processes, and vice versa
!   [2] Enable computational to I/O processes only
!   [3] Enable I/O to computational processes only
!   [4] Disable flow control

PIO_REARRDIR = 0

! PIO rearranger options for computational to I/O processes (C2I):

  PIO_C2I_HS = T                  ! Enable C2I handshake (T/F)
PIO_C2I_Send = T                  ! Enable C2I Isends (T/F)
PIO_C2I_Preq = 64                 ! Maximum pending C2I requests

! PIO rearranger options for I/O to computational processes (I2C):

  PIO_I2C_HS = T                  ! Enable I2C handshake (T/F)
PIO_I2C_Send = T                  ! Enable I2C Isends (T/F)
PIO_I2C_Preq = 65                 ! Maximum pending I2C requests
}}}

[[span(style=color: #FF0000, Therefore, this update clarifies the standard output error as:)]]
 {{{
INITIAL: Configuring and initializing forward nonlinear model ...
*******
 GET_GRID - Illegal input file type, io_type = 0
            Check KeyWord 'INP_LIB' in 'roms.in'.
 Found Error: 02   Line: 91       Source: ROMS/Utility/get_grid.F
 Found Error: 02   Line: 85       Source: ROMS/Utility/set_grid.F
}}}
Let's hope that we don't see desperate messages in the Forum from users about this error, and they have the curiosity to check their **roms.in** and find that the **INP_LIB** or **OUT_LIB** !KeyWords are not found, indicating an old version of **roms.in**, which needs to be updated."	upgrade	closed	major	Release ROMS/TOMS 4.1	Nonlinear	4.0	Done