SCALE 6: Nothing works - forrtl: severe 64

[SCALE Software Coordinator]

This topic has been migrated from the SCALE 6 notebook.

Date: Mon Jan 10 17:28:27 2011

 

The SCALE Help staff has already been contacted about this problem and will look at it. However, somebody else should have run into this problem and may have solved it.

   On page 38 Johann van Rooyen describes a problem when running ORIGEN-ARP. I get the same problem with all sample problems distributed with SCALE6.

   Typical:

   "forrtl: severe (64): input conversion error, unit -5, file Internal Formatted Read

Image PC Routine Line Source

kenova.exe 0063651A Unknown Unknown Unknown

   Stack trace terminated abnormally."

   This happens with four different new SCALE6 installations on computers running Windows 7 (32-bit Home Premium and Ultimate) that previously ran Windows Vista or XP. The Win 7 installations were not updates but fresh. On a new computer, running Win 7 Professional, SCALE 6 works properly.

  Any suggestion is welcome but I would rather not reinstall Vista. The solution is probably very simple.

   Thanks

 P.S. The new Win 7 Professional is the 64-bit version. Since writing the above I have installed Vista on one computer that didn't work with Win 7. It now works with SCALE6 (not reinstalled, only the shortcut was modified). This confirms that the problem is related to Win 7 32-bit versions. This version is not officially supported by the SCALE 6 developers D.S.

Dennis Mennerdahl

[SCALE Software Coordinator]

The origin of the problem was found yesterday. It turns out that the date format of Windows 7 can prevent SCALE 6 and most executables in that package from running. Swedish computers are delivered with Swedish keyboards and Windows settings for Sweden. This means that the date usually (not always) is set with "-" rather than a "/" (2011-01-10 rather than 01/10/11). It was enough to change the date format to make CSAS5 run on several computers. Changing the date format back stopped CSAS5 from running. This has never happened with earlier Windows versions. If it can be avoided in SCALE 6.1 it would be good.

Dennis Mennerdahl