I figured out this issue. Turns out my python script was somehow adding a ^M at the beginning of the file. Not sure why it didnt show up in vi doing a :set list however. Doing a quick dos2unix seemed to have fixed the issue.<div>
<br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:11 AM, v g <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:infiniteseeker@gmail.com">infiniteseeker@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<div><br></div><div>Still having this issue. Below is how I create the RRD and how I update the rrd file.</div><div>
<br></div><div>Create:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>rrdtool create birken-boiler.rrd \</div><div class="im">
<div>--start 1325232008 --step 180 \</div><div>DS:boiler_out_flow:GAUGE:600:0:U \</div><div>DS:boiler_in_flow:GAUGE:600:0:U \</div><div>DS:vihara_in_flow:GAUGE:600:0:U \</div><div>DS:vihara_out_flow:GAUGE:600:0:U \</div>
<div>DS:outbldg_in_flow:GAUGE:600:0:U \</div><div>DS:outbldg_out_flow:GAUGE:600:0:U \</div><div>DS:cistern_top:GAUGE:600:0:U \</div><div>DS:cistern_bottom:GAUGE:600:0:U \</div><div>DS:boiler_flow_gpm:GAUGE:600:0:U \</div>
<div>DS:vihara_flow_gpm:GAUGE:600:0:U \</div><div>DS:outbldg_flow:GAUGE:600:0:U \</div><div>DS:boiler_btu_per_hr:GAUGE:600:0:U \</div><div>DS:vihara_btu_per_hr:GAUGE:600:0:U \</div><div>DS:outbldg_btu_per_hr:GAUGE:600:0:U \</div>
<div>RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:20:10000</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div>Update:</div><div><br></div><div><div>rrdtool update birken-boiler.rrd 1325404770:102:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0.0:0:0.0:0:0:0</div><div>rrdtool update birken-boiler.rrd 1325404791:102:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0.0:0:0.0:0:0:0</div>
</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>the interesting thing is that the error only happens when I call the above 2 commands in a .sh file.</div><div><br></div><div>When I manually enter in the commands on cmd line, no error?!?? </div>
<div><br></div><div>(The error is ' to float not complete: tail 'rsion of '0)</div><div><br></div><div>rrdtool 1.3.1 (unfortunately I am not able to update this easily).</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div>
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<div style="direction:ltr;font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma">'rsion of' looks like part of the string "Version of", which it would fail to convert to a float value of course. It might be that you have a separate errorin your code that calls
the rrdtool update and you are not passing a float value but are instead passing this string. Since you have not provided the actual code or script you are running I can only guess...<br>
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<div style="direction:ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> v g [<a href="mailto:infiniteseeker@gmail.com" target="_blank">infiniteseeker@gmail.com</a>]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 21 January 2012 5:24 a.m.<div><br>
<b>To:</b> Steve Shipway<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch" target="_blank">rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [rrd-users] Help with RRD.... in over my head<br>
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<div>I hear what you are saying. I was entering in about 4000 data points spread out across 24 hrs and getting these type of errors:
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<div>I decreased the data count to 2 to see if I could isolate which value was causing that tail rsion error. I will play around further with what you suggested but any ideas on the error noted above?</div>
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<div>Thanks for all your time. I really appreciate it.</div>
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