topic Re: SingleOutputMapAlgebra_sa "succeeds", but no output in Geoprocessing Questions

SingleOutputMapAlgebra_sa "succeeds", but no output

LeeBenda — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 15:00:52 GMT

The same code works great on all of our computers, except one. It runs SingleOutputMapAlgebra_sa from a VB-scripted Add-In, and throws an error. I can find it in the ArcToolbox Results, and I can run it again from that prompt, where it says "Succeeded, elapsed time 0.0 seconds", and the output file does not exist.

I just went to the trouble to uninstall and reinstall ArcMap and Spatial Analyst, and it behaves exactly the same.

When I run Raster Calculator from ArcToolbox with the exact same input, it works.

Any clue?

Re: SingleOutputMapAlgebra_sa "succeeds", but no output

ChrisSnyder — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 17:04:00 GMT

One of these computers is not like the other... time to play that game.

What is the error on your odd computer?

Re: SingleOutputMapAlgebra_sa "succeeds", but no output

LeeBenda — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 17:18:06 GMT

This is all I can get. Is there a way to get more detailed error messages out of geoprocessing calls?

System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80004005): Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.
at ESRI.ArcGIS.Geoprocessing.GeoProcessorClass.Execute(String Name, IVariantArray ipValues, ITrackCancel pTrackCancel)

Re: SingleOutputMapAlgebra_sa "succeeds", but no output

LeeBenda — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 17:23:08 GMT

When I specify gp.GetMessage(2), it says "Succeeded at (date/time). Elapsed time 0.00 seconds" and the output does not exist.

Re: SingleOutputMapAlgebra_sa "succeeds", but no output

ChrisSnyder — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 17:36:15 GMT

What does gp.GetMessages() say?

Probably won't be very helpfull though...

Would it be possible to "image" your odd machine as one of the others?

These sorts of issues are pretty quirky somethimes. I recall an issue a while back when I set my Raster AttributeLimit value(AdvancedArcMapSettings.exe) to be some large number like 999,999,999. Some (not all) Spatial Analyst tools freaked out and started bombing... Soon as I set it to a smaller number like 900,000,000 it stared working fine. As I recall, an ESRI guy could replicate the issue on only some of his machines.

Re: SingleOutputMapAlgebra_sa "succeeds", but no output

LeeBenda — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 17:41:17 GMT

gp.GetMessages() wants an argument for Severity....I'll try to figure out what to specify for that.

Re: SingleOutputMapAlgebra_sa "succeeds", but no output

LeeBenda — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 17:47:36 GMT

I had it output all gp.messages:

Executing: SingleOutputMapAlgebra Int(SetNull(C:\Data\app\vw\vmask2_app.flt == 0, C:\Data\app\vw\vmask2_app.flt)) C:\Files\Scratch\NTA #
Start Time: Tue Jun 04 11:44:31 2013
Succeeded at Tue Jun 04 11:44:31 2013 (Elapsed Time: 0.00 seconds)
ERROR 000582: Error occurred during execution.

Re: SingleOutputMapAlgebra_sa "succeeds", but no output

LeeBenda — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 17:48:39 GMT

That error is not very helpful!

000582 : Error occurred during execution.

Description

An error occurred during the tool's validation or execution. No specific messages were available. The validation process checks that a tool's parameter values are of the expected number, data type, and value.
Solution

Check that a tool's required parameter values are specified and are the correct data type. If the parameters are entered correctly, it may be possible that the execute routine for the tool is invalid. Have the developer of the custom tool check the Execute implementation.

Re: SingleOutputMapAlgebra_sa "succeeds", but no output

LeeBenda — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 17:52:00 GMT

The really weird thing is that this was working on this computer for the last month, and just quit working yesterday.

Re: SingleOutputMapAlgebra_sa "succeeds", but no output

ChrisSnyder — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 19:27:44 GMT

Something changed.... And it's often pretty hard to figure out what it was...

I see you are using float files (.flt)... anything change in that regard?

Re: SingleOutputMapAlgebra_sa "succeeds", but no output

LeeBenda — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 20:46:32 GMT

No, the .flt files are no different than they've ever been.

Re: SingleOutputMapAlgebra_sa "succeeds", but no output

LeeBenda — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 21:55:28 GMT

We're going to try a system restore to sometime last week on the offending machine. Maybe there was a Windows update or something that screwed things up.

Re: SingleOutputMapAlgebra_sa "succeeds", but no output

KevinAndras — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:22:55 GMT

This just happened to a second computer in our office. (I'm the same guy who posted all of the above, just different log-in.) I had a batch run to do this operation for 7 grids - the first one worked fine, and the next 6 all failed in the exact same mode as the other computer. Using ArcToolbox Raster calculator to do the operation works, but using SingleOutputMapAlgebra says it works, 0.0 seconds, no output. Ack. Any more suggestions, or a potential work-around?

Thanks!

Re: SingleOutputMapAlgebra_sa "succeeds", but no output

KevinAndras — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:50:19 GMT

OK, I figured it out. ArcMap was failing to save rasters (it was trying to write to C:\Windows\System32\!), so I set up (as described in another forum topic on this site) a Windows environment variable ARCTMPDIR as C:\Windows\Temp\.

Here's how I figured out what was happening: When I opened up the SingleOutput interface (that says it succeeded but didn't), I replaced the .flt grids with an actual ESRI grid in the expression, and then I got some real errors:

Messages
Executing: SingleOutputMapAlgebra Int(SetNull(E:\NetMapData\app\elev_app EQ 0, E:\NetMapData\app\elev_app)) c:\temp\XSCXT #
Start Time: Thu Jun 13 10:28:32 2013
ERROR 010429: Error in GRID IO: CellLyrCreateInternal: Unable to create info directory for c:\windows\temp\ras649 .
ERROR 010302: Unable to create the output raster: C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\RAS649 Unable to create INFO directory C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\INFO
ERROR 010067: Error in executing grid expression.
Failed to execute (SingleOutputMapAlgebra).
Failed at Thu Jun 13 10:28:32 2013 (Elapsed Time: 0.00 seconds)

I looked in C:\Windows\Temp\ and it was full of hundreds of g_g### folders, and an info folder. I deleted everything in there, and then the next time I ran my code, a new info folder was created, and everything worked just fine. So, I guess the info folder was corrupt? I will now look for a way to purge that directory if needed, or perhaps on start-up of my add-in.

Hope this helps someone else with this kind of problem!