[esp-r] emenu error when using viewfactor module

[Andrew Cowie]

Hi All,

I am having a consistent problem with ESP-r, and i cannot for the life of me work out why it's happening; i have little experience of fortran.  Any advice you guys could provide would be invaluable.  Just to get the basics out the way first, i am running a text-only version of ESP-r release 11.1 on a Unix OS (CentOS 5.8).

When attempting to use the viewfactor and MRT module through either the project manager or results modules (i.e. to perform viewfactor calculations, and to provide local comfort results, respectively), i always get an error "emenu: error composing prompt" followed by "Closing viewfactor and MRT module ..." and then it crashes, requiring me to kill the program manually. The error occurs after all the blurb and the main interface has loaded and printed, at the prompt.

This does not occur when i enter the program directly (i.e. $ ./bin/espvwf -file ****.cfg), and as such i am able to perform the viewfactor calculations, however local comfort analysis becomes impractical as i have to enter all the surface temps in manually.

Any help anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated, i have been trawling through the code for weeks trying to trace this.

With hope,
Andy