Error in ctsm_sci nofire tests

ekluzek commented 2 months ago

Brief summary of bug

The nofire testmod for the ctsm_sci tests fail with an error:

So the following tests fail:

SMS_Ld5.f09_g17.IHistClm50Sp.derecho_intel.clm-nofire SMS_Ld5.f09_g17.IHistClm60Sp.derecho_intel.clm-nofire SMS_Ld5.f19_g17.IHistClm50Sp.derecho_intel.clm-nofire SMS_Ld5.f19_g17.IHistClm60Sp.derecho_intel.clm-nofire

General bug information

CTSM version you are using: ctsm5.3.0

Does this bug cause significantly incorrect results in the model's science? No Configurations affected: tests using the nofire testmod

Details of bug

Important output or errors that show the problem

Output of preview_namelist

Create namelist for component clm
   Calling /glade/work/erik/ctsm_worktrees/answer_changes/cime_config/buildnml
NOTE: LND_TUNING_MODE is clm6_0_GSWP3v1 which is NOT tuned, but is based on clm5_0_GSWP3v1
ERROR: Command /glade/work/erik/ctsm_worktrees/answer_changes/bld/build-namelist failed rc=255
out=
err=ERROR : CLM build-namelist::CLMBuildNamelist::setup_cmdl_fire_light_res() : fire_method is being set while use_cn and use_fates are both false.

samsrabin commented 2 months ago

Adding the "science" tag because it does prevent certain specific experiments from being run.

samsrabin commented 1 month ago

Fire should not happen in SP cases. Namelist defaults XML file should set nofire in such cases. Build namelist script should allow user to set that manually as well.

ESCOMP / CTSM