Crash with 'FATAL from PE 0: MOM_obsolete_params'

[zhaobin74]

Coupled run with MOM6 at 1440x1080 resolution crashed in MOM6 initializer:

WARNING from PE     0: MOM_obsolete_params: ETA_TOLERANCE_AUX is an obsolete run-time flag.


WARNING from PE     0: MOM_obsolete_params: ETA_TOLERANCE_AUX is an obsolete run-time flag.


WARNING from PE     0: MOM_file_parser : DEFAULT_2018_ANSWERS over-ridden.  Line: 'DEFAULT_2018_ANSWERS = False' in file MOM_override.


WARNING from PE     0: MOM_file_parser : DEFAULT_2018_ANSWERS over-ridden.  Line: 'DEFAULT_2018_ANSWERS = False' in file MOM_override.


FATAL from PE     0: MOM_obsolete_params: DEFAULT_2018_ANSWERS is an obsolete run-time flag, and should not be used. Instead use DEFAULT_ANSWER_DATE.


FATAL from PE     0: MOM_obsolete_params: DEFAULT_2018_ANSWERS is an obsolete run-time flag, and should not be used. Instead use DEFAULT_ANSWER_DATE.

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MPI_ABORT was invoked on rank 0 in communicator MPI_COMM_WORLD
with errorcode 1.

NOTE: invoking MPI_ABORT causes Open MPI to kill all MPI processes.
You may or may not see output from other processes, depending on

DEFAULT_2018_ANSWERS is not being accepted, but present in both MOM_input and MOM_override.
It should be commented out or removed from both config files.

GEOS version: 11.6.0

[mathomp4]

@zhaobin74 Can you look at #78. I just sort of went in and removed any line like that.

NOTE: #79 is aimed to GEOSgcm v12, so you'll want to try #78 which is for GEOSgcm v11

[sanAkel]

@mathomp4, @zhaobin74 the fix is simple! Just set a date for DEFAULT_ANSWER_DATE. See this example.