[Users] [Commits] [svn:einsteintoolkit] manifest/trunk/ (Rev. 38)

Erik Schnetter schnetter at cct.lsu.edu
Wed Sep 22 21:52:12 CDT 2010 

Yes, the patch works. (However, the patch is a bit strange in that its
indentation is off, and it contains comment calling the solution "a
hack". Is there a better solution?)

-erik

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Eric Seidel <eric at eseidel.org> wrote:
> I just tried again after installing perl 5.12 and it worked. I guess maybe it
> was an issue with the OSX version of perl...
>
> Have you tried checking out GetComponents from github with the
> patch I sent earlier? It should fix the symlink error.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric
>
> On Sep 21, 2010, at 7:32 PM, Erik Schnetter wrote:
>
>> A segfault in a perl script indicates an error in the perl
>> interpreter, or that you are running out of memory. Another
>> possibility may be that you are overwriting the perl script that is
>> currently executing -- I don't know what happens in this case, but I
>> think nothing should happen since the perl interpreter reads the
>> script file in the beginning and then ignores all changes.
>>
>> Do you have another perl version with which you can try?
>>
>> Since you mention that you run in parallel, maybe there is another
>> resource (not memory) that is exhausted, such as threads or processes
>> or stack space. Maybe using fewer workers would change things?
>>
>> -erik
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Eric Seidel <eric at eseidel.org> wrote:
>>> Ok sorry about the mess there. I have created a patch that fixes the issue
>>> Erik was having with GetComponents, but I would like some people to test it
>>> since I get a segfault of all things when I issue a very specific command.
>>> The segfault occurs when i run
>>> /Cactus/utils/Scripts/GetComponents -a -p --root=TEST
>>> Cactus/manifest/my_einsteintoolkit.th
>>> my_einsteintoolkit.th is slightly modified to include the Flickr and Twitter
>>> thorns, as well as a few others; however it never reaches those thorns. The
>>> segfault always occurs immediately after GetComponents has been cloned and
>>> symlinked. The weird thing is that if I modify the command at all, it no
>>> longer occurs. If I add any level of verbosity, if I disable parallel
>>> checkout, if I use einsteintoolkit.th (which for me still includes
>>> GetComponents from github), or if I call GetComponents from the git
>>> repository (which is identical to my patched svn version) the entire
>>> checkout succeeds.
>>> I'm attaching the patch and my_einsteintoolkit.th. Let me know if anyone
>>> else can reproduce this error, perhaps it's a problem with my installation
>>> of perl or git.
>>> Eric
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sep 18, 2010, at 3:48 AM, Ian Hinder wrote:
>>>
>>> ----- Original message -----
>>>> Eric
>>>>
>>>> I reverted your last two commits, since the new thorn list didn't work
>>>> for me. It created a file GetComponents in the main Cactus directory
>>>> pointing to ../repos, which is the wrong path.
>>>>
>>>> Checking out Cactus is a crucial step; once this is broken, everybody
>>>> will have to update manually (since GetComponents doesn't work any
>>>> more and will have been deleted!). Let's debug this, and let's have a
>>>> few other people try things before proceeding.
>>>
>>> And a reminder: as I understood it, the policy is that all nontrivial
>>> commits to the trunk of the ET (excluding the MHD part of grhydro which is
>>> new code under heavy development) are to be discussed on the mailing list
>>> before being applied. (The policy might be too strict and tedious, but we
>>> should either try to stick to it or change it.) Part of the discussion would
>>> likely include other people testing the patches.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> -erik
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 5:03 PM,  <eric9 at mac.com> wrote:
>>>>> User: eric9
>>>>> Date: 2010/09/17 05:03 PM
>>>>>
>>>>> Modified:
>>>>>  /trunk/
>>>>>  einsteintoolkit.th
>>>>>
>>>>> Log:
>>>>>  update to include new location of GetComponents
>>>>>
>>>>> File Changes:
>>>>>
>>>>> Directory: /trunk/
>>>>> ==================
>>>>>
>>>>> File [modified]: einsteintoolkit.th
>>>>> Delta lines: +11 -4
>>>>> ===================================================================
>>>>> --- trunk/einsteintoolkit.th    2010-09-08 20:51:39 UTC (rev 37)
>>>>> +++ trunk/einsteintoolkit.th    2010-09-17 22:03:56 UTC (rev 38)
>>>>> @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@
>>>>>  !TARGET   = $ARR
>>>>>  !TYPE     = svn
>>>>>  !URL      = https://svn.einsteintoolkit.org/cactus/$1/$2/trunk
>>>>> -!CHECKOUT =
>>>>> +!CHECKOUT =
>>>>>  EinsteinAnalysis/ADMAnalysis
>>>>>  EinsteinAnalysis/ADMConstraints
>>>>>  EinsteinAnalysis/AHFinder
>>>>> @@ -190,7 +190,7 @@
>>>>>  !TYPE     = svn
>>>>>  !URL      = http://svn.aei.mpg.de/numrel/$1/$2/trunk
>>>>>  !AUTH_URL = https://svn.aei.mpg.de/numrel/$1/$2/trunk
>>>>> -!CHECKOUT =
>>>>> +!CHECKOUT =
>>>>>  AEIThorns/AEILocalInterp
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> @@ -198,7 +198,7 @@
>>>>>  !TARGET   = $ARR
>>>>>  !TYPE     = svn
>>>>>  !URL      = https://svn.cct.lsu.edu/repos/numrel/$1/$2/trunk
>>>>> -!CHECKOUT =
>>>>> +!CHECKOUT =
>>>>>  LSUThorns/QuasiLocalMeasures
>>>>>  LSUThorns/SummationByParts
>>>>>
>>>>> @@ -210,7 +210,7 @@
>>>>>  !URL      = git://github.com/ianhinder/Kranc.git
>>>>>  !AUTH_URL = git at github.com:ianhinder/Kranc.git
>>>>>  !REPO_PATH= Auxiliary/Cactus
>>>>> -!CHECKOUT =
>>>>> +!CHECKOUT =
>>>>>  KrancNumericalTools/GenericFD
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> @@ -258,3 +258,10 @@
>>>>>  Carpet/CarpetSlab
>>>>>  Carpet/CarpetTracker
>>>>>  Carpet/LoopControl
>>>>> +
>>>>> +# GetComponents, to keep updating
>>>>> +!TARGET                = $ROOT
>>>>> +!TYPE          = git
>>>>> +!URL           = git://github.com/gridaphobe/GetComponents.git
>>>>> +!AUTH_URL      = git at github.com:gridaphobe/GetComponents.git
>>>>> +!CHECKOUT      = GetComponents
>>>>> \ No newline at end of file
>>>>>
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