[Users] Error with ETK Tutorial for New Users

[Chaitanya Shettigara]

Hi Frank,

Thank you for your prompt reply. I did check again that the directory
exists, and sure enough it's there :-)

I have attached the defs.local.ini file here. The output of 'ls -la
./scratch/ettest50/simulations' was
total 8
drwxrwxrwx  2 ettest50 lsuusers 4096 Mar 27 18:41 .
drwxrwxrwx  3 ettest50 lsuusers 4096 Mar 27 21:25 ..

Cheers,
Chaitanya.



On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 1:15 AM, Frank Loeffler <knarf at cct.lsu.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 02:30:42PM +1100, Chaitanya Shettigara wrote:
> > Parameter file: /home/ettest50/Cactus/par/static_tov.par
> > Error: could not access simulation base directory
> > /scratch/ettest50/simulations for reading and writing
> > Aborting Simfactory.
> >
> > I notice that someone had the same problem back in 2011, and I created
> the
> > directory by hand which seemed to be a solution that worked for him,
>
> I almost replied with that advice. :)
>
> > but I keep getting the same error.
>
> This is odd.
>
> > I also gave it completely open access permissions in case that was the
> > problem.
>
> This should not be necessary. Everything you run uses your account, so
> as long as you can write there simfactory should be happy.
>
> > Can anyone advise me on how to solve this problem?
>
> It's tempting to check again that the directory exists, but only you can
> do so (/scratch/ettest50 is on drwx------). If it really does exist
> (/scratch/ettest50/simulations) then you probably have found a bug in
> simfactory, but an odd one since it seems to work for others.
>
> Can you please send us your simfactory/etc/defs.local.ini file and the
> output of 'ls -la /scratch/ettest50/simulations' ?
>
> Frank
>
>
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