[Users] Einstein toolkit installation issues

[Roland Haas]

Hello Camilo,

not sure if only modifying it in .zshrc will do the trick since
simfactory does not call "hostname -f" but instead uses the OS
functions that hostname uses (among other things) which may not see /
respect anything set in your .zshrc.

A couple more suggestions and double checks:

Did you try the command:

echo >$HOME/.hostname "compos_MacBook"

?

Did you run "./simfactory/bin/sim setup-silent" once more after the
modification?

With your modification, can you run "simfactory whoami" or does this
produce an error? What is the output?

Are there any files starting with "campos" in simfactory/mdb/machines/
? This is where "setup-silent" creates a file <MACHINENAME>.ini (and
the desire to avoid unusual characters in there is part of why we only
allow "harmless" characters.

Yours,
Roland

>   Dear Roland,
> 
> Thank you very much for your kind response. I thought the problem was my laptop's name due to the @ character, so I decided to change the name, and I also modified the .zshrc file so my host name looks cleaner in the shell. However I still have the same problem. I am attaching the output you asked for. I also tried your solution, but I got the same problem.
> 
> Thank you in advance for your help   
> 
>   Best wishes,
> Camilo
> 
> ----- Message from Roland Haas <rhaas at illinois.edu> ---------
>     Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 13:08:40 -0500
>     From: Roland Haas <rhaas at illinois.edu>
> Reply-To: users at einsteintoolkit.org
> Subject: Re: [Users] Einstein toolkit installation issues
>       To: Camilo Posada <camilo.posada at physics.slu.cz>
>       Cc: users at einsteintoolkit.org
> 
> > Hello Camilo,
> >
> > I have not quite seen that error before. From the output it would seem
> > that simfactory's setup-silent command is not happy with the machine
> > names that it picked. Did you name your laptop "compos at MacBook" (you
> > can check this via the "Sharing" preferences on the "System
> > Preferences") by any chance?
> >
> > Can you let me know what "hostname -f" outputs?
> >
> > The simplest way to work around this for you is to create a file named
> > ".hostname" in your $HOME with the name you would like simfactory to
> > pretend your laptop is named eg this command should do:
> >
> > echo >$HOME/.hostname "compos_MacBook"
> >
> > Yours,
> > Roland
> >  
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> My name is Camilo Posada, and I'm currently a postdoc at the >> Silesian University in Opava (Czech Repubic), working on >> relativistic astrophysics. I have been interested in learning about >> the Einstein toolkit, so I decided to give it a try and install it. >> I have been following the instructions found in the documentation, >> but I am having some issues (see attached screenshot) which I have >> not been able to figure out. Could you please help me with this?
> >>
> >> I am running a MacBook Air, with macOS Catalina 10.15.4
> >>
> >> Thank you in advance
> >>
> >> Kind regards,
> >>
> >>    
> >>   Camilo Posada, Ph.D.
> >> Institute of Physics
> >> Silesian University in Opava
> >> Bezručovo nám. 13, CZ-74601 Opava  
> >
> > --
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> ----- End message from Roland Haas <rhaas at illinois.edu> -----
>   Camilo Posada, Ph.D.
> Institute of Physics
> Silesian University in Opava
> Bezručovo nám. 13, CZ-74601 Opava


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