#1623: using ENV in parfiles is not documented
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Reporter: rhaas | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: Cactus | Version: development version
Keywords: documentation |
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the user guide does not explain how to use ENV in parfiles (at least grep
ENV doc/UsersGuide/*.tex does not find anything) nor do the peg files in
src/piraha/peg contain.
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#1759: need tensorparity=-1 for WeylScal4::curvIi_group and curvJi_group
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Reporter: physicsbeany@… | Owner: Bernard Kelly
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone: ET_2014_11
Component: EinsteinToolkit thorn | Version: development version
Keywords: weylscal4, parity |
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The WeylScal4 gridfunctions curvIi and curvJi are pesudoscalars with the
same parity properties as Psi2r and Psi2i. However, they're currently
assigned no tensorparity attribute, so they're treated as scalars.
As a result, for a z-aligned Kerr BH (EinsteinInitialData/IDAnalyticBH)
evolved with reflection symmetry across the x-y plane, an interpolation of
curvIi to a coordinate sphere will yield different values for the z<0
points than the same data on a full grid.
Can we set "tensorparity=-1" for both these groups, to fix this issue?
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#382: SimFactory home directory on Kraken is too specific
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Reporter: hinder | Owner: mthomas
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: ET_2011_05
Component: SimFactory | Version:
Keywords: |
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The mdb entry for Kraken in SimFactory has
'sourcebasedir' => '/nics/b/home/@USER@',
My home directory is
'/nics/d/home/@USER@'
Either we could leave the source base dir as unset to force the user to
set it, or we could automatically detect the location of the user's home
directory (better).
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/382>
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#960: Dissipation thorn schedules LOCAL routines after GLOBAL ones
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Reporter: rhaas | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: EinsteinToolkit thorn | Version:
Keywords: Dissipation and SphericalSurface |
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Dissipation currently contains a schedule item {{{
SCHEDULE setup_epsdis AT cctk_poststep after SphericalSurface_HasBeenSet
{
LANG: C
SYNC: epsdisA_group
} "Setup spatially varying dissipation"
}}}
However SphericalSurface_HasBeenSet is AFTER SphericalSurface_Set which is
a GLOBAL routine. Since GLOBAL routines run last in POSTSTEP (which is in
EVOL) the AFTER modifier is ignored for all but the last (finest)
refinement level. This can lead to the wrong surface shape to be used by
the local routines.
It might actually make sense to teach the flesh about GLOBAL/LOCAL etc and
refuse AFTER/BEFORE statements that span different modes. This of course
depends on how much work this is and if we expect the dependency and task
based scheduler to be finished soon and if there are legitimate uses for
AFTER/BEFORE to span modes.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/960>
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#912: Use CACTUS_CONFIGS_DIR in Formaline
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Reporter: eschnett | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: EinsteinToolkit thorn | Version:
Keywords: |
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Formaline assumes that configurations are stored in a "configs"
subdirectory of $CCTK_HOME. Use $CACTUS_CONFIGS_DIR instead.
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#1595: Is {{{*)}}} allowed as upper boundary for a parameter range?
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Reporter: eschnett | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: Cactus | Version: development version
Keywords: |
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I sometimes see these warnings when Cactus starts:
{{{
WARNING[L1,P0] (Cactus): Invalid end of real-valued parameter range; range
descriptor is "(0.0 : *)" (value is 1)
}}}
Presumably the warning depends on which thorns are active.
This warning looks as if the syntax {{{*)}}} was accepted by the CST when
parsing a param.ccl file, but was later not recognized by the flesh when
checking a parameter value against this range. (The flesh uses HUGE_VAL as
fallback, which happens to be correct in this case.)
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#1842: clang-format options not valid for versions <=3.5
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Reporter: knarf | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: unset | Milestone:
Component: Cactus | Version: development version
Keywords: |
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The current .clang-format file is not valid for clang-format versions 3.5
and below. The attached patch would 'fix' this by removing key words not
known in version 3.5, but still wouldn't work for versions below that. I
do not suggest to apply the patch - it should just show that this is quite
some number.
Looking at the .clang-format file it seems that it does not use one of the
pre-defined styles, but rather creates it's own (even if it is based on
one given the comment in the file). I wonder if all of this is really
necessary, or if we could not simply use one of the pre-defined styles,
possibly with a few changes that work across clang-format versions.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/1842>
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#584: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation
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Reporter: hinder | Owner: eschnett
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone:
Component: SimFactory | Version:
Keywords: |
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After failing to check out a thornlist (the current einsteintoolkit.th)
the automated build and test system re-runs GetComponents with --update.
On 27-Sep-2011, this gave the error:
{{{
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
./GetComponents line 2514.
}}}
This line seems to be
{{{
$url = "(".$component{"URL"}.")|(".$component{"AUTH_URL"}.")";
}}}
Is the problem that SimFactory doesn't have an AUTH_URL?
I'm attaching the log of the testsuite script. I don't know if the error
is serious or not, since the checkout has already failed.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/584>
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#1812: GetComponents needs to come with (a selected few) trusted certificates
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Reporter: knarf | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: GetComponents | Version: development version
Keywords: |
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Most encrypted connections use some form of certificates. We use both ssl
for subversion and git. The problem with certificates is that the
certificate of the root CA has to be trusted by a client to be able to
form a trusted connection. Otherwise users get warnings, and either cannot
connect at all, or have to manually approve. We don't want both happening
with GetComponents.
Root CA certificates have to be changed from time to time. They have a
limited life time. In addition, there is a big movement away from SHA-1
certificates right now, as this has been found weak. The problem with that
is that an updated root CA might not have it made to all (or at least
most) clients at the time a user might have to trust it. Usually, root CAs
are created, but not actually used for some time for that reason. Security
problems like SHA-1 interfere with that. All this is nothing we can
change.
So, in the light of root CAs possibly faster changing than clients update
(and especially supercomputers update slowly in particular), we have to
have a mechanism to make GetComponents still work 'out of the box' with
these - no matter what the protocol is that actually uses it.
Right now, we only seem to have problems with svn, but in the future we
might have the same problem with git (bitbuckets root CA is still using
SHA-1).
For Subversion I propose the following. We ship 'too new' certificates
with GetComponents (in-source, to still have one file). We then write this
to a temporary file during checkout, and use the following option to svn
to get it to accept it:
{{{
--config-option servers:global:ssl-authority-files=<FILE>
}}}
This mechanism was tested manually on one of the problematic machines
(stampede), with one of the problematic certs (InCommon).
This only works for svn version 1.6 and newer. Most installations should
have that. In case we encounter an older one we could disable trusted cert
checking for problematic cases using --trust-server-cert.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/1812>
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#1689: Cactus should exit with a nonzero exit code if an error occurs
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Reporter: hinder | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: Cactus | Version: development version
Keywords: |
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In WarnLevel.c, in CCTK_VWarn (called by CCTK_Warn), it says
if (level <= error_level)
{
CCTK_Abort (NULL, 0);
}
The second argument to CCTK_Abort is the exit code of the process. So if
there is an "error" warning, the process exits with 0 exit code; i.e.
success! This happens in several places in this file.
The user guide does not say anything about the exit code of Cactus. I
think that if Cactus has a level-0 warning, i.e. an error, then it should
exit with a non-zero exit code, and Erik agrees.
See
http://lists.einsteintoolkit.org/pipermail/users/2014-November/003878.html
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