Changes (by Roland Haas):

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open (was new)

If I have an entry for my local machine in defs.local.ini but I do not have an mdb file for it, I get the following error:

MacBook:llama ian$ sim2 sync datura Error: required key basedir in section macbook is missing

This does not tell me what the problem is. I would expect to get the same error as when the section is not present:

MacBook:llama ian$ sim2 sync damiana Unknown machine name macbook Info: Simfactory command: simfactory2/bin/../lib/sim.py "sync" "damiana" Info: Version 1230 The Simulation Factory: Manage Cactus simulations

Info: defs: /Users/ian/Cactus/llama/simfactory2/etc/defs.ini Info: defs.local: /Users/ian/Cactus/llama/simfactory2/etc/defs.local.ini Error: Unknown local machine macbook. Please use 'sim setup' to create a local machine entry from the generic template.

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Comment (by Roland Haas):

Pull request is here: https://bitbucket.org/simfactory/simfactory2/pull-requests/38/rhaas-udbwarnings/diff

The commit of interest is "simdb: remove incomplete udb entries with warning" with the others setting things up and / or removing some strange behaviour.

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Ticket URL: https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/305/machine-entry-in-defslocalini-but-not-in