2008/7/15 Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi Ian,
>
> On Tuesday 15 July 2008 10:13:02 am Ian Harry wrote:
> > Thanks for helping with this problem.
> >
> > I have investigated further this issue and here is what I have found out:
> >
> > I have traced the errors themselves back to two functions in
> texmanager.py
> > (matplotlib.texmanager), make_dvi and make_png. Most of the errors seem
> to
> > mention 'Stale NFS file handles' and crop up at a variety of different
> > places throughout these functions. I guess this is because on our
> clusters
> > /home/[username] is not a local directory, we have seen issues before
> with
> > other code if a lot of nodes try to access the same directory on the NFS
> > file system simultaneously. I tried altering the __init__.py to force the
> > code to put the .matplotlib directory on filesystems local to each node.
> > Moving the .matplotlib directory to a local drive solves almost all of
> > these errors.
>
> I suggest you try backing out those changes you just described, and instead
> try setting a MPLCONFIGDIR environment variable to point somewhere on the
> local filesystem. If MPLCONFIGDIR is not defined, we use ~/.matplotlib.
Brilliant! This works perfectly and should be easy to implement on different
systems!
>
> > One error that remained was the one about file opening
> > fh = file(outfile)
> > I added a 'w' to this and this seemed to solve this problem, I also
> > commented out some of the verbose generating commands (specifically
> > fh.read() was causing a problem (probably expected with 'w')) within
> these
> > functions and the errors go away. I guess 'a' would be better but the
> > commands only seem to be called if the file doesn't exist?
>
> Out of curiosity, if you added 'a' instead of 'w', does the error go away?
> Either way, please let me know exactly what changes need to be made and I
> will
> commit the changes to svn.
No, using 'a' gives the same errors as using 'w' (again in fh.read()). Here
are the changes I made to stop the errors that didn't seem to be due to
'stale NFS file handle':
--snip--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07:14 AM matplotlib]$ diff texmanager.py
/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/texmanager.py
248c248
< fh = file(outfile,'a')
---
> fh = file(outfile)
252,254c252
< else:
< try: verbose.report(fh.read(), 'debug')
< except: pass
---
> else: verbose.report(fh.read(), 'debug')
259,261c257,258
< else:
< try: os.remove(fname)
< except: pass
---
> else: os.remove(fname)
>
280c277
< fh = file(outfile,'a')
---
> fh = file(outfile)
285,287c282
< else:
< try: verbose.report(fh.read(), 'debug')
< except: pass
---
> else: verbose.report(fh.read(), 'debug')
289,290c284
< try: os.remove(outfile)
< except: pass
---
> os.remove(outfile)
314c308
< # else: verbose.report(fh.read(), 'debug')
---
> else: verbose.report(fh.read(), 'debug')
--snip--
Once again, thanks for the help.
Ian
>
>
> > As we have a lot of users running this code a solution like this is
> > unworkable (as a lot of our users are unfamiliar with python/Linux and
> want
> > to run a simple command). Do you have any ideas of how we could solve
> this
> > issue?
>
> Please try the environment variable I mentioned and let me know what
> happens.
>
> Darren
>
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