On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:36 AM, yacob sen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you for your reply. It is indeed weird. I perhaps have to downgrade > my ubuntu from 11.10 to 10.10 for my Gnu parallel to work. I'm using the > latest version of GNU parallel.
There are (at least) 5 different "latest" versions of GNU Parallel: * the one that only exists on my laptop * the latest in GIT * the latest alpha-release * the latest (normal) release * the latest stable release That is why the man page tells you to ALWAYS include: * The output of parallel --version. If you are not running the latest released version you should specify why you believe the problem is not fixed in that version. * A complete example that others can run that shows the problem. A combination of seq, cat, echo, and sleep can reproduce most errors. If you example requires large files, see if you can use make them by something like seq 1000000>file. If you suspect the error is dependent on your distribution, please see if you can reproduce the error on one of these VirtualBox images: http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualboximage/files/ Specifying the name of your distribution is not enough as you may have installed software that is not the the VirtualBox images. If you do not give me enough information to be able to reproduce the error, I will usually ignore the bug report. /Ole
