Worse of all is that the disks are correctly mounted, and that from the command line I can do things like ls, even create and remove files. Only from within lapw1para it gives me an error. I am starting to insert lines with calls to unix utilities such as whoami in order to see what weird thing is going on there...
Thanks all for the suggestions. If I track this bug down I'll let you know. Cheers, Marcos On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Laurence Marks <L-marks at northwestern.edu>wrote: > It is a system problem. Maybe the relevant disc is not mounted on the > remote node or something? Try doing a simple ssh to the node and test > things like ls, cd etc. Too many possibilities to list here. Good > luck, just try computer experiments until you track it down..... > > 2010/7/27 Marcos Ver?ssimo Alves <marcos.verissimo.alves at gmail.com>: > > Hi Laurence, > > I am not running mpi, only using rsh/ssh for the plain k-point > > parallelization. I couldn't really figure out how to make a .machines > file > > to run parallel over k-points on mpi, with one processor per machine. > > However, I think Stefaan's tip has gone right to the point: in my job > error > > file I get the following errors: > > LAPW0 END > > .machinetmp222: No such file or directory > > bash: line 0: cd: /afs/atc.unican.es/u/m/mverissi/WIEN2k/sro1sto6: > > Permission denied > > Cannot open error-file > > ERRFLG - couldn't open errorflag-file. > > The fact that from inside lapw1para the ssh command cannot cd to my home > > directory puzzles me... it seems to be a system problem, then. However, > if > > you have any suggsestions, they will be more than welcome! > > Thanks, > > Marcos > > > > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Laurence Marks < > L-marks at northwestern.edu> > > wrote: > >> > >> I doubt (although I may be wrong) that this has anything to do with > >> the OS. Do you have -traceback in your compile options? This will give > >> information as to which program this is happening in. Also, are you > >> running mpi or not? > >> > >> 2010/7/27 Marcos Ver?ssimo Alves <marcos.verissimo.alves at gmail.com>: > >> > Hi Stefaan and Laurence, > >> > @Stefaan: I will try it. > >> > @Laurence: it's the latest version, which I have downloaded about two > >> > weeks > >> > ago. Hope this helps. > >> > Thanks, > >> > Marcos > >> > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Laurence Marks > >> > <L-marks at northwestern.edu> > >> > wrote: > >> >> > >> >> Is this the latest version, or an older one? Some changes were made > in > >> >> the error file access in the latest version for mpi reasons. > >> >> > >> >> 2010/7/27 Marcos Ver?ssimo Alves <marcos.verissimo.alves at gmail.com>: > >> >> > Hi all, > >> >> > > >> >> > I am experiencing a problem in the execution in parallel over > >> >> > k-points. > >> >> > > >> >> > I have compiled the code successfully in a cluster running Debian > >> >> > Linux > >> >> > and > >> >> > with SGEEE as the queue system using ssh as the means to launch the > >> >> > instances on the remote nodes, with /bin/bash as the shell. My > script > >> >> > successfully creates a .machines file and when I run runsp_lapw -p > >> >> > -NI > >> >> > -cc > >> >> > 0.0001, the process dies. This is because, for some reason, > lapw1para > >> >> > is > >> >> > not > >> >> > being able to write to the up(dn)lapw1_*.error files: > >> >> > > >> >> > forrtl: severe (47): write to READONLY file, unit 99, file > >> >> > /afs/atc.unican.es/u/m/mverissi/WIEN2k/sro1sto6/uplapw1_1.error > >> >> > > >> >> > And the same happens to the dnlapw1_*.error files. > >> >> > > >> >> > lapw0, on the other hand, runs fine. I have set up parallel > execution > >> >> > successfully on my dual-core desktop using ssh, using pretty much > the > >> >> > same > >> >> > stuff, and it runs perfectly well. > >> >> > > >> >> > Now, I have changed the write permissions of the directory (and all > >> >> > the > >> >> > files) with chmod -R ugo+rw /afs/atc.unican.es/u..., but to no > avail. > >> >> > Has > >> >> > anyone experienced any problem like this before? Could there be any > >> >> > known > >> >> > (but obscure) reason why lapw1para would not be able to write to > its > >> >> > files, > >> >> > but lapw0para would? > >> >> > > >> >> > Best regards, > >> >> > > >> >> > Marcos > >> >> > > >> >> > _______________________________________________ > >> >> > Wien mailing list > >> >> > Wien at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at > >> >> > http://zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/wien > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> -- > >> >> Laurence Marks > >> >> Department of Materials Science and Engineering > >> >> MSE Rm 2036 Cook Hall > >> >> 2220 N Campus Drive > >> >> Northwestern University > >> >> Evanston, IL 60208, USA > >> >> Tel: (847) 491-3996 Fax: (847) 491-7820 > >> >> email: L-marks at northwestern dot edu > >> >> Web: www.numis.northwestern.edu > >> >> Chair, Commission on Electron Crystallography of IUCR > >> >> www.numis.northwestern.edu/ > >> >> Electron crystallography is the branch of science that uses electron > >> >> scattering and imaging to study the structure of matter. > >> >> _______________________________________________ > >> >> Wien mailing list > >> >> Wien at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at > >> >> http://zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/wien > >> > > >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Wien mailing list > >> > Wien at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at > >> > http://zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/wien > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Laurence Marks > >> Department of Materials Science and Engineering > >> MSE Rm 2036 Cook Hall > >> 2220 N Campus Drive > >> Northwestern University > >> Evanston, IL 60208, USA > >> Tel: (847) 491-3996 Fax: (847) 491-7820 > >> email: L-marks at northwestern dot edu > >> Web: www.numis.northwestern.edu > >> Chair, Commission on Electron Crystallography of IUCR > >> www.numis.northwestern.edu/ > >> Electron crystallography is the branch of science that uses electron > >> scattering and imaging to study the structure of matter. > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wien mailing list > >> Wien at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at > >> http://zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/wien > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wien mailing list > > Wien at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at > > http://zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/wien > > > > > > > > -- > Laurence Marks > Department of Materials Science and Engineering > MSE Rm 2036 Cook Hall > 2220 N Campus Drive > Northwestern University > Evanston, IL 60208, USA > Tel: (847) 491-3996 Fax: (847) 491-7820 > email: L-marks at northwestern dot edu > Web: www.numis.northwestern.edu > Chair, Commission on Electron Crystallography of IUCR > www.numis.northwestern.edu/ > Electron crystallography is the branch of science that uses electron > scattering and imaging to study the structure of matter. > _______________________________________________ > Wien mailing list > Wien at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at > http://zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/wien > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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