It's nothing to do with Scala! It's something to do with chaining successive programs in a task I think. I have seen it happen but I can't remember what the cause is
Phil On 8 Mar 2013, at 11:49, Frank von Delft <frank.vonde...@sgc.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > (Is it time to change the macabre title of this thread? If I were Phil it'd > give me a jolt every time time I read it... "what have I wrought!") > > phx > > > On 08/03/2013 11:35, Tim Gruene wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Dear Roger, >> >> apart from Francois' suggestion using strace you can also check the >> space available in /tmp, the amount of memory available on these >> machines (using the command 'free') and run memcheck to test the >> memories health. >> >> Regards, >> Tim >> >> On 03/07/2013 06:47 PM, Roger Rowlett wrote: >>> OK, here is a strange one: I have 4 client machines (3 absolutely >>> identical hardware) all running ccp4i from a central server and 2 >>> of the 4 machines (always the same 2) will fail when running a >>> certain scala job with a "child killed" error. I can run the same >>> job on the 2 "good" machines. All the machines call the same ccp4 >>> source file in .tcshrc. I'm stumped. It's probably some sort of >>> cryptic permissions error or something like that. Anyone seen >>> anything like this and have some clue as to the origin of the >>> crash? AFAIK, it only happens running scala in 6.3.0. The home >>> directories for users are served via NFS, but that should be the >>> same for all machines. >>> >>> Log file follows: >>> >>> >>> <!-- CCP4 HTML LOGFILE --> <pre>#CCP4I VERSION CCP4Interface 2.2.0 >>> #CCP4I SCRIPT LOG scala #CCP4I DATE 05 Mar 2013 14:28:22 #CCP4I >>> USER xrdcamp4 #CCP4I PROJECT chem385 #CCP4I JOB_ID 4 #CCP4I SCRATCH >>> /tmp/xrdcamp4 #CCP4I HOSTNAME malagueta #CCP4I PID 18904 </pre> >>> >>> *************************************************************************** >>> >>> >> * Information from CCP4Interface script >>> *************************************************************************** >>> >>> >> The program run with command: /usr/local/xtal/ccp4-6.3.0/bin/scala HKLIN >>> "/home/xrdcamp4/chem385/Chem385-2013Srefinaloutput.mtz" HKLOUT >>> "/tmp/xrdcamp4/chem385_4_1_mtz.tmp" SCALES >>> "/home/xrdcamp4/chem385/chem385_4.scala" ROGUES >>> "/home/xrdcamp4/chem385/chem385_4_rogues.log" NORMPLOT >>> "/home/xrdcamp4/chem385/chem385_4_normplot.xmgr" ANOMPLOT >>> "/home/xrdcamp4/chem385/chem385_4_anomplot.xmgr" PLOT >>> "/home/xrdcamp4/chem385/chem385_4_surface_plot.plt" CORRELPLOT >>> "/home/xrdcamp4/chem385/chem385_4_correlplot.xmgr" ROGUEPLOT >>> "/home/xrdcamp4/chem385/chem385_4_rogueplot.xmgr" has failed with >>> error message child killed: kill signal >>> *************************************************************************** >>> >>> >>> >>> #CCP4I TERMINATION STATUS 0 "child killed: kill signal" #CCP4I >>> TERMINATION TIME 05 Mar 2013 14:28:22 #CCP4I MESSAGE Task failed >>> >>> >> - -- - -- >> Dr Tim Gruene >> Institut fuer anorganische Chemie >> Tammannstr. 4 >> D-37077 Goettingen >> >> GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) >> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ >> >> iD8DBQFROc0bUxlJ7aRr7hoRApxTAJ48mJWrv6x5f4/6AEVjWXFoUjpjEQCg2rlO >> SDsullZAVEGfjRbIoJuVOkw= >> =euL4 >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
