I confirm that removing "ulimit -Sv 5000000" from .bashrc allows me to build Julia, or at least advances me to the next, unrelated problem. Thanks.
On Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at 4:40:40 PM UTC+1, Jonathan Anderson wrote: > > I have the same problem (user janders cannot build julia: > https://gist.github.com/JonathanAnderson/7fa10f187c564c864817). I thought > it might be related to a ulimit restriction placed on my userid so I built > with a different userid that has no limit. > > This userid is able to build everything successfully on the same host that > my build failed on. > > The following data point is also interesting.... > > I copied the built software onto a NFS partition that ignores ownership > and everything is a+rwx > * When I run this build as the userid that built the software, I can run > the build > * If I run as the userid researcher, I can run this build > * If I run as my original userid (janders) I get the "could not allocate > pools" > > Here is janders' ulimit -a > > ulimit -a > -t: cpu time (seconds) unlimited > -f: file size (blocks) unlimited > -d: data seg size (kbytes) unlimited > -s: stack size (kbytes) 8192 > -c: core file size (blocks) unlimited > -m: resident set size (kbytes) unlimited > -u: processes 256722 > -n: file descriptors 1024 > -l: locked-in-memory size (kb) unlimited > -v: address space (kb) 8000000 > -x: file locks unlimited > -i: pending signals 256722 > -q: bytes in POSIX msg queues 819200 > -e: max nice 40 > -r: max rt priority unlimited > -N 15: unlimited > > What else can I provide to debug this? > > On Friday, February 27, 2015 at 7:18:55 AM UTC-6, [email protected] > wrote: >> >> Anyone know something about this ? >> >> I did not build the latest Julia (master branch) since about 30 days. >> Now, when I do 'git pull' and 'make' I am getting various error messages: >> >> could not allocate pools >> Aborted >> Makefile:165: recipe for target >> '/home/jlapeyre/software_source/julia/usr/lib/julia/sys0.o' failed >> >> This was a few days ago, so I 'pulled' every once in a while, hoping the >> problem would go away. >> I tried make clean, make cleanall, make distcleanall. Then dependencies >> also fail to build >> I removed even the packages with make -C deps distcleanall. >> >> I have not changed my tool chain since the last successful build. I can't >> recall, but there is a >> chance (but, I think not) that I moved the entire repository from one >> place to another. >> >> Since I don't see any noise about this, something tells me its not a >> common problem. >> >> --John >> >
