musa ghurab wrote:

> "John Burger" mentioned  that "if you kill MERT, it can't recover,  
> because it is not doing atomic updates", so "MERT couldn't restart  
> because it couldn't find the weights file." and that what exactly  
> happened in my case

Just to be clear, I was =suggesting= this might be the case, since I  
have had a similar thing happen to me once.

I didn't get the same message I think Musa did, from this line in mert- 
moses.pl

   open IN, "finished_step.txt" or die "Failed to find the step  
number, failed to read finished_step.txt";

but rather this one:

   open IN, "weights.txt" or die "Can't read weights.txt";

I think the wrapper script deletes weights.txt just before calling  
cmert, so if something happens during cmert, --continue won't work, as  
far as I can tell.

- John Burger
   MITRE

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