Hi - yes, this sounds familiar and I thought was fixed - are you definitely running the latest sub-version of FSL / randomise patch? Cheers. On 30 Nov 2009, at 01:09, Agatha Lenartowicz wrote: > Hi all ~ > > I have recently conducted a bunch of masked (i.e., ROI) analyses > using randomise (and randomise_parallel). I observed that the > program got *stuck* every now and then - without error output. On > the cluster the submitted job was reported "running", and when > running locally the program would get stuck at the second > permutation (i.e., first attempt to permute original input). All of > my log files showed that all was well... and yet, no new files were > being produced. > > Since this typically occurred when the mask (-m mask.nii.gz) was > anatomically small - I wondered whether the problem was that there > were no non-zero statistics in the map which was somehow confusing > the script. It turned out that this was true in all the cases in > which I checked. > > So... I don't know if I've diagnosed correctly but there is > definitely something funky going on, and which can force randomise > to a halt without producing error messages. > > The command I used is below - if you'd like to check out my inputs > I'd be happy to upload them... > # sge qsub randomise_parallel -i ${DATA_PATH} \ > # -o ${CONTRAST}_${ROI_NAME[ROI]}_pos \ > # -m ${MASK_PATH}/${ROI_NAME[ROI]}.nii.gz \ > # -1 \ > # -v 8 \ > # -T \ > # -V > > Best ~ > Agatha > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Agatha Lenartowicz, Ph.D. > Post Doctoral Scholar > Laboratory of R.A. Poldrack > www.poldracklab.org > > UCLA Department of Psychology > 1285 Franz Hall, Box 951563 > Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1563 > > http://alenarto.bol.ucla.edu/ > > > > > On Oct 28, 2008, at 7:04 PM, Koene Van Dijk wrote: > >> For who is looking for the file "colourbar.nii.gz" that was >> mentioned in >> this thread. It is still attached to the post by Mark Jenkinson on >> this >> subject "fslview LUT color bar" (09-01-2008) >> >> This is the location of the attachment: >> http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A3=ind0801&L=FSL&E=base64&P=458288&B=--Apple-Mail-3-372292755&T=application%2Fx-gzip;%20name=%22colourbar.nii.gz%22&N=colourbar.nii.gz&attachment=q >> >> Thanks Mark, because I used it again today, >> >> Cheers, >> Koene > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen M. Smith, Professor of Biomedical Engineering Associate Director, Oxford University FMRIB Centre FMRIB, JR Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK +44 (0) 1865 222726 (fax 222717) [log in to unmask] http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~steve ---------------------------------------------------------------------------