Actually, it seems that a quotation is the wrong style. I re-ran after fixing this. Also tried unset SGE_ROOT. It still tries to fork over jobs to somewhere (I think) Different error messages now: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/fsl/python/mist/mist_script.py", line 256, in <module> do_preproc(sys.argv[2]) File "/usr/local/fsl/python/mist/mist_script.py", line 133, in do_preproc subprocess.check_call(['bet', t1, sdir + '/mist_t1_brain', '-R']) File "/usr/local/fsl/fslpython/envs/fslpython/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 581, in check_call raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd) subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['bet', '/Volumes/NIA_R00/mist_06:2017/test_mist/mist/T1', '/Volumes/NIA_R00/mist_06:2017/test_mist/mist/mist_t1_brain', '-R']' returned non-zero exit status 1 On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 3:34 PM, Anu Venkatesh <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi Eelke, > > Thank you for your quick response! I kept having a suspicion the config > file was the culprit, I've attached the actual input file (I had to tweek > the file a few times because I'm not 100% sure what mist is looking for), > could you help identify this "non-ascii character"? > > As for the SGE, I had tried another options, so I will try your suggestion! > > Thanks again, > Anu > > On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 3:27 PM, Eelke Visser <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > >> Hi Anu, >> >> Looks like you may have a non-ascii character in your mist_filenames file >> - does that make sense? Feel free to attach the file if you don't see >> anything wrong with it. >> >> If you don't have SGE set up it should automatically run locally - you >> can type "unset SGE_ROOT" to be sure. >> >> Hope that helps! >> >> Eelke >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: FSL - FMRIB's Software Library [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On >> Behalf Of Anu Venkatesh >> Sent: 27 June 2017 14:43 >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: [FSL] MIST questions, new FSL update 5.0.10 >> >> Dear FSl support, >> >> I'm starting to play around with MIST (FSL and python novice here), and >> I'm having a lot of trouble with it. I saw it's currently in Beta stage-are >> bugs still being worked out? >> >> First I had some issues with the filenames config file, but after that >> was sorted out, I'm having trouble from the job submissions end. I've >> gotten error messages (posted an example below) and I'm still trying to >> work out how to tell MIST to not look for a SGE (not set up) and just run >> locally. >> >> Help would be very much appreciated! >> >> All the best, >> Anu >> >> error messages: Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "/usr/local/fsl/python/mist/mist_script.py", line 256, in <module> >> do_preproc(sys.argv[2]) >> File "/usr/local/fsl/python/mist/mist_script.py", line 128, in >> do_preproc >> mtypes, scans, vsize = read_config() >> File "/usr/local/fsl/python/mist/mist_script.py", line 93, in >> read_config >> for ln in csv.reader(fnf): >> File "/usr/local/fsl/fslpython/envs/fslpython/lib/python3.5/encodings/ascii.py", >> line 26, in decode >> return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0] >> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 10: >> ordinal not in range(128) >> > >