Thanks Takanori for the input.
Do you think installing an older/newer version of gs would help? Which one are you using?
What bugs me is that it only occurs with these two jobs (MotionCor, Post-process) - the output log files are all ok for the other jobs tested (ctf, auto-pick and ctfrefine). Is there anything in the way those pdf are generated that could explain the behavior or figure out what's the file system issue?
Thanks,
Best,
Nicolas
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From: Takanori Nakane <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2018 12:42 PM
To: Coudray, Nicolas
Cc: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [ccpem] Empty logfile.pdf with Relion 3 on the tutorial dataset
Hi,
This sounds like a file system issue. That is, ghostscript
does not 'see' the EPS files RELION just created, for some reason.
In past, we had a bug where multiple threads of CtfRefine wrote to
a same file, sometimes corrupting the output. This bug was fixed on July 9th,
one month before we went to public beta testing.
> * when the job fails, if we tried to use the gs command to convert the
> intermediate eps files to pdf, it works
This means EPS outputs are fine.
If EPS files are broken, ghostscript complains.
> * The post-processing job remains stuck in the "running job" section of
> the GUI and no logfile.pdf is produced either.
The GUI thinks the job is still running because logfile.pdf is not there.
Since post-processing does not use multi-threading, this also excludes the
possibility of the above mentioned bug.
Best regards,
Takanori Nakane
> Hi -
>
> Thanks a lot for the feedback, Sjors - We have made some more tests and
> these are the observations:
>
> * the MotionCor2 jobs sometimes fails to produce the final logfile.pdf:
> the file exists but is empty or very small (a few kb, and cannot be
> opened; "The file has been damaged" message obtained)
>
> * When the generation of the logfile fails, no error message is seen in
> either run.out or run.err. The run.out still ends with this message
>
> " Generating logfile.pdf ...
>
> 0/ 0 sec
> ............................................................~~(,_,">
> Done! Written: MotionCorr/job055/logfile.pdf and
> MotionCorr/job055/corrected_micrographs.star
> Program finished with exit code 0 at: Thu Sep 13 16:17:45 EDT 2018"
>
> * We tried on different nodes (we have some with 4 or 8 gpus). For some
> reasons, some of the jobs do generate the logfile.pdf properly (it seems
> random, though it tends to fail more on nodes with 4 gpus). In all cases,
> if we check the intermediate eps files, they look the same and correct.
>
> * when the job fails, if we tried to use the gs command to convert the
> intermediate eps files to pdf, it works
>
> * if we run the jobs directly from the command line as suggested, the
> logfile is created properly (command line corresponding to the job that
> failed when submitted to the queue and by logging into the same node
> before running the command)
>
>
> Other behavior we have observed and which might be related:
>
> * The post-processing job remains stuck in the "running job" section of
> the GUI and no logfile.pdf is produced either. There is no error message
> seen in run.err and run.out ends with:
>
> " + FINAL RESOLUTION: 3.62045
>
> Program finished with exit code 0 at: Fri Sep 14 11:25:42 EDT 2018"
>
> When I check the list of jobs running on the cluster, the post-processing
> job ID cannot be seen and if I log into the node, no relion job is running
> anymore.
>
>
> We're using gs 9.07, if that matters.
>
>
> If anyone has any idea, thanks for letting us know.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Best,
>
> Nicolas
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Sjors Scheres <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, September 8, 2018 1:00 PM
> To: Coudray, Nicolas
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [ccpem] Empty logfile.pdf with Relion 3 on the tutorial
> dataset
>
> Hi Nicolas,
> RELION will make a system call to "gs" to combine the EPS files into a
> single logfile.pdf. If it fails, it should write to stderr. Did you see
> such an error in the run.err of those directories? You could try executing
> the command from the command line to find out what the problem on your
> system is.
> HTH,
> Sjors
>
> PS: I am pasting the relevant code from src/CPlot2D.cpp in case it helps
> below:
>
>
>
> FileName fn_list = fn_pdf + ".lst";
> std::string command = "gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER
> -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=800 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=800 -sOutputFile=";
> command += fn_pdf + " @" + fn_list;
> std::ofstream filelist(fn_pdf + ".lst");
> bool have_at_least_one = false;
> for (int i = 0; i < fn_eps.size(); i++)
> {
> // fn_eps[i] could be a Linux wildcard...
> std::vector<FileName> all_eps_files;
> fn_eps[i].globFiles(all_eps_files);
> fn_eps[i].globFiles(all_eps_files);
> for (long int j= 0; j < all_eps_files.size(); j++)
> {
> if (exists(all_eps_files[j]))
> {
> filelist << all_eps_files[j] << "\n";
> have_at_least_one = true;
> }
> }
> }
> filelist.close();
>
>
>
>> Hi -
>>
>>
>> We are currently testing Relion 3 and have some weird behavior with the
>> pdf files generated during the motion-correction they are empty.
>>
>>
>> We are using the tutorial dataset and we ran several very similar
>> Motion
>> Correction jobs; 11 out of 15 runs gave empty "logfile.pdf" file (it
>> seems to not depend on the number of GPU or CPUs - it happens for both
>> motioncor and "relioncor" - main parameters in the I/O and Motion tabs
>> were not changed). Also, the eps files of the movies all seem ok though
>> (non-empty, can be converted to pdf with ps2pdf and can be open
>> properly) and none of the run generate any error message.
>>
>>
>> Does anyone know how to solve this issue or how we could track down
>> its
>> origin?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Nicolas
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