It's nothing to do with Scala! It's something to do with chaining successive programs in a task I think. I have seen it happen but I can't remember what the cause is
Phil
On 8 Mar 2013, at 11:49, Frank von Delft <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> (Is it time to change the macabre title of this thread? If I were Phil it'd give me a jolt every time time I read it... "what have I wrought!")
>
> phx
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> On 08/03/2013 11:35, Tim Gruene wrote:
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>> Dear Roger,
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>> apart from Francois' suggestion using strace you can also check the
>> space available in /tmp, the amount of memory available on these
>> machines (using the command 'free') and run memcheck to test the
>> memories health.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tim
>>
>> On 03/07/2013 06:47 PM, Roger Rowlett wrote:
>>> OK, here is a strange one: I have 4 client machines (3 absolutely
>>> identical hardware) all running ccp4i from a central server and 2
>>> of the 4 machines (always the same 2) will fail when running a
>>> certain scala job with a "child killed" error. I can run the same
>>> job on the 2 "good" machines. All the machines call the same ccp4
>>> source file in .tcshrc. I'm stumped. It's probably some sort of
>>> cryptic permissions error or something like that. Anyone seen
>>> anything like this and have some clue as to the origin of the
>>> crash? AFAIK, it only happens running scala in 6.3.0. The home
>>> directories for users are served via NFS, but that should be the
>>> same for all machines.
>>>
>>> Log file follows:
>>>
>>>
>>> <!-- CCP4 HTML LOGFILE --> <pre>#CCP4I VERSION CCP4Interface 2.2.0
>>> #CCP4I SCRIPT LOG scala #CCP4I DATE 05 Mar 2013 14:28:22 #CCP4I
>>> USER xrdcamp4 #CCP4I PROJECT chem385 #CCP4I JOB_ID 4 #CCP4I SCRATCH
>>> /tmp/xrdcamp4 #CCP4I HOSTNAME malagueta #CCP4I PID 18904 </pre>
>>>
>>> ***************************************************************************
>>>
>>>
>> * Information from CCP4Interface script
>>> ***************************************************************************
>>>
>>>
>> The program run with command: /usr/local/xtal/ccp4-6.3.0/bin/scala HKLIN
>>> "/home/xrdcamp4/chem385/Chem385-2013Srefinaloutput.mtz" HKLOUT
>>> "/tmp/xrdcamp4/chem385_4_1_mtz.tmp" SCALES
>>> "/home/xrdcamp4/chem385/chem385_4.scala" ROGUES
>>> "/home/xrdcamp4/chem385/chem385_4_rogues.log" NORMPLOT
>>> "/home/xrdcamp4/chem385/chem385_4_normplot.xmgr" ANOMPLOT
>>> "/home/xrdcamp4/chem385/chem385_4_anomplot.xmgr" PLOT
>>> "/home/xrdcamp4/chem385/chem385_4_surface_plot.plt" CORRELPLOT
>>> "/home/xrdcamp4/chem385/chem385_4_correlplot.xmgr" ROGUEPLOT
>>> "/home/xrdcamp4/chem385/chem385_4_rogueplot.xmgr" has failed with
>>> error message child killed: kill signal
>>> ***************************************************************************
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> #CCP4I TERMINATION STATUS 0 "child killed: kill signal" #CCP4I
>>> TERMINATION TIME 05 Mar 2013 14:28:22 #CCP4I MESSAGE Task failed
>>>
>>>
>> - -- - --
>> Dr Tim Gruene
>> Institut fuer anorganische Chemie
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