[Rivet] installation problems (It works!)

[James Monk]

I just re-built AGILe against HepMC 2.03.08 and still see the seg  
fault when running pythia.  The build of HepMC 2.03.08 has not changed  
(been re-built etc) in the past few months, has it?


On 29 Jul 2008, at 15:30, Andy Buckley wrote:

> James Monk wrote:
>> On 28 Jul 2008, at 22:07, Andy Buckley wrote:
>>> Holger Schulz wrote:
>
>>>> It seems as if Rivet does not work with the generators present at
>>>> /afs/cern...
>>>>
>>>> Out of curiosity I installed a local copy of Pythia 6.418
>>>> (using the mkGenserArea script) on my DESY account
>>>> to see if it works  and it does!
>>>
>>> I just tested the bootstrap script at CERN and, yes, the released
>>> versions of Rivet and AGILe work but the development ones segfault,
>>> citing a HepMC problem. I'm not sure what's going on, but I'll look
>>> into it!
>>
>> I re-installed rivet at CERN using the bootstrap.  It did not find
>> either of Herwig++ or Pythia8 but built FHerwig and FPythia.
>
> James, can you hack the bootstrap script to make AGILe find Herwig++  
> and
> Pythia 8 on AFS? It would be good to have them available, since both  
> now
> work!
>
>> FPythia
>> seg faults like you say, but FHerwig only spews out the following
>> message repeatedly:
>>
>> 	IO_HERWIG::translate_herwig_to_pdg_id HERWIG particle 205 translates
>> to zero.
>>
>> which I guess is not actually a problem.
>
> (I've copied the Genser developers in on this)
>
> Hmm, the 2.3.9 release was specifically to fix problems with  
> IO_HERWIG:
> is this behaviour expected?
>
>> The Pythia seg fault happens
>> somewhere in the HepMC_IO hepevt wrapper.  I see that Genser  
>> installed
>> the new version of HepMC (2.03.09) just last week.
>
> Yes that's what I get. I also get strange behaviour with the
> (unreleased) Genser bootstrap version of Pythia 6, but building the  
> same
> generator with AGILe's mkGenserArea script works! I've not tried a
> stand-alone run with HepMC 2.3.9, though.
>
> Genser people, any comments?
>
> Andy
>