[Rivet] Problems installing rivet

[Andy Buckley]

I think your version of Python is fine, but it looks like somehow you
have managed to build Rivet with a different compiler/libc from the
machine that you are running on. Did you build on a different machine
than the on you are trying to use, or set up a special compiler by
sourcing a script?

Andy


On 23/02/11 11:09, Alex Schofield wrote:
> *Thanks for the replies.
> 
> I have attached the config.log from the bootstrap installation.
> 
> From your suggestions I have run the commands*
> 
> bash-3.2$ export
> PYTHONPATH=/afs/hep.man.ac.uk/u/alexschof/Programs/Rivet/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/:$PYTHONPATH
> <http://hep.man.ac.uk/u/alexschof/Programs/Rivet/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/:$PYTHONPATH>
> bash-3.2$ source rivetenv.sh
> bash-3.2$ rivet -v
> rivet requires the 'rivet' Python module
> /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.9' not found (required
> by
> /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/HepMC/2.06.03/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/lib/libHepMC.so.4
> <http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/HepMC/2.06.03/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/lib/libHepMC.so.4>)
> 
> *I receive the same error from python:*
> 
> Python 2.4.3 (#1, Jan 13 2011, 20:52:03)
> [GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import rivet
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/PIL/__init__.py", line 16, in ?
>    
>   File
> "/afs/hep.man.ac.uk/u/alexschof/Programs/InstallFiles/Rivet-1.4.0/pyext/build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.4/rivet/rivetwrap.py
> <http://hep.man.ac.uk/u/alexschof/Programs/InstallFiles/Rivet-1.4.0/pyext/build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.4/rivet/rivetwrap.py>",
> line 5, in ?
> ImportError: /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.9' not
> found (required by
> /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/HepMC/2.06.03/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/lib/libHepMC.so.4
> <http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/HepMC/2.06.03/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/lib/libHepMC.so.4>)
> 
> *, though lighthisto now imports correctly:*
> 
>>>> import lighthisto
>>>>
> 
> *A google search suggested that the problem was due to an outdated
> version of GLIBC, which I checked by
> 
> *bash-3.2$ rpm -q glibc
> glibc-2.5-49.el5_5.7
> glibc-2.5-49.el5_5.7
> 
> *Is this the cause of my problem? Also, could my older version of python
> be causing some problems?
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex
> *
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Andy Buckley <andy.buckley at ed.ac.uk
> <mailto:andy.buckley at ed.ac.uk>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Alex,
> 
>     Can you send us a copy of your config.log file? It looks to me like
>     either the Rivet Python module has not been built at all (possible if
>     the Python development headers e.g. Python.h are not present on your
>     machine) or that it has been built but is not present in your
>     PYTHONPATH.
> 
>     To get a bit more information, can you try running "rivet -v" to get
>     more verbose information about the failed loading of the "rivet" module
>     and send us the output. Also, try running "python" to get to the Python
>     interpreter prompt, and type "import rivet": the output from that would
>     also be useful... and maybe enough to help *you* find out why the module
>     isn't being loaded :)
> 
>     Cheers,
>     Andy
> 
> 
>     On 22/02/11 14:15, Alex Schofield wrote:
>     > *I've been trying to install Rivet on both my linux machine (running
>     > SL5) and my mac (10.6) and i've encountered several problems. I have
>     > been able to install Rivet using both the manual way and the bootstrap
>     > script but neither works after installation. I'm relatively new to
>     > installing unix based software so I may just have missed something. My
>     > last attempt to install Rivet is as follows. First I ran the
>     > rivet-boostrap after setting up the compilers as stated on the
>     website*
>     >
>     > -bash-3.2$ export
>     >
>     PATH=/afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/swig/1.3.40/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/bin:$PATH
>     <http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/swig/1.3.40/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/bin:$PATH>
>     >
>     <http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/swig/1.3.40/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/bin:$PATH>
>     > -bash-3.2$ source
>     > /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/contrib/gcc/4.3/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/setup.sh
>     <http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/contrib/gcc/4.3/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/setup.sh>
>     > <http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/contrib/gcc/4.3/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/setup.sh>
>     > -bash-3.2$ ./rivet-bootstrap --install-boost
>     > --prefix=/afs/hep.man.ac.uk/u/alexschof/Programs/Rivet
>     <http://hep.man.ac.uk/u/alexschof/Programs/Rivet>
>     > <http://hep.man.ac.uk/u/alexschof/Programs/Rivet>
>     > Getting http://www.hepforge.org/archive/rivet/Rivet-1.4.0.tar.gz
>     > Downloading http://www.hepforge.org/archive/rivet/Rivet-1.4.0.tar.gz
>     > Installing a local copy of Boost
>     > Downloading
>     >
>     http://downloads.sourceforge.net/boost/boost_1_44_0.tar.gz?use_mirror=mesh
>     > LCG area available: using LCG-built packages
>     > Using LCG platform tag = x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt
>     > Configuring in
>     >
>     /afs/hep.man.ac.uk/u/alexschof/Programs/InstallFiles/build/Rivet-1.4.0
>     <http://hep.man.ac.uk/u/alexschof/Programs/InstallFiles/build/Rivet-1.4.0>
>     >
>     <http://hep.man.ac.uk/u/alexschof/Programs/InstallFiles/build/Rivet-1.4.0>:
>     > ./configure --prefix=/afs/hep.man.ac.uk/u/alexschof/Programs/Rivet
>     <http://hep.man.ac.uk/u/alexschof/Programs/Rivet>
>     > <http://hep.man.ac.uk/u/alexschof/Programs/Rivet>
>     > --with-lcgtag=x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt
>     >
>     --with-hepmc=/afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/HepMC/2.06.03/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt
>     <http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/HepMC/2.06.03/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt>
>     > <http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/HepMC/2.06.03/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt>
>     > --with-boost=/afs/hep.man.ac.uk/u/alexschof/Programs/Rivet
>     <http://hep.man.ac.uk/u/alexschof/Programs/Rivet>
>     > <http://hep.man.ac.uk/u/alexschof/Programs/Rivet>
>     >
>     --with-fastjet=/afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/fastjet/2.4.2/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt
>     <http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/fastjet/2.4.2/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt>
>     > <http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/fastjet/2.4.2/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt>
>     > --disable-pdfmanual
>     >
>     --with-gsl=/afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/GSL/1.10/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt
>     <http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/GSL/1.10/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt>
>     > <http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/GSL/1.10/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt>
>     >
>     --with-gslcblas=/afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/GSL/1.10/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt
>     <http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/GSL/1.10/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt>
>     > <http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/GSL/1.10/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt>
>     > Building in
>     >
>     /afs/hep.man.ac.uk/u/alexschof/Programs/InstallFiles/build/Rivet-1.4.0
>     <http://hep.man.ac.uk/u/alexschof/Programs/InstallFiles/build/Rivet-1.4.0>
>     >
>     <http://hep.man.ac.uk/u/alexschof/Programs/InstallFiles/build/Rivet-1.4.0>:
>     > make -j2 && make -j2 install
>     >
>     > All done. Now set some variables in your shell by sourcing, for
>     bash shell:
>     >
>     > source rivetenv.sh
>     >
>     > or for csh shell:
>     >
>     > source rivetenv.csh
>     >
>     >
>     > *Rivet seems to have successfully installed, but when I try to run
>     it I
>     > receive the following message:*
>     >
>     > -bash-3.2$ source rivetenv.sh
>     > -bash-3.2$ rivet
>     > rivet requires the 'rivet' Python module
>     > No module named rivet
>     > -bash-3.2$ rivet -h
>     > *
>     > It seems like i'm able to run the analyses inside Herwig++ since there
>     > are no complaints at run time and there is a .aida file generated.
>     > However, when I try to convert to a flat data file I receive the
>     error:*
>     >
>     > -bash-3.2$ aida2flat TVT.aida
>     > Traceback (most recent call last):
>     >   File
>     "/afs/hep.man.ac.uk/u/alexschof/Programs/Rivet/bin/aida2flat
>     <http://hep.man.ac.uk/u/alexschof/Programs/Rivet/bin/aida2flat>
>     > <http://hep.man.ac.uk/u/alexschof/Programs/Rivet/bin/aida2flat>", line
>     > 13, in ?
>     >     import lighthisto
>     > ImportError: No module named lighthisto
>     >
>     > *I got past this by copying lighthisto.py into the bin folder (is
>     there
>     > a better way?) which gave me some data files. I now try to run
>     > rivet-mkhtml and get
>     >
>     > *-bash-3.2$ rivet-mkhtml
>     > Traceback (most recent call last):
>     >   File
>     "/afs/hep.man.ac.uk/u/alexschof/Programs/Rivet/bin/rivet-mkhtml
>     <http://hep.man.ac.uk/u/alexschof/Programs/Rivet/bin/rivet-mkhtml>
>     > <http://hep.man.ac.uk/u/alexschof/Programs/Rivet/bin/rivet-mkhtml>",
>     > line 19, in ?
>     >     import rivet
>     > ImportError: No module named rivet
>     > rivet is broken... exiting
>     > *
>     > Could you point out where i'm going wrong? If you need more
>     information
>     > please let me know.
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     > Alex*
>     >
>     >
>     >
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> 
>     --
>     Dr Andy Buckley
>     SUPA Advanced Research Fellow
>     Particle Physics Experiment Group, University of Edinburgh
> 
> 


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