[Rivet] problems running rivet

[Andy Buckley]

On 28/02/11 07:17, Hannes Jung wrote:
> Dear Hendrik & Andy
> 
> thanks a lot for your prompt reply (so late on Sunday...)
> 
> Yes, you were absolutely right, it was the wrong beam setting.
> Now it seems to work on lxplus.  Thanks a lot.

Good!

> Could one include somehow a message, when one is using the
> wrong setting ?

It did say "Removing incompatible analysis ATLAS_2010_XXXXXX" before
exiting -- that's meant to be the message. There is time to update that
before our next release, so I'll make it even more explicit.

> Is there a way to see, why I still get a seg fault when running on a mac :
> 
>> rivet -a ATLAS_2010_CONF_2010_031 example_out.dat
> Rivet running on machine Hannes-3.local (i386)
> zsh: segmentation fault  rivet -a ATLAS_2010_CONF_2010_031 example_out.dat

I have no idea what is going wrong there: Macs have often given us build
problems, but the hourly build and test jobs on our testing Mac are (I
think) working ok. You could try running again with the argument -lTRACE
and send us the output. Or run it through gdb -- this can be done with
Python but might be easier using the less functional rivet-nopy program
which exists specifically for this sort of reason.

Andy

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