[Rivet] It's a rivet bug ... 90% sure

[Andy Buckley]

Hi Chris,

Glad it works (and that you think the plots are beautiful!).

I've added an item on this phenomenon to 
http://projects.hepforge.org/rivet/trac/wiki/TroubleShooting , which due 
to the link in the left navigation menu is hopefully one of the first 
places that people will look... did you?

I think we're ready for a 1.7.0 release now...

Andy


On 11/11/11 09:55, Christopher Lester wrote:
>
>
> Having done:
>
> bash-3.2$ export
> TEXINPUTS=$TEXINPUTS:/atlas/lester/usr/local/share/Rivet/texmf/tex/:
> bash-3.2$ echo $TEXINPUTS
> .:/usr/share/texmf/tex//:/usr/share/texmf/bibtex//:/usera/lester/LESTERHOME/proj/latex:/usera/lester/LESTERHOME/proj/papers/STYLES//:/atlas/lester/usr/local/share/Rivet/texmf/tex/:
>
> bash-3.2$
>
>
> to the env as previously submitted to you, then
> I find that both
>
> rivet-mkhtml Rivet.aida
>
> and
>
> rivet-mkhtml Rivet_moo.aida
>
> perform equally successfully - both make non-blank plots.
>
> ---
>
> So that's good!
>
> So did I do something wrong in my installation? I've had another look at
>
> http://projects.hepforge.org/rivet/trac/wiki/GettingStarted
>
> and I don't see any bits that I missed that would have made me
> check/alter my TEXINPUTS path .... is there some missing documentation
> there? Given that Rivet.aida make beautiful plots, it would have taken
> me a long time (without your expert help) to track down the fault to
> missing TEXINPUTS path ...
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> On Thu, 10 Nov 2011, Frank Siegert wrote:
>
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> On 10/11/11 19:20, Christopher Lester wrote:
>>>
>>> $LATEXINPUTS is blank, but I do have a semi-custom $TEXINPUTS
>>>
>>> bash-3.2$ echo $TEXINPUTS
>>> .:/usr/share/texmf/tex//:/usr/share/texmf/bibtex//:/usera/lester/LESTERHOME/proj/latex:/usera/lester/LESTERHOME/proj/papers/STYLES//
>>>
>>
>> If I'm not mistaken, this should include
>> ${prefix}/share/Rivet/texmf/tex/ and end with a ":". Could you try
>> whether that helps?
>>
>> Best,
>> Frank
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> My full env is attached as moo.txt.
>>>
>>> Also attached are success.tgz containing Rivet.aida and the plots dir
>>> made from it, and failure.tgz containing Rivet_moo.aida, and the
>>> (failed, blank) plots made from it.
>>>
>>> (rm -rf plots was done between runs)
>>>
>>>
>>>> I just did a similar test with some output from another test:
>>>>
>>>> cp Rivet.aida with_underscore.aida
>>>> compare-histos with_underscore.aida
>>>> make-plots *.dat
>>>>
>>>> and everything worked fine. The path element /with_underscore.aida/...
>>>> does exist in the .dat files, but make-plots is apparently escaping it
>>>> as it should.
>>>>
>>>> The only things I can think of are that you have an old version of
>>>> Rivet from before when we fixed this (1.6.0 should be safe; my
>>>> trunk-about-to-become-1.7.0 version certainly seems to be), or perhaps
>>>> that you have a local custom setting of LATEXINPUTS or similar that
>>>> means that underscore.sty is not visible to LaTeX? Rivet's setup
>>>> script installs some LaTeX packages like that which sometimes aren't
>>>> available on crappy SLC5, but if your LaTeX setup overwrites the Rivet
>>>> part of the TeX path then you might be out of luck. This is fixable,
>>>> though!
>>>>
>>>> Hope that helps,
>>>> Andy
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 04/11/11 14:54, Christopher Lester wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm now 90% sure its a rivet bug ...
>>>>>
>>>>> At first I thought the problem was that Rivet didn't like the aida
>>>>> file
>>>>> to have the name [ANALYSIS].aida ... but I disproved that by
>>>>> checking I
>>>>> could rename other analyses' aida files without problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> What I have now found, is that the problem seems only to occur when I
>>>>> rename the aida file to have an underscore "_" in it.
>>>>>
>>>>> So:
>>>>>
>>>>> rivet-mkhtml Rivet.aida ; # Works!
>>>>>
>>>>> cp Rivet.aida Moo.aida
>>>>> rivet-mkhtml Moo.aia ; # Works!
>>>>>
>>>>> cp Rivet.aida Moo_moo.aida
>>>>> rivet-mkhtml Moo_moo.aia ; # Fails!
>>>>>
>>>>> #(blank plots)
>>>>>
>>>>> I hope that helps.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, for the moment I now have a work around ...
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, 4 Nov 2011, Christopher Lester wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Attached are three identical files differing only in name. Rivet.aida
>>>>>> was generated from a rivet analysis called LESTER_TEST1. THe other
>>>>>> two
>>>>>> files are just copies of the same Aida file, but with different
>>>>>> names:
>>>>>> Moo.aida and LESTER_TEST1.aida.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I find it very odd, then, that
>>>>>>
>>>>>> rivet-mkhtml Rivet.aida
>>>>>> rivet-mkhtml Moo.aida
>>>>>>
>>>>>> both work as expected (i.e. make sensible plots) but
>>>>>>
>>>>>> rivet-mkhtml LESTER_TEST1.aida
>>>>>>
>>>>>> makes "blank" plots ... i.e. goes through all the motions of
>>>>>> producing
>>>>>> png and pdf files and a web page and all ... but makes all the plots
>>>>>> as uniform expanses of white canvas with nothing on.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is this a bug or a feature?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -------------------------------------
>>>>> Christopher Lester 01223 690509
>>>>> 59 Mulberry Close, Cambridge, CB4 2AS
>>>>> -----------------------------------------------------
>>>>> Dr Christopher Lester Tel: +44 (0)1223 337232
>>>>> Room 952, Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory
>>>>> JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Dr Andy Buckley
>>>> SUPA Advanced Research Fellow
>>>> Particle Physics Experiment Group, University of Edinburgh
>>>>
>>>> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
>>>> Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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Dr Andy Buckley
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Particle Physics Experiment Group, University of Edinburgh

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