[Rivet] rivet-bootstrap problem

[Lisa Edelhäuser]

Hi all!

Thanks so much, that really helped :)
Sorry for my stupid question!!!

Cheers,
Lisa

lisa.edelhaeuser at gmx.de

Am 04/18/2013 05:06 PM, schrieb Frank Siegert:
> Hi Lisa, all,
>
> I have had this problem before and it comes from the fact that the
> FastJet server does sometimes not accept connections from command line
> tools (in particular the Python libraries here). As a quick workaround
> you can manually download the tarball
> http://www.fastjet.fr/repo/fastjet-3.0.3.tar.gz into the download/
> directory created by the bootstrap script. The script should then pick
> it up the next time you run it.
>
> But as a real solution maybe we (Rivet developers) should contact the
> FastJet guys about this issue?
>
> Cheers,
> Frank
>
>
> On 18 April 2013 16:53, Lisa Edelhäuser <lisa.edelhaeuser at gmx.de> wrote:
>> Dear Rivet Team!
>> I have a problem using the rivet-bootstrap. This is the output I got after
>> running ./rivet-bootstrap.
>>
>> Rivet-1.8.3.tar.gz  and HepMC-2.06.06.tar.gz downloaded successfully but
>> then:
>>
>> ./rivet-bootstrap
>> Getting http://www.hepforge.org/archive/rivet/Rivet-1.8.3.tar.gz
>> Not overwriting tarball at
>> /home/lisa/daten/uni/mg/rivet/downloads/Rivet-1.8.3.tar.gz
>> Downloading http://www.fastjet.fr/repo/fastjet-3.0.3.tar.gz
>> Problem downloading tarball from
>> http://www.fastjet.fr/repo/fastjet-3.0.3.tar.gz
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>    File "./rivet-bootstrap", line 545, in <module>
>>      get_unpack_tarball(fastjeturl)
>>    File "./rivet-bootstrap", line 311, in get_unpack_tarball
>>      unpack_tarball(outfile) or sys.exit(1)
>>    File "./rivet-bootstrap", line 297, in unpack_tarball
>>      tar = tarfile.open(path)
>>    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 1651, in open
>>      raise ValueError("nothing to open")
>> ValueError: nothing to open
>>
>>
>>
>> An error has occurred while bootstrapping Rivet or one of its dependencies.
>> Sorry!
>> Please contact the Rivet developers at rivet at projects.hepforge.org, with a
>> description of your problem, a copy of this script and any error trace that
>> may have appeared and we'll try to get it fixed as soon as possible. Thanks
>> for your help!
>>
>> I really appreciate your help!
>> Thanks a lot!
>> Cheers,
>> Lisa
>>
>>
>> --
>> lisa.edelhaeuser at gmx.de
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