[Rivet] Rivet in athena

[Ulla Blumenschein]

Many thanks, Andy!
Ulla

On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Andy Buckley <andy.buckley at cern.ch> wrote:
> Hi Ulla,
>
> I'm not sure about a CVMFS path, but 1.8.3 is installed in the
> MCGenerators_lcgcmt* directories: the MCGenerators_hepmc* ones have not
> been updated for some time, I think, since we moved to using Genser
> trees based on fixed external lib versions for the full LCGCMT suite
> (e.g. things like FastJet) rather than just for HepMC.
>
> Andy
>
>
> On 03/11/13 21:21, Ulla Blumenschein wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Since we are discussng setups:
>> What is the correct cvmfs path for a reasonably recent and stable
>> Rivet version?
>> On SLC5, I have so far been using 1.8.2 from afs:
>> /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/MCGenerators_hepmc2.06.05/rivet/1.8.2/
>>
>> Cheers, Ulla
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Andy Buckley <andy.buckley at cern.ch> wrote:
>>> Hi Liron,
>>>
>>> For some reason you are setting up an Athena Rivet environment *and* a
>>> standalone one. My guess is that they are not compatible and ROOT is the
>>> first thing to fall over. You are also mixing HepMC / LCGCMT versions in
>>> the versions of Rivet and AGILe that you are sourcing -- that will cause
>>> problems, too.
>>>
>>> If you want to run Rivet in Athena, just run asetup: nothing else is
>>> needed. You shouldn't need to explicitly set the --cmtconfig flag
>>> either, unless you are running on SLC6 but really want to run an SLC5
>>> ATLAS build (why?)
>>>
>>> If you want to run the Rivet standalone scripts, i.e. without Athena
>>> involved, then your setup script is probably ok, except for the AGILe
>>> part which introduces a clashing version of HepMC. The MCGenerators_XXXX
>>> dir in the paths should contain the same XXXX in all cases otherwise you
>>> will pick up inconsistent library copies and who knows what will happen.
>>>
>>> A problem with Rivet in Athena is that we've not yet managed to get the
>>> scripts (rivet, rivet-mkanalysis, rivet-buildplugin, rivet-mkhtml, ...)
>>> into the Athena PATH in a fully consistent way. If you use recent
>>> nightlies you will be able to run some of them on lxplus: rivet,
>>> rivet-mkanalysis, and rivet-buildplugin should all work. But the
>>> plotting scripts don't yet work from Athena -- because the Python
>>> packages aren't installed into the Athena install area: Thomas Balestri
>>> is working on solving that at the moment -- so to plot your output files
>>> you will need to open a separate terminal with the standalone setup.
>>>
>>> Hope that helps,
>>> Andy
>>>
>>>
>>> On 03/11/13 00:00, Liron Barak wrote:
>>>> Dear Experts,
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure what is the right mailing list, so I've tried both...
>>>> Starting from Thursday night, I have problems running rivet in athena, I do:
>>>> asetup --cmtconfig=x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt 17.2.11.9,here OR asetup
>>>> --cmtconfig=x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt 17.2.11.12,here (tried with both options)
>>>> cd /tmp/ChargedPOWHEG1/
>>>> source setupRivet.sh
>>>> athena JO_rivet_mine.py
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I get:
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>   File
>>>> "/cvmfs/atlas.cern.ch/repo/sw/software/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/17.2.11/AtlasProduction/17.2.11.9/InstallArea/jobOptions/AthenaCommon/Preparation.py
>>>> <http://atlas.cern.ch/repo/sw/software/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/17.2.11/AtlasProduction/17.2.11.9/InstallArea/jobOptions/AthenaCommon/Preparation.py>",
>>>> line 86, in <module>
>>>>     import PyCintex
>>>>   File
>>>> "/cvmfs/atlas.cern.ch/repo/sw/software/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/17.2.11/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.30.05/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/PyCintex.py
>>>> <http://atlas.cern.ch/repo/sw/software/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/17.2.11/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.30.05/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/PyCintex.py>",
>>>> line 21, in <module>
>>>>     import libPyROOT
>>>> ImportError:
>>>> /cvmfs/atlas.cern.ch/repo/sw/software/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/17.2.11/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.30.05/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libPyROOT.so
>>>> <http://atlas.cern.ch/repo/sw/software/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/17.2.11/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.30.05/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/lib/libPyROOT.so>:
>>>> undefined symbol: _ZN7TObject11ShowMembersER16TMemberInspector, ROOT
>>>> version or setup problem?
>>>>
>>>> It worked last Monday....
>>>> The setupRivet.sh is;
>>>> test -n "$LCGTAG" || LCGTAG=x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt
>>>>
>>>> export PATH=/afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/Python/2.6.5/$LCGTAG/bin:$PATH
>>>> <http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/Python/2.6.5/$LCGTAG/bin:$PATH>
>>>> export
>>>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/Python/2.6.5/$LCGTAG/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>>>> <http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/Python/2.6.5/$LCGTAG/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH>
>>>> export PATH=/afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/swig/1.3.40/$LCGTAG/bin:$PATH
>>>> <http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/swig/1.3.40/$LCGTAG/bin:$PATH>
>>>> source /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/contrib/gcc/4.3/$LCGTAG/setup.sh
>>>> <http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/contrib/gcc/4.3/$LCGTAG/setup.sh>
>>>> source
>>>> /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/MCGenerators/professor/1.3.1/$LCGTAG/setup.sh
>>>> <http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/MCGenerators/professor/1.3.1/$LCGTAG/setup.sh>
>>>> source
>>>> /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/MCGenerators_lcgcmt64/rivet/1.8.1/$LCGTAG/rivetenv.sh
>>>> <http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/MCGenerators_lcgcmt64/rivet/1.8.1/$LCGTAG/rivetenv.sh>
>>>> source
>>>> /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/MCGenerators_hepmc2.06.05/agile/1.4.0/$LCGTAG/agileenv.sh
>>>> <http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/MCGenerators_hepmc2.06.05/agile/1.4.0/$LCGTAG/agileenv.sh>
>>>>
>>>> export LATEXINPUTS=$LATEXINPUTS:$TEXMFHOME//
>>>> export TEXINPUTS=$TEXINPUTS:$TEXMFHOME//
>>>>
>>>> export RIVET_ANALYSIS_PATH=$PWD:$RIVET_ANALYSIS_PATH
>>>> mkfifo /tmp/$USER/hepmc.fifo%
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Any idea?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot
>>>> Liron
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dr Andy Buckley, Royal Society University Research Fellow
>>> Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow / PH Dept, CERN
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Dr Andy Buckley, Royal Society University Research Fellow
> Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow / PH Dept, CERN



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