[petsc-dev] Titan error

[Mark Adams]

BTW, it looks like you can configure PETSc from a home directory now on
Titan.

I still get this same permissions error when I try the installation with
the prefix.

Mark

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Mark Adams <mfadams at lbl.gov> wrote:

> This works without prefix.  I tried prefixing to the compute directories,
> where I run config, and got the same error.  Config thinks that it does not
> have permission.  I did see a password prompt at one point.
>
> Treb, I just configured in a normal way and copied the directory into my
> home direcory.  So try:
>
> make PETSC_DIR=/autofs/nccs-svm1_home1/adams/petsc_treb
> PETSC_ARCH=arch-titan-opt64idx-pgi
>
> Mark
>
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Mark Adams <mfadams at lbl.gov> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 10:53 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>   Hmm,
>>>
>>> You do not have write permissions to the --prefix directory
>>> /autofs/na3_home1/adams/petsc_master_opt64idx_pgi
>>>                           You will be prompted for the sudo password for
>>> any external package installs
>>>
>>> ===============================================================================
>>>
>>> Do you have write permission for this directory?
>>>
>>> To test if you have write permission it does the following code:
>>>
>>> def setInstallDir(self):
>>>     ''' setup installDir to either prefix or if that is not set to
>>> PETSC_DIR/PETSC_ARCH'''
>>>     self.installSudo        = ''
>>>     self.installSudoMessage = ''
>>>     if self.framework.argDB['prefix']:
>>>       self.dir = self.framework.argDB['prefix']
>>>       try:
>>>         os.makedirs(os.path.join(self.dir,'PETScTestDirectory'))
>>>         os.rmdir(os.path.join(self.dir,'PETScTestDirectory'))
>>>       except:
>>>         self.installSudoMessage = 'You do not have write permissions to
>>> the --prefix directory '+self.dir+'\nYou will be prompted for the sudo
>>> password for any external package installs'
>>>
>>>
>>> Can you make a directory in /autofs/na3_home1/adams/ ?
>>>
>>
>> This is my home directory:
>>
>> env003/petsc> ll -a /autofs/na3_home1/adams/
>> total 20544
>> drwxr-xr-x   39 adams users    12288 May 16 07:21 .
>> drwxr-xr-x 5027 root  root    163840 May 22 16:05 ..
>> drwxr-xr-x    6 adams adams     4096 Jan  9 07:26 .allinea
>>
>> THis script worked a few months ago.  I will try to build with a prefix,
>> just to see if that is the only problem.
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   Barry
>>>
>>> > On Jun 4, 2015, at 9:43 PM, Mark Adams <mfadams at lbl.gov> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Yet again, this one does have a slightly amusing and slightly baffling
>>> error message though.
>>> > Mark
>>> > <configure.log>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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