[petsc-dev] Titan error

[Satish Balay]

This is what you could do:

try reproducing this problem with shell.

mkdir -p /autofs/na3_home1/adams/petsc_master_opt64idx_pgi/PETScTestDirectory
echo $?
rmdir /autofs/na3_home1/adams/petsc_master_opt64idx_pgi/PETScTestDirectory
echo $?

If it succeeds - try reproducing this from python

python
>>> import os
>>> os.makedirs('/autofs/na3_home1/adams/petsc_master_opt64idx_pgi/PETScTestDirectory')
>>> os.rmdir('/autofs/na3_home1/adams/petsc_master_opt64idx_pgi/PETScTestDirectory')

And if it works - try configure again. Perhaps your filesystem was
misbehaving when you ran configure previously.

Satish


On Fri, 5 Jun 2015, Mark Adams 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>
> >
> >
>