[petsc-dev] Titan error

[Mark Adams]

Well, it does work.  They changed the directory structure and my configure
scripts were out of date.  (I did not manually check the path name this
time.)
Mark

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
>   Did you do as Satish suggested and follow the steps we use to test for
> write access by creating the directory; first in the shell and then from
> python? Did it work?
>
>   Barry
>
> > On Jun 8, 2015, at 5:32 PM, Mark Adams <mfadams at lbl.gov> wrote:
> >
> > 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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