Re: [ROOT] Merge (chain) problem again

From: Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Date: Tue Aug 14 2001 - 09:45:25 MEST


Hi Luiz,

As I told you yesterday, I am suspecting AFS cache corruption problems
with your files on your machine (or swaping quota). I do not see these
problems when I use your files from a different system.

Rene Brun

Luiz Martins Mundim Filho wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I have posted a message  about problems when merging ntuple files some
> time ago. Rene Brun  tried to reproduce the problem and did not succeed
> and fortunately, it worked fine for me  also after that. But, right now
> I'm getting the  problem again. Look at the output below:
> 
> [lxplus042] /afs/cern.ch/delphi/scratch/m/mundim/wwana > root
>   *******************************************
>   *
>             *
>   *        W E L C O M E  to  R O O T                          *
>   *
>              *
>   *   Version   3.01/06      12 July 2001                        *
>   *
>              *
>   *  You are welcome to visit our Web site                 *
>   *          http://root.cern.ch                                           *
>   *
>              *
>   *******************************************
> 
> Compiled with thread support.
> 
> CINT/ROOT C/C++ Interpreter version 5.15.06, June 30 2001
> Type ? for help. Commands must be C++ statements.
> Enclose multiple statements between { }.
> root [0] TChain chain("h2")
> root [1] chain.Add("wphact20cc_e206.7_c*.root")
> 
>  *** Break *** segmentation violation
> Root >
> 
> Now, even the ".q" command to exit works. Before this output, I got two
> other behaviour. First, the chain.Add command read the 100 files, but
> got a segmentation  violation and some others tries, printed out :
> 
> root [1] chain.Add("wphact20cc_e206.7_c*.root")
> (Int_t)0
> 
> All the 100 files are on   the same directory as I called root
> (/afs/cern.ch/delphi/scratch/m/mundim/wwana).
> 
> Someone knows why am I getting this strange behaviour. The  worst thing
> is that I can not "always"  reproduce the problem, because sometimes it
> works, some times not, with EXACTLY the same  command, on the same
> machine. I will  keep trying till I  succeed, but some help  will be
> very welcome.
> 
> Thank a lot
> 
> Luiz



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