RE: [ROOT] how to create a file on Castor with v3.10.02

From: Matthieu LECHOWSKI (lechowsk@lal.in2p3.fr)
Date: Thu Apr 08 2004 - 13:03:55 MEST


--On jeudi 8 avril 2004 11:16 +0200 Olof Barring <olof.barring@cern.ch> 
wrote:

>
>    Does the problem persist? if so, please mail all details to
> Castor.Support@cern.ch . In particular we would need to know
> exactly what the error messages are.
Hello,
The problem is still here. I just have mailed to Castor.Support@cern.ch, 
describing the problem.
Actually, as I said, there is not really error messages, only 
"stage_updc_filcp" 7 times before it stops properly without writing the 
(octets of the) file.

Matthieu.

> Fons, is this using your
> new ROOT version that calls the CASTOR stager API or is the
> old ROOT that only calls RFIO?
>
>                Olof
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Fons Rademakers
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 9:32 PM
>> To: lechowsk@lal.in2p3.fr
>> Cc: roottalk (ROOT Talk mailing list); Olof Barring
>> Subject: Re: [ROOT] how to create a file on Castor with v3.10.02
>>
>>
>> Hi Matthieu,
>>
>>   it might be that the afs version was build with a wrong
>> version of the CASTOR libraries. It also might be a
>> (temporary) CASTOR problem. Hopefully Olof Barring from the
>> CASTOR team can give some hints.
>>
>> Cheers, Fons.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 10:46, Matthieu LECHOWSKI wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I would like to create a file on castor with ROOT, but my
>> usual method
>> > to
>> > do that does not work anymore with the version 3.10.02 of
>> ROOT (on lxplus,
>> > my ROOTSYS is /afs/cern.ch/sw/root/v3.10.02/rh73_gcc2952/root ).
>> >
>> > below a simple example :
>> >
>> > void start()
>> > {
>> >   TFile
>> > *F=TFile::Open("rfio:/castor/cern.ch/user/l/lechowsk/test.root",
>> > "RECREATE");
>> >   TH1F *H=new TH1F("h","h",100,-5,5);
>> >   H->FillRandom("gaus",10000);
>> >   H->Write();
>> >   F->Close();
>> > }
>> >
>> > With 3.5.05 this works, but with 3.10.02 I have the message "
>> > stage_updc_filcp " several times. The file has been created
>> on castor (the
>> > Open works), but has 0 octets (the Close doesn't work).
>> >
>> > Do you know something about that ? Has something changed ?
>> > I see that now there is TCastorFile, I tried it but ROOT
>> doesn't know
>> > it :
>> > Error: Symbol TCastorFile is not defined in current scope
>> > How could I use it ?
>> >
>> > Thank you.
>> >
>> > Matthieu Lechowski.
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>>
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