[Rivet] Rivet 1.8.3: blank plots nevertheless...

[Andy Buckley]

Hi Cate, sorry for the delay: I'm on Arizona time (and busy)!

For running on lxplus6, you can source the
/afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/experimental/rivet/setup.sh file. I just reinstalled
this demo version after the LCG guys accidentally deleted it *sigh*

For a build on your own machine, you can use the rivet-bootstrap script
(instructions on the Rivet website GettingStarted wiki) with the
--dev-mode flag. You might also need to add some more --install-XXX
flags to pull in extra dependencies: that script is a bit chaotic right
now since it's trying to support both the AIDA and YODA branches: will
be sorted out as soon as we have a stable 2.0.0 release, which now (I
*really* hope) is not far away.

Andy


On 10/08/13 17:44, Caterina Doglioni wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I just tested your fix, works perfectly! I'm still keen to get Rivet2 installed, if you have a bit of time to throw some instructions our way we'll be happy to beta-test it. 
> 
> Thanks!
> Caterina
> ________________________________________
> From: Andy Buckley [andy.buckley at cern.ch]
> Sent: 05 August 2013 16:04
> To: Caterina Doglioni
> Cc: rivet at projects.hepforge.org; Cigdem Issever
> Subject: Re: [Rivet] Rivet 1.8.3: blank plots nevertheless...
> 
> Hi Caterina, all,
> 
> This looks like a really annoying (La)TeX issue that we've encountered
> before. Because TeX is *old* it manages its own memory allocations in a
> way which would be charming if it hadn't made assumptions about the
> maximum memory size that a computer could ever have... and expressed
> them in a system-dependent way.
> 
> I think in this case what's happening is that the texmf.cnf file that
> Rivet installs (it'll be in something like
> $rivet_prefix/share/texmf/text/cnf/texmf.cnf) declares a main_memory
> entry that is being interpreted as too large to be valid by the TeX on
> your system. The default we've set is high to avoid TeX running *out* of
> memory and works on many systems, but you are seeing the opposite
> problem: the number is too big. So try editing that file and taking one
> (or two) zeros off the end of the main_memory entry and try again... and
> let us know if it doesn't work.
> 
> We'd love to find a robust workaround for this: it feels like we're
> walking a fine line between not enough TeX memory and too much! Maybe we
> can have a look at it this week since I'm trying to set aside a bit of
> time to work on getting Rivet2 finalised and YODA/plotting improved a
> bit more.
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
> On 05/08/13 10:49, Caterina Doglioni wrote:
>> Dear Rivet authors,
>>
>> we're trying to follow the tutorial by Andy on the Rivet page and make
>> some plots out of the MC_GENERIC analysis. It seems everything is
>> working out - except that our plots made with make-plots are blank
>> (aida2root let us see them, so everything upstream should have worked
>> out). We shouldn't fall into the category in the troubleshooting page,
>> and we've checked that LATEXINPUTS is set as an env variable. I'm adding
>> the output of make-plots below, and some info on the environment as
>> well, any help is much appreciated!
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Caterina and Cigdem
>>
>> [lxplus420] /afs/cern.ch/user/d/doglioni/Work/ThreeJet/plots/MC_GENERIC
>>> uname -ra
>> Linux lxplus420.cern.ch 2.6.18-348.3.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Mar 12 08:02:37
>> CET 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>> [lxplus420] /afs/cern.ch/user/d/doglioni/Work/ThreeJet/plots/MC_GENERIC
>>> echo $PATH
>> /afs/cern.ch/sw/XML/texlive/latest/bin/i386-linux:/afs/cern.ch/sw/XML/texlive/latest/bin/i386-linux:/afs/cern.ch/user/d/doglioni/Work/ThreeJet/Rivet/bin:/afs/cern.ch/user/d/doglioni/Work/ThreeJet/Rivet/bin:/afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/contrib/gcc/4.3.6/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/bin:/afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/swig/1.3.40/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/bin:/afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/Python/2.6.5/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/bin:/afs/cern.ch/sw/XML/texlive/latest/bin/i386-linux:/afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/contrib/gcc/4.3.2/x86_64-slc5-gcc34-opt/bin:/afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/Python/2.6.2/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/bin:/afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/app/releases/ROOT/5.34.01/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/root/bin:/afs/cern.ch/user/d/doglioni/bin:/afs/cern.ch/user/d/doglioni/scripts:/usr/sue/bin:/afs/cern.ch/atlas/scripts:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin/X11:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/cern/pro/bin:/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/java/jre1.6.0_18/bin
>>
>> [lxplus420] /afs/cern.ch/user/d/doglioni/Work/ThreeJet/plots/MC_GENERIC
>>> make-plots --pdfpng *.dat
>> Making 17 plots
>> Plotting ECh.dat (16 remaining)
>> Plotting E.dat (15 remaining)
>> Plotting EtaCh.dat (14 remaining)
>> Plotting EtaPMRatio.dat (11 remaining)
>> Plotting EtaChPMRatio.dat (13 remaining)
>> Plotting EtaSumEt.dat (10 remaining)
>> Plotting Eta.dat (12 remaining)
>> Plotting MultCh.dat (9 remaining)
>> Plotting Mult.dat (8 remaining)
>> Plotting PhiCh.dat (7 remaining)
>> Plotting Phi.dat (6 remaining)
>> Plotting PtCh.dat (5 remaining)
>> Plotting Pt.dat (4 remaining)
>> Plotting RapidityChPMRatio.dat (1 remaining)
>> Plotting RapidityCh.dat (3 remaining)
>> Plotting Rapidity.dat (1 remaining)
>> dvips: DVI file can't be opened: ECh: No such file or directory
>> dvips: DVI file can't be opened: E: No such file or directory
>> dvips: DVI file can't be opened: EtaPMRatio: No such file or directory
>> dvips: DVI file can't be opened: Phi: No such file or directory
>> dvips: DVI file can't be opened: EtaCh: No such file or directory
>> dvips: DVI file can't be opened: EtaChPMRatio: No such file or directory
>> dvips: DVI file can't be opened: Eta: No such file or directory
>> dvips: DVI file can't be opened: Mult: No such file or directory
>> dvips: DVI file can't be opened: PtCh: No such file or directory
>> dvips: DVI file can't be opened: Rapidity: No such file or directory
>> dvips: DVI file can't be opened: EtaSumEt: No such file or directory
>> dvips: DVI file can't be opened: PhiCh: No such file or directory
>> dvips: DVI file can't be opened: Pt: No such file or directory
>> dvips: DVI file can't be opened: MultCh: No such file or directory
>> dvips: DVI file can't be opened: RapidityCh: No such file or directory
>> dvips: DVI file can't be opened: RapidityChPMRatio: No such file or
>> directory
>> Plotting RapidityPMRatio.dat (0 remaining)
>> dvips: DVI file can't be opened: RapidityPMRatio: No such file or directory
>>
>>
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> 
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> Dr Andy Buckley, Royal Society University Research Fellow
> Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow / PH Dept, CERN
> 


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