[FLASH-USERS] bug output at test setup Sedov

[Nathan Hearn]

Hi Diederik,

    Mac OS X tends to use the name under the Networks preferences
(typically a name followed by ".local"), rather than the DNS entry for
the machine.  The easiest way to correct this problem is to specify an
explicit site name when running Flash's setup script.

    Adding the option

-site=myhostname

to the setup call (where "myhostname" is the name of the appropriate
directory in the FLASH3/sites directory) should work.


- Nathan


On Jan 10, 2008 9:25 AM, Diederik Kruijssen <kruijssen at astro.uu.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am experiencing difficulties very early on when installing
> Flash3.0beta on my Mac PowerBook G4, with MPICH2v1.0.5 and HDF5v1.6.6.
> When setting up for the Sedov blast wave test problem, it gives the
> following output:
>
> ===============================
> Processing Shortcut file:
> /Users/Diederik/Documents/work/FLASH3.0_beta/bin/setup_shortcuts.txt
> checking for needed files and directories
>
> A setup internal error has occured, if possible please email the
> following
> debugging info to flash-bugs at flash.uchicago.edu
> Arguments: ['/Users/Diederik/Documents/work/FLASH3.0_beta/bin/
> setup.py', 'Sedov', '-auto']
> Python Version: 2.3.5
> Platform Details: darwin
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/Users/Diederik/Documents/work/FLASH3.0_beta/bin/setup.py",
> line 232, in ?
>      main()
>    File "/Users/Diederik/Documents/work/FLASH3.0_beta/bin/setup.py",
> line 49, in main
>      machDir = determineMachine()
>    File "/Users/Diederik/Documents/work/FLASH3.0_beta/bin/utils.py",
> line 154, in determineMachine
>      hostname = getHostName(siteDir)
>    File "/Users/Diederik/Documents/work/FLASH3.0_beta/bin/utils.py",
> line 76, in getHostName
>      temp = socket.gethostbyaddr(socket.gethostname())
> socket.herror: (1, 'Unknown host')
> ==============================
>
> Of this, only the first two lines are as they should be. It appears
> setup can't find the hostname, but if this is true, how should it be
> fixed?
> It requests to send an email to flash-bugs, but since only developers
> are members of that list, I'm trying it this way.
>
> Thank you very much for your help in advance,
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Diederik Kruijssen