[cctbxbb] cif parser & ccp4 mon_lib incompatibility

Nathaniel Echols nechols at lbl.gov
Thu Apr 11 11:44:12 PDT 2013


Okay, this problem should be fixed in the latest SVN revision - James,
could you please update and let us know if you're still seeing
problems?

-Nat

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Nathaniel Echols <nechols at lbl.gov> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:17 AM, James Stroud <xtald00d at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I downloaded this library, but its failing. Do you know what I'm doing wrong?
>>
>>   File "/usr/local/cctbx/cctbx_sources/mmtbx/monomer_library/server.py", line 226, in __init__
>>     geostd_list_cif_obj = geostd_list_cif()
>>   File "/usr/local/cctbx/cctbx_sources/mmtbx/monomer_library/server.py", line 69, in geostd_list_cif
>>     strict=strict)
>>   File "/usr/local/cctbx/cctbx_sources/mmtbx/monomer_library/server.py", line 56, in __init__
>>     + ", ".join(mon_lib_env_vars))
>> mmtbx.monomer_library.server.MonomerLibraryServerError: Cannot find CCP4 monomer library. Please define one of these environment variables: MMTBX_CCP4_MONOMER_LIB, CLIBD_MON
>
>
> Ah, this I think is genuinely our fault - it is requiring that you
> have a file which is not part of the CCP4 monomer library at all, but
> rather part of a separate curated library ("geostd") which we
> distribute.  This is clearly a bug; I'll bug the relevant parties.  I
> think you're doing everything else correctly, though.  For now, there
> are a couple of things to try:
>
> 1) "touch $MMTBX_CCP4_MONOMER_LIB/list/geostd_list.cif"  which may or
> may not work.
>
> 2) Just pull out the entire chem_data tree from a Phenix installation
> and dump it in /usr/local/cctbx.  Since we want to make this freely
> redistributable anyway, this will be a viable long-term solution (and
> since it's actually causing problems that this isn't readily
> available, I will see if I can push this quickly).
>
> But we may have a fix for the crash soon - will post a follow-up if
> and when it's committed to SVN.
>
> -Nat


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