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Dear Phenix Developers,

I have been experiencing problems with autobuild whenever I try to rebuild an MR model or calculate a composite OMIT map. These tasks always end

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same way: with "[Errno 5] Input/output error". The failure always happens when the run is basically finished and trying to combine the output from multiple tasks. My first thought was that my hard drive was full or fixing to crash, but these problems happen across several machines and have

Dear Nick, I'm sorry for the error ("[Errno 5] Input/output error") that you are getting with your i7-based PC's with Fedora 14. I have not seen this error before, but we can try to debug it with "debug=true" and also I have a work-around for combining the files that you already have created so you don't need to rerun your whole jobs. Can you possibly run this quick test job to try and get it to fail: phenix.autobuild $PHENIX/phenix_regression/wizards/perfect.mtz \ input_labels="FP SIGFP" \ map_file=$PHENIX/phenix_regression/wizards/perfect.mtz \ input_map_labels="FP PHIC FOM" \ seq_file=$PHENIX/phenix_regression/wizards/seq.dat \ resolution=3.0 \ solvent_fraction=.6 \ model=$PHENIX/phenix_regression/wizards/coords.pdb \ rebuild_in_place=True \ n_cycle_rebuild_min=1 \ n_cycle_rebuild_max=1 \ multiple_models=True \ multiple_models_number=1 \ multiple_models_group_number=2 \ highest_resno=200 \ debug=true This takes about 5 minutes. If it fails, can you send me ([email protected], not the list) the end out the output where it gives a traceback of where the error occurred? Combining files from a nearly-complete autobuild run with rebuild-in-place=true You can combine models with autobuild, providing all models have exactly the same set of atoms (aside from any solvent) by editing this script (basically you run a dummy autobuild run to create a directory and database entries, then you copy your files there, then you run autobuild and tell it to carry on and do the combine step): -------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/csh -f #COMBINE_MODELS SCRIPT if (-d PDS || -d AutoBuild_run_1_) then echo "Please run in a directory without PDS or AutoBuild_run_1_" exit 1 endif echo "Setting up combine models with a dummy run. NOTE: multiple_models_group_number must be correct" phenix.autobuild fobs.mtz multiple_models=true seq_file=seq.dat combine_only=true multiple_models_group_number=2 multiple_models_number=1>& dummy_autobuild.log echo "Copying files to AutoBuild_run_1_/MULTIPLE_MODELS" mkdir AutoBuild_run_1_/MULTIPLE_MODELS cp coords1.pdb AutoBuild_run_1_/MULTIPLE_MODELS/initial_model.pdb_1_1 cp coords2.pdb AutoBuild_run_1_/MULTIPLE_MODELS/initial_model.pdb_1_2 cp map_coeffs_1.mtz AutoBuild_run_1_/MULTIPLE_MODELS/initial_model.mtz_1_1 cp map_coeffs_2.mtz AutoBuild_run_1_/MULTIPLE_MODELS/initial_model.mtz_1_2 ls AutoBuild_run_1_/MULTIPLE_MODELS/ echo "Running autobuild to combine files in AutoBuild_run_1_/MULTIPLE_MODELS" phenix.autobuild combine_only=true seq_file=seq.dat carry_on=true run=1 > autobuild_combine.log # END OF COMBINE_MODELS SCRIPT ------------------------------------------------------- Combining OMIT runs that have been run on separate computers or that come from a nearly-completed omit run: You can do this by copying all the individual mtz files with map coefficients for omit regions to a single directory and running a script like this one: (NOTE: you need to ensure that the OMIT regions are defined the same in the runs where you got your overall_best_denmod_map_coeffs.mtz_OMIT_REGION_1 etc files and this run. You ensure that with the n_xyz command that sets the grid. You can copy this from one of your resolve log files created when you ran your omit (i.e., AutoBuild_run_1_/TEMP0/AutoBuild_run_1_/TEMP0/resolve.log will have a line "nu nv nw: 32 32 32 " and you copy those numbers). ------------------------------------ #!/bin/csh -f # COMBINE OMIT SCRIPT phenix.resolve<

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running 1.7-634). The computers that cannot run autobuild successfully are both core i7-based PCs running Fedora 14 (though these problems also occurred running earlier Fedora versions). My older xeon-based PC runs autobuild without any trouble, which makes me think this a core i7-related problem. I have searched the PhenixBB archive and have not turned up any similar problems - have any other users experienced trouble with Phenix and core i7? Is there a work-around I ca n use to manually combine the various outputs? The core i7 machines are so much faster, I would really like to solve this problem so that I can stop relying on my aging xeon PC for these long calculations. I have included the end of two log files for reference. Also, autosol runs fine on the core i7 computers and successfully builds wonderful models from my SeMet SAD data. Thank you for Phenix and for any advice you can give.

Best wishes, Nick Silvaggi

P.S. I apologize if this message appears twice - I sent it once from an address that was not registered with the BB and decided to re-send from a registered address.

Autobuild after MR: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Standard build in parallel starting with refine.pdb_1 This is the first try at building this model Try: 1 building 1 model Try: 2 building 1 model Try: 3 building 1 model Running up to 3 jobs in parallel... with total of 3 jobs

Splitting work into 3 jobs and running with 3 processors using sh background=True in /home/nicks/projects/r51/phenix_mr/AutoBuild_run_2_/TEMP0

Starting job 1...Log will be: /home/nicks/projects/r51/phenix_mr/AutoBuild_run_2_/TEMP0/RUN_FILE_1.log Starting job 2...Log will be: /home/nicks/projects/r51/phenix_mr/AutoBuild_run_2_/TEMP0/RUN_FILE_2.log Starting job 3...Log will be: /home/nicks/projects/r51/phenix_mr/AutoBuild_run_2_/TEMP0/RUN_FILE_3.log Collecting all runs now *************ERROR ENDING *******************

******************************************************************************** Failed to carry out AutoBuild_build_cycle:

[Errno 5] Input/output error ********************************************************************************

*************ERROR ENDING *******************

Calculating SA composite omit map: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Starting job 34...Log will be: /home/nicks/projects/r51/phenix_mr/AutoBuild_run_3_/TEMP0/RUN_FILE_34.log Starting job 35...Log will be: /home/nicks/projects/r51/phenix_mr/AutoBuild_run_3_/TEMP0/RUN_FILE_35.log Starting job 36...Log will be: /home/nicks/projects/r51/phenix_mr/AutoBuild_run_3_/TEMP0/RUN_FILE_36.log Collecting all runs now *************ERROR ENDING *******************

******************************************************************************** Failed to carry out AutoBuild_parallel_omit:

[Errno 5] Input/output error ********************************************************************************

*************ERROR ENDING *******************

Nicholas R Silvaggi, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry 3210 North Cramer St Milwaukee, WI 53211

Office: Chemistry 272B Phone: 414-229-2647 [email protected]

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