[cctbxbb] cif parser & ccp4 mon_lib incompatibility

James Stroud xtald00d at gmail.com
Fri Apr 12 09:35:38 PDT 2013


Hi Nat,

On Apr 11, 2013, at 12:44 PM, Nathaniel Echols wrote:
> 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?

I updated via svn and tst_sa.py worked perfectly.

Thanks!

James




> 
> 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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