Re: parallel pkg unexplainable error

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Moritz Keuthen <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using the octave package parallel and have had increasingly problems. 
> Quite a lot of my last test runs aborted with the following error:
>
> parcellfun: 9/13 jobs doneerror: invalid conversion from real matrix to real 
> scalar
> error: file id must be a file object, std::string, or integer value
> warning: broken pipe
> warning: broken pipe
> warning: broken pipe
> warning: broken pipe
> error: called from:
> error: /home/hpc/t1313/di34koy/octave/parallel-2.2.0/parcellfun.m at line 
> 334, column 11
>
> The error is not replicable (running the same program again won't necessarily 
> produce the error at the same iteration) and has appeared in different pipes, 
> e.g.
>
> parcellfun: 12/13 jobs doneerror: invalid conversion from real matrix to real 
> scalar
> error: file id must be a file object, std::string, or integer value
> warning: broken pipe
> error: called from:
> error: /home/hpc/t1313/di34koy/octave/parallel-2.2.0/parcellfun.m at line 
> 334, column 11
>
> I am using octave 3.8.1 and parallel 2.2.0. It seems to me that the problem 
> lies somewhere in the parallel code, but I am not an expert (;
>
> I would be deeply grateful if someone could help me with the issue.
>
> Regards
> Moritz Keuthen
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We need to see the code that is generating the "file id". It might be
that you are doing this automatically and you have a bug there.