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alienv fails when launched simultaneously from several terminals #538
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I think this is due to the fact that we need to copy modulefiles in a specific place in order to be picked up by |
@ktf even if I load first in a single terminal I get these errors. |
So in the release validation we actually work it around by using lockfiles. One can use |
ok thank you for assessing the situation. |
We've also recently discovered this issue when using alienv with the CERN HTCondor batch system and the sw directory on a shared file-system. Until the underlying problem can be fixed, a workaround that works well for us is to evaluate the environment once (e.g. I would be happy to help fix the underlying issue, but it might take a while to familiarise myself with the internals of alienv... |
In Terminator I can send commands to all terminals at once. If I do "alienv load QualityControl/latest" it will succeed in one but fail in the others with errors such as :
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