Issue running laserDrivenBeamline.mac in hadrontherapy example

Recording, Visualizing and Persisting Data
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Hi all!

I’m a relative newbie to GEANT4 and have an issue regarding running macros in the command line. In particular, I would like to run laserDrivenBeamline.mac in the hadrontherapy example.

When I run

./hadrontherapy ../macro/laserDrivenBeamline.mac

in the build directory, I get the following error:

***** COMMAND NOT FOUND </process/had/rdm/thresholdForVeryLongDecayTime 1.0e+60 year> *****

***** Batch is interrupted!! *****

-------- WWWW ------- G4Exception-START -------- WWWW -------
*** G4Exception : UIMAN0123
issued by : G4UImanager::ApplyCommand
Command aborted (100)
Error code : 100
*** This is just a warning message. ***
-------- WWWW -------- G4Exception-END --------- WWWW -------

When I run the executable (./hadrontherapy), I do not receive an error. However, when I run

/control/execute laserDrivenBeamline.mac

in the visualization, I receive the following error:

***** Illegal application state </geometrySetup/selectGeometry LaserDriven> *****

***** Batch is interrupted!! *****

-------- WWWW ------- G4Exception-START -------- WWWW -------
*** G4Exception : UIMAN0123
issued by : G4UImanager::ApplyCommand
Command aborted (200)
Error code : 200
*** This is just a warning message. ***
-------- WWWW -------- G4Exception-END --------- WWWW -------

illegal application state – command refused:“/control/execute laserDrivenBeamline.mac”

In a previous thread, the latter error was attributed to GEANT4’s inability to change geometry once an already loaded geometry. However, I receive the former error when I try the thread’s recommended solution (implementing the macro in the command line).

How should I best go about running the macro? Is there another way I should do so?

Completely aside, there’s a typo in the visualization manager. In the “Documentation :” section, it links the “Visualisation Publication :” with “visualization” spelled as so.

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Hi Samuel

I’m not familiar with the hadrontherapy example, but it’s usual to run your application in a working directory containing the macro files. So rather than a full pathname to the macros

./hadrontherapy ../macro/laserDrivenBeamline.mac

cd to the macro directory, then give the full pathname of the executable:

<path_to_executable_directory>/hadrontherapy laserDrivenBeamline.mac

Let us know if this helps.

John

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Hi John

Thank you for your response.

I ran the executable in the macro directory, but am still encountering the following error:
***** COMMAND NOT FOUND </process/had/rdm/thresholdForVeryLongDecayTime 1.0e+60 year> *****

I also reinstalled G4; however, the error persists.

I would greatly appreciate any suggestions you might have to resolve this issue.

Thank you for your time and assistance.

Samuel

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Hi Samuel

Maybe the command is simply not there. Have you looked at the help tree? (help, or ls, cd, etc.). In an app I am developing it is not there, but maybe I don’t have the right physics list. If it’s not there in the hadrontherapy example, it’s a bug. If you don’t get a response from a hadron expert, please file a bug report.

John