Does stimela really need the USER variable?

[o-smirnov]

See caracal-pipeline/stimela#156

[SpheMakh]

It does when using docker (at least docker that requires root). I'm pushing a commit that uses os.getlogin() per your suggestion. If that doesn't work, then we can just add a conditional before getting the USER.

[SpheMakh]

Here is the branch apptainer. @NicolaMalavasi, please try it

[NicolaMalavasi]

Dear all,
thanks for taking the time to review this. A few considerations here below.

1. I was unfortunately unable to use the new stimela branch. In fact I do not install stimela directly, but I pip install -U caracal==1.0.6 which then installs stimela, per my understanding. I can see if I can modify the commit of stimela used by this installation. For the moment I had to rely on manually changing the line USER = os.environ["USER"] to USER = os.getlogin() in __init__.py of stimela after installation.

2. This solution does not work either. The error I get is

USER = os.getlogin()
OSError: [Errno 6] No such device or address

and I think I understood that this is because os.getlogin() requires a user to be logged in an active terminal which is not my case (I run caracal from an HTcondor job and my user is nobody during the run.

Thanks for the help

[SpheMakh]

Hi @NicolaMalavasi, I've updated the branch again. Please re-install the branch and try again.

Install the branch by running this where you have CARACal installed

pip install -U --force-reinstall git+https://github.com/ratt-ru/Stimela@apptainer

[SpheMakh]

The changes are now in the master branch, the apptainer branch is gone. Install using the below instead

pip install -U --force-reinstall git+https://github.com/ratt-ru/Stimela.git