[GRASS-dev] error in v.overlay: Unable to write spatial index. Wrong node position

[Moritz Lennert]

On 10/06/19 21:39, Markus Metz wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 6:12 PM Moritz Lennert 
> <mlennert at club.worldonline.be <mailto:mlennert at club.worldonline.be>> wrote:
>  >
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > I just came across this error:
>  >
>  > ******************************
>  > ERROR: Unable to write spatial index. Wrong node position (950329504) in
>  >         file (should be 950333637).
>  > ERROR: Clipping steps failed. Check above error messages and see 
> following
>  >         details:
>  >         Module run None ['v.overlay', 'binput=temp_30311', 
> 'operator=and',
>  >         'olayer=0,1,0', 'ainput=sq_batiments',
>  >         'output=walous_temp_batiment_tile_18980'] ended with error
>  >         Process ended with non-zero return code 1. See errors in the 
> (error)
>  >         output.
>  > ******************************
>  >
>  > Any hint of what this might mean ? Should I file a bug report ?
> 
> That means there was an error while writing out a spatial index, the 
> file size of the file holding the partially written out spatial index is 
> smaller than expected. Is this error reproducible on a different 
> partition/file system? Can you provide test data to reproduce?

This was running on one node in an HPC. Up to now I haven't been able to 
reproduce it, so it was probably some glitch on that node. If I have 
other occurences, I'll try to narrow it down and provide test data.


Moritz