The error is:

[mice@miceonrec03 .maus_trunk]$ python bin/analyze_data_offline.py -daq_data_path ../.maus_release -daq_data_file 7367 -simulation_geometry_filename files/geometry/download/ParentGeometryFile.dat
>Server:  MICE Production Server - Public read only interface 1.1.3
Welcome to MAUS:
    Process ID (PID): 25485
    Program Arguments: ['bin/analyze_data_offline.py', '-daq_data_path', '../.maus_release', '-daq_data_file', '7367', '-simulation_geometry_filename', 'files/geometry/download/ParentGeometryFile.dat']
    Version: MAUS release version 1.1.0
    Unpacker: StepIV
Initialising Globals
Using /home/mice/MAUS/.maus_trunk/files/geometry/download/Step_IV.gdml

-------- EEEE ------- G4Exception-START -------- EEEE -------
*** G4Exception : InvalidRead
      issued by : G4GDMLRead::Read()
Empty document!
*** Fatal Exception *** core dump ***
-------- EEEE -------- G4Exception-END --------- EEEE -------

*** G4Exception: Aborting execution ***
Aborted

Tried on release branch, as well as on onrec02 with same result.

onrec03 is an SL6.4 machine -- one on which we plan to run our data reconstruction.

Able to run against ParentGeometry on my Fermilab box running SLF6.4.
Any idea why onrec0x is behaving this way?

The integration test

tests/integration/test_utilities/test_geometry/test_latest_geometry.py

I was not able to reproduce this error on the trunk or release 1.0.0 on my local machine.

I also logged in to onrec02 and ran

python tests/integration/test_utilities/test_geometry/test_latest_geometry.py

To extract a little more information about the error I ran

../bin/simulate_mice.py --simulation_geometry_filename /home/mice/MAUS/.maus_release/tmp/test_latest_geometry_70/geometry/ParentGeometryFile.dat --verbose_level 0

Using /home/mice/MAUS/.maus_release/tmp/test_latest_geometry_70/geometry/Step_IV.gdml
G4GDML: Reading '/home/mice/MAUS/.maus_release/tmp/test_latest_geometry_70/geometry/Step_IV.gdml'...
G4GDML: VALIDATION ERROR! unable to connect socket for URL 'http://service-spi.web.cern.ch/service-spi/app/releases/GDML/schema/gdml.xsd' at line: 0
G4GDML: VALIDATION ERROR! fatal error during schema scan at line: 2

-------- EEEE ------- G4Exception-START -------- EEEE -------
*** G4Exception : InvalidRead
      issued by : G4GDMLRead::Read()
Empty document!
*** Fatal Exception *** core dump ***
-------- EEEE -------- G4Exception-END --------- EEEE -------

*** G4Exception: Aborting execution ***

I note that there is a local copy of this style sheet in MAUS that we do not use at $MAUS_ROOT_DIR/src/common_py/geometry/GDML_3_0_0/schema/gdml.xsd. If I exchange the web reference for the local file, the simulation runs with no problem. (Incidentally the doctored file is on onrec02 as "/home/mice/MAUS/.maus_release/tmp/test_latest_geometry_70/geometry/ParentGeometryFile.dat" for a short term solution.)

I am building release 1.1.0 on my local system to verify that the problem is not version dependent but it looks more like it is a network issue. The course of action is to either make sure that the network can access the style sheet or make the style sheet reference local. Most people will likely prefer the second option. To make the second option work requires a software intervention at the geometry formatting stage that replaces the default "xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation" with a local reference --- no worse than replacing the local file references in the GDML with absolute path names.

I was not able to reproduce this error on the trunk or release 1.0.0 on my local machine.

I also logged in to onrec02 and ran

python tests/integration/test_utilities/test_geometry/test_latest_geometry.py

To extract a little more information about the error I ran

../bin/simulate_mice.py --simulation_geometry_filename /home/mice/MAUS/.maus_release/tmp/test_latest_geometry_70/geometry/ParentGeometryFile.dat --verbose_level 0

Using /home/mice/MAUS/.maus_release/tmp/test_latest_geometry_70/geometry/Step_IV.gdml
G4GDML: Reading '/home/mice/MAUS/.maus_release/tmp/test_latest_geometry_70/geometry/Step_IV.gdml'...
G4GDML: VALIDATION ERROR! unable to connect socket for URL 'http://service-spi.web.cern.ch/service-spi/app/releases/GDML/schema/gdml.xsd' at line: 0
G4GDML: VALIDATION ERROR! fatal error during schema scan at line: 2

-------- EEEE ------- G4Exception-START -------- EEEE -------
*** G4Exception : InvalidRead
      issued by : G4GDMLRead::Read()
Empty document!
*** Fatal Exception *** core dump ***
-------- EEEE -------- G4Exception-END --------- EEEE -------

*** G4Exception: Aborting execution ***

I note that there is a local copy of this style sheet in MAUS that we do not use at $MAUS_ROOT_DIR/src/common_py/geometry/GDML_3_0_0/schema/gdml.xsd. If I exchange the web reference for the local file, the simulation runs with no problem. (Incidentally the doctored file is on onrec02 as "/home/mice/MAUS/.maus_release/tmp/test_latest_geometry_70/geometry/ParentGeometryFile.dat" for a short term solution.)

I am building release 1.1.0 on my local system to verify that the problem is not version dependent but it looks more like it is a network issue. The course of action is to either make sure that the network can access the style sheet or make the style sheet reference local. Most people will likely prefer the second option. To make the second option work requires a software intervention at the geometry formatting stage that replaces the default "xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation" with a local reference --- no worse than replacing the local file references in the GDML with absolute path names.

Thanks!