[Gate-users] Problem with launching examples in vGATE

Fri Nov 28 21:31:27 CET 2014

 Hello! I want to explain my situation. My OS is Windows7. I have installed VirtualBox-4.3.6-91406. Then I have installed vGATE 1.0 and vGATE 2.1. After that I have tried to launch examples in these versions of vGATE. All examples don't work. The most common mistakes: 1. Can not open a macro file <Verbose.mac>; 2. Could not find material database file 'GateMaterials.db'; 3. Can not open a macro file <Visu.mac>; 4. Can not open Materials.xml. Several times I have seen such mistake: Can not find material "Water" in GateMaterials.db (Although record with all necessary information about this material is written in GateMaterials.db). I launch examples in Terminal in the following manner: 
gate at vgate:~$ Gate /home/gate/Progs/Gate/gate_v6.2/examples/example_Radiotherapy/example1/mac/main.mac
(It is one of the examples, main.mac is name of general macros in this case).
Below I give a response to my attempt to launch main.mac in Terminal in vGATE 2.1 (It is example1 in the folder example_Radiotherapy):

gate at vgate:~$ Gate /home/gate/Progs/Gate/gate_v6.2/examples/example_Radiotherapy/example1/mac/main.mac
[G4] 
[G4] *************************************************************
[G4] Geant4 version Name: geant4-09-05-patch-01 (20-March-2012)
[G4] Copyright : Geant4 Collaboration
[G4] Reference : NIM A 506 (2003), 250-303
[G4] WWW : http://cern.ch/geant4
[G4] *************************************************************
[G4] 
[Core-0] Initialization of geometry
[Core-0] Initialization of physics
[Core-0] Initialization of actors
[Core-0] 
[Core-0] **********************************************************************
[Core-0] GATE version name: gate_v6.2 
[Core-0] Copyright : OpenGATE Collaboration 
[Core-0] Reference : Phys. Med. Biol. 49 (2004) 4543-4561 
[Core-0] Reference : Phys. Med. Biol. 56 (2011) 881-901 
[Core-0] WWW : http://www.opengatecollaboration.org 
[Core-0] **********************************************************************
[Core-0] 
[Core-0] Starting macro /home/gate/Progs/Gate/gate_v6.2/examples/example_Radiotherapy/example1/mac/main.mac
***** Can not open a macro file <verbose.mac>
-------- EEEE ------- G4Exception-START -------- EEEE -------
*** G4Exception : GateMDBFile
issued by : GateMDBFile::GateMDBFile
Could not find material database file 'data/GateMaterials.db'
*** Fatal Exception *** core dump ***
-------- EEEE -------- G4Exception-END --------- EEEE -------

*** G4Exception: Aborting execution ***
Aborted (core dumped) Also I decided to realise a code which is introduced in next file: HandsOnRTLM.pdf (I downloaded it from  http://www.opengatecollaboration.org/TrainingMaterials  )
I started text editor with a command gedit in Terminal and wrote the code from the first part of abovementioned file (1 - RT Beam in a water phantom). I tried to launch it with no changes and with my some corrections but in both cases it doesn't work (I didn't forget to allow executing file as program and I wrote in the name an extension .mac).
Below I give a response to my attempt to launch My_attempt_1.mac in Terminal in vGATE 2.1 (It is my example, which is based on the file HandsOnRTLM.pdf; I have created this example in the folder example_Radiotherapy):

gate at vgate:~$ Gate /home/gate/Progs/Gate/gate_v6.2/examples/example_Radiotherapy/My_attempt_1.mac
[G4] 
[G4] *************************************************************
[G4] Geant4 version Name: geant4-09-05-patch-01 (20-March-2012)
[G4] Copyright : Geant4 Collaboration
[G4] Reference : NIM A 506 (2003), 250-303
[G4] WWW : http://cern.ch/geant4
[G4] *************************************************************
[G4] 
[Core-0] Initialization of geometry
[Core-0] Initialization of physics
[Core-0] Initialization of actors
[Core-0] 
[Core-0] **********************************************************************
[Core-0] GATE version name: gate_v6.2 
[Core-0] Copyright : OpenGATE Collaboration 
[Core-0] Reference : Phys. Med. Biol. 49 (2004) 4543-4561 
[Core-0] Reference : Phys. Med. Biol. 56 (2011) 881-901 
[Core-0] WWW : http://www.opengatecollaboration.org 
[Core-0] **********************************************************************
[Core-0] 
[Core-0] Starting macro /home/gate/Progs/Gate/gate_v6.2/examples/example_Radiotherapy/My_attempt_1.mac
G4OpenGLXViewer: XLoadQueryFont failed for font
-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--10-100-75-75-m-60-iso8859-1
G4OpenGLXViewer: XLoadQueryFont failed for font
-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--11-80-100-100-m-60-iso8859-1
G4OpenGLXViewer: XLoadQueryFont failed for font
-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--12-120-75-75-m-70-iso8859-1
G4OpenGLXViewer: XLoadQueryFont failed for font
-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--14-100-100-100-m-90-iso8859-1
G4OpenGLXViewer: XLoadQueryFont failed for font
-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--17-120-100-100-m-100-iso8859-1
G4OpenGLXViewer: XLoadQueryFont failed for font
-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--18-180-75-75-m-110-iso8859-1
G4OpenGLXViewer: XLoadQueryFont failed for font
-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--20-140-100-100-m-110-iso8859-1
G4OpenGLXViewer: XLoadQueryFont failed for font
-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--24-240-75-75-m-150-iso8859-1
G4OpenGLXViewer: XLoadQueryFont failed for font
-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--25-180-100-100-m-150-iso8859-1
G4OpenGLXViewer: XLoadQueryFont failed for font
-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--34-240-100-100-m-200-iso8859-1
ERROR: "volume" not recognised. Looking for 'w' or 's' first character.
/tracking/storeTrajectory 1
Attributes available for modeling and filtering with
"/vis/modeling/trajectories/create/drawByAttribute" and
"/vis/filtering/trajectories/create/attributeFilter" commands:
G4Trajectory:
Charge (Ch): unit: e+ (G4double)
Track ID (ID): G4int
Initial kinetic energy (IKE): G4BestUnit (G4double)
Initial momentum magnitude (IMag): G4BestUnit (G4double)
Initial momentum (IMom): G4BestUnit (G4ThreeVector)
No. of points (NTP): G4int
PDG Encoding (PDG): G4int
Parent ID (PID): G4int
Particle Name (PN): G4String
G4TrajectoryPoint:
Position (Pos): G4BestUnit (G4ThreeVector)
WARNING: Trajectory storing has been requested. This action may be
reversed with "/tracking/storeTrajectory 0".
WARNING: The vis manager will keep up to 100 events.
This may use a lot of memory.
It may be changed with, e.g., "/vis/scene/endOfEventAction accumulate 10".
-------- EEEE ------- G4Exception-START -------- EEEE -------
*** G4Exception : GateMDBFile
issued by : GateMDBFile::GateMDBFile
Could not find material database file '../../GateMaterials.db'
*** Fatal Exception *** core dump ***
-------- EEEE -------- G4Exception-END --------- EEEE -------

*** G4Exception: Aborting execution ***
Aborted (core dumped)

Please advise me what I can to do to solve these problems. Thanks in advance. P.S. In attachment of this letter there are next archives: "example1", "My example" and file "HandsOnRTLM.pdf".

-- 
Best regards, Leonid.
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