Discussion related to cado-nfs

[Paul Leyland <paul.leyland@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 2014-08-10 at 15:46 +0100, Paul Leyland wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-08-10 at 15:31 +0100, Paul Leyland wrote:
> > I'm getting lines such as these in the log file:
> > 
> > PID24061 2014-08-10 15:17:25,680 Warning:Polynomial Selection (size 
> > optimized): Invalid polyselect file 
> > '/home/pcl/nums/cado_fact/work/w5_340.upload/w5_340.polyselect1.nu90yb.300000-350000':
> >  Invalid key 'm' in line 'm: 
> > 539674964626763977967326357598007943067461897751243105983674608872801964377960841257117954800435165509502108662569827240434509583101643506969673222196'
> > 
> > Should I be concerned?  Does it mean that polynomial finding is going
> > wrong?
> > 
> > A larger nip from the log file is given below so that more context can
> > be seen.
> ...
> 
> Please hold off dealing with this one for the time being.  I think I
> found an issue related to a problem I had with an earlier version of
> CADO-NFS.  For a reason I don't now remember polyselect2 and las had to
> be in my $PATH which does *not* include a directory deep in the build
> tree.  I'd forgotten to copy the newly built binaries over to ~/bin and
> so the initial run was using an elderly version of polyselect2
> 
> I'll mail again if the issue occurs now that I've updated
> ~/bin/polyselect2

Ok, that was the problem.  My apologies for the false alarm.


Paul