Dear experts,
I have been experiencing some issues with reading TFiles using both C++ and PyROOT macros, as well as interactive root sessions. When trying to read some existing file, it generates a error as in the following:
> [avroy@lxplus731 Limits]$ root -l /eos/user/a/avroy/Analysis_Outputs/ALL_OUTPUTS2//MYOUTPUT.sig.M13K090.root
> root [0]
> Attaching file /eos/user/a/avroy/Analysis_Outputs/ALL_OUTPUTS2//MYOUTPUT.sig.M13K090.root as _file0...
> Error in <TFile::ReadBuffer>: error reading all requested bytes from file /eos/user/a/avroy/Analysis_Outputs/ALL_OUTPUTS2//MYOUTPUT.sig.M13K090.root, got 63 of 300
> Error in <TFile::Init>: /eos/user/a/avroy/Analysis_Outputs/ALL_OUTPUTS2//MYOUTPUT.sig.M13K090.root failed to read the file type data.
> (TFile *) nullptr
> root [1] .q
The worse part of this error is that it actually corrupts the file. Doing a ls -lh gives the following output:
> [avroy@lxplus731 Limits]$ ls -lh /eos/user/a/avroy/Analysis_Outputs/ALL_OUTPUTS2//MYOUTPUT.sig.M13K090.root
> -rw-r--r--. 1 avroy zp 63 Aug 7 16:43 /eos/user/a/avroy/Analysis_Outputs/ALL_OUTPUTS2//MYOUTPUT.sig.M13K090.root
As you can see, the size of the file has been reduced to 63 bytes, instead of some ~1MB. Each of these files contains some 1k histograms, created by merging 3 similar TFiles. All such files are stored within a single directory, containing all necessary TFiles for my analysis. That one directory stores ~65k different files.
I am also bothered by a similar but maybe uncorrelated error, in which ROOT fails to read certain files in a given lxplus session, returns null pointers. But the file is there, the size being what it is supposed to be, and perfectly readable from a different lxplus session.
It will be great to have suggestions on how to circumvent these issues.
ROOT Version: 6.18/04
Built for linuxx8664gcc on Sep 11 2019, 15:38:23
From tags/v6-18-04@v6-18-04
kind regards,
Avik