Problem 814 - Existence of data files for G4LEVELGAMMA is not verified
Summary: Existence of data files for G4LEVELGAMMA is not verified
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Geant4
Classification: Unclassified
Component: processes/hadronic/models (show other problems)
Version: 7.1
Hardware: All Linux
: P2 normal
Assignee: dennis.herbert.wright
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Reported: 2005-11-23 09:23 CET by frank.gaede
Modified: 2006-01-05 18:11 CET (History)
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Description frank.gaede 2005-11-23 09:23:38 CET 
Most geant4 hadronics physics lists reqire the photon evaporation data files to
be present, i.e. the environment variable $G4LEVELGAMMA has to be set.
However the program will not issue a warning if the data files are not actually
there. Instead it will sillently carry on. This is a problem, e.g. in
distributed computing environments where a resource might temporarily not be
available and the user has no way of knowing that something actually went wrong.
Comment 1 dennis.herbert.wright 2006-01-05 18:11:59 CET 
A warning is now in place which will indicate that a gamma levels file for
a particular nuclide is missing.  The program will keep running, but no
gammas will be produced.  When G4LEVELGAMMADATA has been set correctly, there
may still be missing files due to a lack of data for rare fission fragments,
for example.