Can you provide the exact command you're running? It looks more like a problem with the resource path to the steering file. Are you sure that the path to the recon steering is correct? The conditions system should be able to continue past that error, and the traceback is not from the conditions manager. -----Original Message----- From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Holly Vance Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 2:09 PM To: hps-software Subject: Running recon Hi, I was trying to use the lcio files Matt posted, and I cannot seem to run reconstruction with them. It looks like I get a conditions database error, but I'm not sure. It's a malformed URL. I run: java -jar <distribution-bin.jar> -r <path.to.HPS2014OfflineRecon.lcsim> -i <input.slcio> -DoutputFile=blah I get this error: Wed Dec 17 16:54:15 EST 2014 :: DatabaseConditionsManager :: WARNING :: air: air: nodename nor servname provided, or not known Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: java.net.MalformedURLException at org.lcsim.job.JobControlManager.setup(JobControlManager.java:508) at org.lcsim.job.JobControlManager.setup(JobControlManager.java:482) at org.lcsim.job.JobControlManager.parseCommandLineOptions(JobControlManager.java:333) at org.lcsim.job.JobControlManager.run(JobControlManager.java:181) at org.hps.job.JobManager.main(JobManager.java:18) Caused by: java.net.MalformedURLException at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:619) at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:482) at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:431) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityManager.setupCurrentEntity(XMLEntityManager.java:610) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLVersionDetector.determineDocVersion(XMLVersionDetector.java:189) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:812) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:777) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:141) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1213) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:649) at org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:489) at org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:807) at org.lcsim.job.JobControlManager.setup(JobControlManager.java:506) ... 4 more Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:524) ... 16 more ________________________________ Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the HPS-SOFTWARE list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=HPS-SOFTWARE&A=1 ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the HPS-SOFTWARE list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=HPS-SOFTWARE&A=1