Ah! That was helpful, Doug. While eliminating the & at the end didn't do anything, running the debug version of the command shows the following at the end of log.txt (attached):

set subjdir = $SUBJECTS_DIR/$subjid
set subjdir = /home/hurry01/.gvfs/ebblvm$ on callunavm.psy.tufts.edu/projects/resdep/data/mri/resdep214

This is where the set message gets spit out. It's - for obvious reasons - not happy with that path. I'll work with IT over on this end as it likely has something to do with the way we're mounting the Windows shares on which data are stored and processed.

Best,

Heather

On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Douglas N Greve <greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:
Hmm, not sure what is going on.

First, run it without the ampersand on the end.

If that still crashes, then run this and send me log.txt

recon-all  -debug  -i
/home/hurry01/r/resdep_mri_data/resdep014/265000-10-1.dcm -s resdep214
-all |& tee log.txt

doug


On 08/07/2013 12:47 PM, Heather L. Urry wrote:
>
> Ah, sorry-- that too:   tcsh 6.18.01.
>
> (The command, which I just sent in a previous message, was as follows:
>
> recon-all -i /home/hurry01/r/resdep_mri_data/resdep014/265000-10-1.dcm
> -s resdep214 -all &
>
> )
>
> Heather
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Bruce Fischl
> <fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <mailto:fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>> wrote:
>
>     and what shell are you using
>     On Wed, 7 Aug 2013, Douglas N Greve wrote:
>
>     > what is your command line?
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > On 08/07/2013 10:19 AM, Heather L. Urry wrote:
>     >> Hi folks,
>     >>
>     >> When issuing a recon-all command, I'm seeing the following message:
>     >>
>     >> set: Variable name must contain alphanumeric characters
>     >>
>     >> recon-all stalls and doesn't move forward (doesn't even create the
>     >> subject directory).
>     >>
>     >> I'm using Freesurfer 5.3.0
>     >> (freesurfer-Linux-centos6_x86_64-stable-pub-v5.3.0) on Ubuntu
>     12.04.2.
>     >> In fact, we just upgraded to this version of Ubuntu from an older
>     >> version of Mandriva and to this latest version of Freesurfer.
>     >> recon-all did not produce this message before these two
>     upgrades. Any
>     >> help you can offer would be most appreciated! Thanks in advance.
>     >>
>     >> Best,
>     >>
>     >> Heather
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