Dear all, 
I am currently using freesurfer 6.0 (development version) to run hippocampal subfields segmentation and encountered a 'mkdir' error, which is attached below. Our troubleshooting found that some scripts in the ...freesurfer/dev/sys/bin directory with things like:

  if(-e /scratch)   set tmpdir = /scratch/tmpdir.bbmask.$$
  if(! -e /scratch) set tmpdir = $outdir/tmpdir.bbmask.$$

However, /scratch is a directory that is not writable in our server. So, we made changes to all of the scripts that testing the existence of /scratch. However, there are several places where they incorrectly test for the /scratch directory using -e instead of -dw, the /scratch is hard coded in there so it can't be changed. 

Looking forward to hearing suggestions and comments.

Fengji

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Here begins the error message:

 

hippocampus:/<2>hippocampus/HMN/data/FG_Temp: #--------------------------------------------

#@# Hippocampal Subfields processing (T1 only) left Wed Nov 18 21:57:45 EST 2015

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Setting up environment variables

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LD_LIBRARY_PATH is .:/cell_root/software/freesurfer/dev/sys/MCRv80/runtime/glnxa64:/cell_root/software/freesurfer/dev/sys/MCRv80/bin/glnxa64:/cell_root/software/freesurfer/dev/sys/MCRv80/sys/os/glnxa64:/cell_root/software/freesurfer/dev/sys/MCRv80/sys/java/jre/glnxa64/jre/lib/amd64/native_threads:/cell_root/software/freesurfer/dev/sys/MCRv80/sys/java/jre/glnxa64/jre/lib/amd64/server:/cell_root/software/freesurfer/dev/sys/MCRv80/sys/java/jre/glnxa64/jre/lib/amd64/client:/cell_root/software/freesurfer/dev/sys/MCRv80/sys/java/jre/glnxa64/jre/lib/amd64:/cell_root/software/gsl/current/sys/lib:/cell_root/software/fastx/current/lib/fastx_server/lib

Warning: application is running on a locale different from the original platform locale.

Error using mkdir

Read-only file system

 

Error in segmentSubjectT1_autoEstimateAlveusML (line 113)

 

 

 

MATLAB:MKDIR:OSError

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#@# Hippocampal Subfields processing (T1 only) right Wed Nov 18 21:57:50 EST 2015

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Setting up environment variables

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LD_LIBRARY_PATH is .:/cell_root/software/freesurfer/dev/sys/MCRv80/runtime/glnxa64:/cell_root/software/freesurfer/dev/sys/MCRv80/bin/glnxa64:/cell_root/software/freesurfer/dev/sys/MCRv80/sys/os/glnxa64:/cell_root/software/freesurfer/dev/sys/MCRv80/sys/java/jre/glnxa64/jre/lib/amd64/native_threads:/cell_root/software/freesurfer/dev/sys/MCRv80/sys/java/jre/glnxa64/jre/lib/amd64/server:/cell_root/software/freesurfer/dev/sys/MCRv80/sys/java/jre/glnxa64/jre/lib/amd64/client:/cell_root/software/freesurfer/dev/sys/MCRv80/sys/java/jre/glnxa64/jre/lib/amd64:/cell_root/software/gsl/current/sys/lib:/cell_root/software/fastx/current/lib/fastx_server/lib

Warning: application is running on a locale different from the original platform locale.

Error using mkdir

Read-only file system

 

Error in segmentSubjectT1_autoEstimateAlveusML (line 113)

 

 

 

MATLAB:MKDIR:OSError

 

End of error message.