Permission denied error from -localGI - Freesurfer

27 Apr 2022


      Sorry about missing your earlier question--our FreeSurfer is 7.1.0
We still need your help with this issue.
Thank you,
Tashrif
Douglas N. Greve Sun, 27 Mar 2022 13:57:02 -0700
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What version of FS are you running?
On 3/20/2022 8:47 PM, Billah, Tashrif wrote:
It does not exist and cannot be created in a shared cluster. Is there a way to define a different folder for /scratch/tp24093955057547375.load_mgh.m.mgh?
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    Douglas N. Greve Wed, 09 Mar 2022 10:04:31 -0800
Do you have permission to /scratch? Does it exist?
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    Billah, Tashrif Wed, 02 Mar 2022 06:50:41 -0800
Hi all,
We are trying to run recon-all with -localGI but running into an unknown
    permission denied error:
$ recon-all -s sub-1001 -localGI
```
make_outer_surface('/path/to/FS_SUBJECTS_DIR/sub-1001/surf/tmp-mris_compute_lgi-lh.pial/lh.pial.filled.mgz',15,'/path/to/FS_SUBJECTS_DIR/sub-1001/surf/tmp-mris_compute_lgi-lh.pial/lh.pial-outer');
     exit
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< M A T L A B (R) >
    Copyright 1984-2017 The MathWorks, Inc.
    R2017a (9.2.0.556344) 64-bit (glnxa64)
    March 27, 2017
>> reading filled volume...
    /bin/bash: /scratch/tp24093955057547375.load_mgh.m.mgh: Permission denied
ERROR: could not open /scratch/tp24093955057547375.load_mgh.m.mgh for reading
ERROR: loading
    /path/to/FS_SUBJECTS_DIR/sub-1001/surf/tmp-mris_compute_lgi-lh.pial/lh.pial.filled.mgz
     as MGH
    Struct contents reference from a non-struct array object.
Error in make_outer_surface (line 25)
    volume=vol.vol;
>>
    ERROR: make_outer_surface did not create output file
    '/path/to/FS_SUBJECTS_DIR/sub-1001/surf/tmp-mris_compute_lgi-lh.pial/lh.pial-outer'!
recon-all -s sub-1001 exited with ERRORS at Wed Mar 2 09:02:21 EST 2022
```
Our MATLAB environment is properly setup and we regularly run other
    FreeSurfer-MATLAB commands. So I do not think that is causing the issue.
Best,
    Tashrif