# Error report when install Pylith: FAIL: testpylith.py

**URL:** <https://community.geodynamics.org/t/error-report-when-install-pylith-fail-testpylith-py/677>\
**Category:** PyLith\
**Tags:** installation\
**Created:** [June 19, 2019, 1:10am UTC](https://community.geodynamics.org/t/error-report-when-install-pylith-fail-testpylith-py/677 "2019-06-19T01:10:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 1:10am UTC](https://community.geodynamics.org/t/error-report-when-install-pylith-fail-testpylith-py/677/1 "2019-06-19T01:10:55Z")

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I encountered this error report when I install PYLITH on my Linux system. anyone can help me kill this trouble. Thanks a lot advance. the detail error report as followed:

```
for f in TestTri3.py TestAxialDisp.py axialdisp_soln.py axialdisp_gendb.py TestShearDisp.py TestShearDispNoSlip.py TestShearDispNoSlipRefine.py TestShearDispFriction.py sheardisp_soln.py sheardisp_gendb.py TestSlipOneFault.py sliponefault_soln.py TestSlipTwoFaults.py sliptwofaults_soln.py TestFaultsIntersect.py geometry.jou mesh.jou mesh.exo matprops.spatialdb axialdisp.cfg sheardisp.cfg sheardispnoslip.cfg sheardispnosliprefine.cfg sheardispfriction.cfg sliponefault.cfg points.txt sliptwofaults.cfg faultsintersect.cfg; do /bin/bash /home/csulxg/src/pylith/pylith-2.2.1/aux-config/install-sh -c -m 644 ../../../../pylith-2.2.1/tests_auto/2d/tri3/$f ../../../tests_auto/2d/tri3; done

```

# make check-am make[6]: Entering directory ‘/home/csulxg/src/pylith/pylith-build/tests\_auto/2d/tri3’ make testpylith.py make[7]: Entering directory ‘/home/csulxg/src/pylith/pylith-build/tests\_auto/2d/tri3’ make[7]: Nothing to be done for ‘…/…/…/…/pylith-2.2.1/tests\_auto/2d/tri3/testpylith.py’. make[7]: Leaving directory ‘/home/csulxg/src/pylith/pylith-build/tests\_auto/2d/tri3’ make check-TESTS check-local make[7]: Entering directory ‘/home/csulxg/src/pylith/pylith-build/tests\_auto/2d/tri3’ make[8]: Entering directory ‘/home/csulxg/src/pylith/pylith-build/tests\_auto/2d/tri3’ FAIL: testpylith.py

# Testsuite summary for PyLith 2.2.1

# TOTAL: 1

# PASS: 0

# SKIP: 0

# XFAIL: 0

# FAIL: 1

# XPASS: 0

# ERROR: 0

# ============================================================================ See tests\_auto/2d/tri3/test-suite.log Please report to [cig-short@geodynamics.org](mailto:cig-short@geodynamics.org)

Makefile:665: recipe for target ‘test-suite.log’ failed  
make[8]: \*\*\* [test-suite.log] Error 1  
make[8]: Leaving directory ‘/home/csulxg/src/pylith/pylith-build/tests\_auto/2d/tri3’  
Makefile:771: recipe for target ‘check-TESTS’ failed  
make[7]: \*\*\* [check-TESTS] Error 2  
make[7]: Leaving directory ‘/home/csulxg/src/pylith/pylith-build/tests\_auto/2d/tri3’  
Makefile:844: recipe for target ‘check-am’ failed  
make[6]: \*\*\* [check-am] Error 2  
make[6]: Leaving directory ‘/home/csulxg/src/pylith/pylith-build/tests\_auto/2d/tri3’  
Makefile:847: recipe for target ‘check’ failed  
make[5]: \*\*\* [check] Error 2  
make[5]: Leaving directory ‘/home/csulxg/src/pylith/pylith-build/tests\_auto/2d/tri3’  
Makefile:441: recipe for target ‘check-recursive’ failed  
make[4]: \*\*\* [check-recursive] Error 1  
make[4]: Leaving directory ‘/home/csulxg/src/pylith/pylith-build/tests\_auto/2d’  
Makefile:441: recipe for target ‘check-recursive’ failed  
make[3]: \*\*\* [check-recursive] Error 1  
make[3]: Leaving directory ‘/home/csulxg/src/pylith/pylith-build/tests\_auto’  
Makefile:507: recipe for target ‘check-recursive’ failed  
make[2]: \*\*\* [check-recursive] Error 1  
make[2]: Leaving directory ‘/home/csulxg/src/pylith/pylith-build’  
Makefile:1402: recipe for target ‘pylith’ failed  
make[1]: \*\*\* [pylith] Error 2  
make[1]: Leaving directory ‘/home/csulxg/src/pylith’  
Makefile:1418: recipe for target ‘installed\_pylith’ failed  
make: \*\*\* [installed\_pylith] Error 2