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LALFrameL.c error on CIT

While running some LALInference jobs on a TGR pipeline on CIT, we encountered the following error:

XLAL Error - XLALFrFileOpenURL (LALFrameIO.c:117): I/O error 
XLAL Error - XLALFrStreamFileOpen (LALFrStream.c:138): Internal function call failed: I/O error 
XLAL Error - XLALFrStreamCacheOpen (LALFrStream.c:233): Internal function call failed: I/O error 
XLAL Error - XLALFrameUFrFileOpen_FrameL_ (LALFrameL.c:187): FrFileINew failed. 
XLAL Error - XLALFrameUFrFileOpen_FrameL_ (LALFrameL.c:187): I/O error 
XLAL Error - XLALFrFileOpenURL (LALFrameIO.c:117): Could not open frame file /hdfs/frames/O3/hoft_C01/H1/H-H1_HOFT_C01-12423/H-H1_HOFT_
C01-1242312704-4096.gwf 
XLAL Error - XLALFrFileOpenURL (LALFrameIO.c:117): I/O error 
XLAL Error - XLALFrStreamFileOpen (LALFrStream.c:138): Internal function call failed: I/O error 
XLAL Error - XLALFrStreamCacheOpen (LALFrStream.c:233): Internal function call failed: I/O error 
readTseries ERROR: Unable to open stream from frame cache file

A couple of examples are here:

Run 1: cat /home/rebecca.ewing/pseob_runs/GW190519a/gr_run/log/*.err | grep LALFrameL

Run 2: cat /home/rebecca.ewing/pseob_runs/GW190519a/log/*.err | grep LALFrameL

To briefly describe these two runs, Run 1 was a PE run being done on GW190519a, while Run 2 was the corresponding non-GR run. Both were however done using identical environments, by sourcing:

source /cvmfs/oasis.opensciencegrid.org/ligo/sw/conda/etc/profile.d/conda.sh 
conda activate /home/abhirup.ghosh/.conda/envs/lalsuite-v6.70_pSEOBNRv4HM_tgr
source /home/abhirup.ghosh/.conda/envs/lalsuite-v6.70_pSEOBNRv4HM_tgr/etc/lalsuite

This environment contained the specific branch of lalsuite containing our ringdown pipeline installed in it. These are standard LALInference jobs, except in the case of the non-GR run, we sample over some extra parameters.