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Monitoring and inspecting the result of the environment setup phase
Monitoring and inspecting the result of the environment setup phase

The "buildLog" result file contains the console output from package installation commands and postInstall execution.

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If you’ve customized your run environment, by adding packages, the system will build the environment, and save the console output to a file called buildLog in /results .

If the system can find this custom environment in its cache, it will use that and buildLog will not display in the results. This will happen when a capsule is run a number of times without modifying its environment.

When errors occur during the environment setup phase and are detected by the system, the following error displays: 

The buildLog file will have a record of the problem. These messages can be hard to parse, so please reach out through live chat or an email to support@codeocean.com if you have any questions. 

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