[gmx-developers] tpbconv

[David van der Spoel]

On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 10:37, Berk Hess wrote:
> >I've had a couple of times now that for some reason the last (complete) 
> >frame in the .trr file is corrupted after a crash. But not so corrupted 
> >that
> >tpbconv would notice it, so it happily writes out an unusable .tpr file, 
> >which
> >produces a strange error in mdrun (typically a SEGV). Would it be possible
> >to do a more thorough check in tpbconv? Or perhaps it would be safer to use 
> >the
> >last-but-one frame instead of the last one by default?
> 
> That's quite strange. A long time ago I rewrote the trajectory checking
> and I thought it would catch all errors.
> I assume there are no other Gromacs programs that detect an error in that 
> trajectory?
gmxcheck is made for that. Don't know whether it's perfect. There should
be checks in reading deep down in trnio.c I presume...

> This should certainly be fixed.
> 
> Berk.
> 
> 
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