[gmx-users] Re: itp file

Mark Abraham Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au
Tue Aug 11 02:36:47 CEST 2009


Jamie Seyed wrote:
> Hi Justin,
> Thanks again... . Actully I have a question: I have 1836 atoms (572 water
> and 1 molecule with 120 atoms). In top of my file.gro I have 1836 and in
> topology in [molecules] I have c60ch3 1; and SOL 572 which means the same as
> above. So how I should change it to get rid of error...??/ Thank you in
> advance.../Jamie

Make sure you have only one [ molecules ] section. I think Justin's 
probably picked your problem, inasmuch as you've just renamed a 
molecule.top to molecule.itp without removing the directives that should 
not be in an .itp file.

Mark

> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Jamie Seyed wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Justin,
>>> Oh yes. I had a line that include ff again and I deleted that (is that
>>> ok)? now I got a new error related to "number of coordinates in
>>>
>> That's more than OK, that's correct.  As Mark pointed out, there should
>> only ever be one invocation of [ defaults ] in a topology.
>>
>> coordinate file does not match topology..." I should fix this one now!!
>> Simple one to fix.  Figure out where the duplicate or missing molecules are
>> within the topology.  I'm guessing your molecule.itp was really a
>> molecule.top, complete with [ defaults ], [ system ], and [ molecules ]
>> directive, right? None of these should be present in an .itp file, only a
>> .top.
>>
>> -Justin
>>
>> Thanks a lot/Jamie
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu<mailto:
>>> jalemkul at vt.edu>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>    Can you post the contents of molecule.itp?  The first #include for
>>>    the force field is likely not the problem; you've probably #included
>>>    it again in molecule.itp.
>>>
>>>    -Justin
>>>
>>>    Jamie Seyed wrote:
>>>
>>>        Dear all,
>>>        I have a topology contains line as below. I do not understand
>>>        what is wrong with it that I get an error
>>>        -----------
>>>         Program grompp, Version 4.0.5
>>>         Source Code file: topio.c, line: 415
>>>         Fatal error:
>>>         Syntax error-File ffoplsaa.itp, line 18
>>>         last line read:
>>>         '[defaults]'
>>>         Invalid order for directive defaults
>>>        --------------
>>>        according to the page
>>>
>>> http://oldwiki.gromacs.org/index.php/Errors#Found_a_second_defaults_directive_file
>>>        I do not have twice default section... SO I do not know exactly
>>>        which files I should check... It says topology and ff. Topology
>>>        that I am using in grompp is as below and the ffoplsaa.itp has
>>>        only one default section...
>>>        Would you please help me to solve the problem.
>>>        topol.top: -------------
>>>        #include "ffoplsaa.itp"
>>>        #include "spce.itp"
>>>        #include "molecule.itp"
>>>        [system]
>>>        fullerene in water
>>>        [molecules]
>>>        molecule   1
>>>        SOL       1000
>>>        --------------------
>>>        Many Thanks in Advance and I appreciate your help/Jamie
>>>
>>>         On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Jamie Seyed
>>>        <jamie.seyed at gmail.com <mailto:jamie.seyed at gmail.com>
>>>        <mailto:jamie.seyed at gmail.com <mailto:jamie.seyed at gmail.com>>>
>>>        wrote:
>>>
>>>           Dear Vitaly,
>>>           topol.top: -------------
>>>           #include "ffoplsaa.itp"
>>>           #include "spce.itp"
>>>           #include "c80ch3.itp"
>>>           [system]
>>>           fullerene in water
>>>           [molecules]
>>>           C80CH3   1
>>>           SOL       1000
>>>           --------------------
>>>           my command is:
>>>           grompp -f md.mdp -c f.gro -p topol.top -o pr.tpr  -maxwarn 10
>>>               Thank you for helping me out to solve the problem/
>>>        Regards/Jamie
>>>                   On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Vitaly V. Chaban
>>>           <vvchaban at gmail.com <mailto:vvchaban at gmail.com>
>>>        <mailto:vvchaban at gmail.com <mailto:vvchaban at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>               Jamie,
>>>
>>>               The idea is the same. Some directive is not at its place. I
>>>               cannot say
>>>               which is exactly because I don't see all the picture with
>>>        your
>>>               topology file (+included files). Write the sequence of
>>>        directives as
>>>               they go in .top (+included .itp) and then we will see
>>>        what sections
>>>               must be shifted or maybe just swapped.
>>>
>>>               Vitaly
>>>
>>>               On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Jamie
>>>               Seyed<jamie.seyed at gmail.com
>>>        <mailto:jamie.seyed at gmail.com> <mailto:jamie.seyed at gmail.com
>>>        <mailto:jamie.seyed at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>>                > Hi Vitaly,
>>>                > When I add it back, I got the old error
>>>                > -----------
>>>                > Program grompp, Version 4.0.5
>>>                > Source Code file: topio.c, line: 415
>>>                > Fatal error:
>>>                > Syntax error-File ffoplsaa.itp, line 18
>>>                > last line read:
>>>                > '[defaults]'
>>>                > Invalid order for directive defaults
>>>                > -----------
>>>                > Now do you have any idea??? I appreciate your help/Jamie
>>>                >
>>>                > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Jamie Seyed
>>>               <jamie.seyed at gmail.com <mailto:jamie.seyed at gmail.com>
>>>        <mailto:jamie.seyed at gmail.com <mailto:jamie.seyed at gmail.com>>>
>>>        wrote:
>>>                >>
>>>                >> Hi Vitaly,
>>>                >> I did it because I read from
>>>                >>
>>>
>>> http://oldwiki.gromacs.org/index.php/Errors#Found_a_second_defaults_directive_file
>>>                >> that says:
>>>                >> "One solution is to simply comment out (or delete)
>>>        the lines
>>>               of code out
>>>                >> in the file where it is included for the second time
>>>        i.e.,
>>>               ..". So if it is
>>>                >> the case I am going to undo it to see what happens...
>>>        I will
>>>               let you know.
>>>                >> Thanks/Jamie
>>>                >> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Vitaly V. Chaban
>>>               <vvchaban at gmail.com <mailto:vvchaban at gmail.com>
>>>        <mailto:vvchaban at gmail.com <mailto:vvchaban at gmail.com>>>
>>>
>>>                >> wrote:
>>>                >>>
>>>                >>> Why did you comment out [defaults] in ffoplsaa.itp? The
>>>               general idea
>>>                >>> is that the sections in the resulting topology file
>>>        (after
>>>               including
>>>                >>> #include's) must be placed in the strict order.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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