[gmx-users] mpispawn.c:303 Unexpected exit status

[Justin A. Lemkul]

shivkumar bale wrote:
> Hi Justin,
>  
> Sorry about the email. I just made a mistake while posting.
>  
> First of all, Thanks for replying.
>  
> I tried the suggestions you gave like I changed the pbc from full to 
> xyz, removed -Dflex term and also changed the fourier grid spacing but 
> still I am getting the same error. I am attaching the error message with 
> this email. Have a look at it. If you need any more information let me know.
>  

Have a look at the .log file produced by mdrun, if there is one.  Otherwise, 
this really sounds more like a job for your sysadmin, since there is no 
Gromacs-related output that you have shown thus far to indicate that this is a 
Gromacs problem.

-Justin

> Thanks for your help.
>  
> Regards
>  
> Shivkumar
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:53 AM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu 
> <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     You haven't addressed any of the comments or questions I posted earlier:
> 
>     http://lists.gromacs.org/pipermail/gmx-users/2009-December/047294.html
> 
>     When asking for free help, demonstrate that you're willing to take
>     the advice you're given, and if that fails, state what problems
>     remain.  Otherwise, it seems like you're ignoring viable suggestions.
> 
>     For the sake of being explicit: your .mdp file is wrong, and the
>     dynamics are likely spurious.  Solve these issues (which I have
>     described for you!) before moving to a more peripherally-related
>     solution.  Also check the .log file; as I said before, Gromacs
>     rarely exits without offering its own error messages about what's
>     going wrong.  There is nothing in this output that immediately
>     suggests your PME spacing is remotely at fault, but other parameters
>     in your .mdp file are clearly wrong.
> 
>     -Justin
> 
>     shivkumar bale wrote:
> 
>         Hi Gromacs Users,
> 
>         The error:
> 
>         mpispawn.c:303 Unexpected exit status
> 
>         Child exited abnormally!
>         Killing remote processes...DONE
> 
>         Following is the link which might help:
> 
>         http://www.ece.unm.edu/~etanner/MPI.html
>         <http://www.ece.unm.edu/%7Eetanner/MPI.html
>         <http://www.ece.unm.edu/~etanner/MPI.html>>
> 
> 
> 
>         I think the above error is because of the PME calculations and
>         changing the grid spacing might work. But I dont know how to
>         change the grid spacing. Do you have any idea regarding that? Or
>         if you think the error is due to some other reason let me know.
> 
>         I am attaching the .mdp file with this email.
> 
>         Thanks for the help.
> 
>         Regards
> 
>         Shivkumar
> 
> 
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>     Justin A. Lemkul
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>     ICTAS Doctoral Scholar
>     MILES-IGERT Trainee
>     Department of Biochemistry
>     Virginia Tech
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Justin A. Lemkul
Ph.D. Candidate
ICTAS Doctoral Scholar
MILES-IGERT Trainee
Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
jalemkul[at]vt.edu | (540) 231-9080
http://www.bevanlab.biochem.vt.edu/Pages/Personal/justin

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