[gmx-users] pdb2gmx segmentation fault

Ragothaman Yennamalli ragothaman at gmail.com
Wed Apr 20 17:23:25 CEST 2011


On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:

>
>
> Ragothaman Yennamalli wrote:
>
>> Dear Justin,
>>
>> Thanks for the mail. Yes, without these CFLAGS the "make" was not
>> successful. Yes I did set the CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS before configuring
>> gromacs. Since without it it would have stopped compiling. I want to agree
>> with you that it is some issue with shared libraries, but i dont think it is
>> the issue since I have used the flag --enable-shared. Also,
>>
>
> You did --enable-shared for FFTW, but not Gromacs.  Perhaps there is some
> mismatch there.
>
>
Since configure did not have any such option, i did not use it. However, I
tried compiling with --enable-shared to reinstall gromacs. It installed
without any issues. But, the same segmentation fault.


>
>  if this was the case then editconf would not have worked as well.
>>
>>
> I wouldn't rule it out just yet.  If the installation was successful,
> everything would work.
>
> -Justin
>
>  Thanks and Regards,
>> Raghu
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu<mailto:
>> jalemkul at vt.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>    Ragothaman Yennamalli wrote:
>>
>>        These were the exact commands used to install fftw 3.2.2
>>        ./configure  --prefix=/export/home/raghu/fftw --enable-float
>>        --enable-shared CC=cc F77=f77
>>        make -j 48
>>        make install
>>
>>        These were the exact commands used to install gromacs4.5.4
>>        ./configure  --prefix=/export/home/raghu/gromacs
>>        --with-fft=fftw3 --without-x --enable-float CC=gcc-4.3.2
>>        CXX=g++-4.3.2 CFLAGS='-O3 -fomit-frame-pointer
>>        -finline-functions -Wall -Wno-unused -msse2 -funroll-all-loops
>>        -std=gnu99 -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS'
>>
>>
>>    I'm no compiler expert, but is it necessary to set all these CFLAGS
>>    here?  Does the installation fail for some reason if they're not set?
>>
>>    Also, how is Gromacs finding FFTW?  You haven't set the CPPFLAGS or
>>    LDFLAGS.
>>
>>
>>        make -j 48
>>        make install
>>
>>        I had installed the gromacs version 4.5.3 earlier and
>>        encountered the same problem with pdb2gmx. Hence installed the
>>        latest version.
>>
>>
>>    This would indicate to me that the problem is not necessarily in
>>    Gromacs, but the way you're installing it, and as Mark suggested, is
>>    probably related to some static/shared library issue.
>>
>>    -Justin
>>
>>        Thanks and Regards,
>>        Raghu
>>
>>
>>
>>        On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Justin A. Lemkul
>>        <jalemkul at vt.edu <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>
>>        <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>           Ragothaman Yennamalli wrote:
>>
>>               I had the issue of shared libraries while installing
>>        which I did
>>               troubleshoot and the installation went without any errors. I
>>               tried converting the pdb file to a new one using editconf
>>        and it
>>               runs perfectly fine. So, there is some issue with
>>        pdb2gmx, which
>>               I am not able to detect.
>>               Any hints will be appreciated.
>>
>>
>>           Please provide the exact commands that you used to install
>>        Gromacs.
>>            What exactly were the issues that you had to circumvent?
>>         Have you
>>           installed previous versions of Gromacs that have worked, such
>>        that
>>           this problem is specific to 4.5.4?
>>
>>           -Justin
>>
>>               Thanks and Regards,
>>               Raghu
>>
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>>               On 4/20/2011 7:38 AM, Ragothaman Yennamalli wrote:
>>                > Hi,
>>                > I have installed the latest version of gromacs 4.5.4
>>        and the
>>                > installation went fine. When I run pdb2gmx I get
>>        Segmentation
>>               fault
>>                > even before I could select the force field options. I
>>        tried with
>>                > different pdb files and I get seg fault without any other
>>               error messages.
>>                > The command is: pdb2gmx -f new.pdb -o conf.gro -p
>>        topol.top
>>
>>               Probably, no other GROMACS command works either, because
>>        of some
>>               shared
>>               library issue related to your new installation.
>>
>>               Mark
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>               Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
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>>        Ragothaman M Yennamalli, Ph.D.
>>        Postdoctoral Research Associate
>>        1012 Crop Genome Informatics Laboratory
>>        Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
>>        Iowa State University
>>        Ames, Iowa 50011-3260 USA
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>>    Virginia Tech
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>> Ragothaman M Yennamalli, Ph.D.
>> Postdoctoral Research Associate
>> 1012 Crop Genome Informatics Laboratory
>> Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
>> Iowa State University
>> Ames, Iowa 50011-3260 USA
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Postdoctoral Research Associate
1012 Crop Genome Informatics Laboratory
Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011-3260 USA

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