[gmx-users] error message in mdrun: Check for bad contacts and/or reduce the timestep if appropriate.

[Justin Lemkul]

On 5/4/14, 11:42 AM, Nizar Masbukhin wrote:
> Hi friends,
> I am calculating free energy of a protein. I got this message when i run mdrun. My command was  mdrun -deffnm npt -nt 1
>
> Step 2, time 0.004 (ps)  LINCS WARNING
> relative constraint deviation after LINCS:
> rms 0.000022, max 0.000500 (between atoms 2240 and 2243)
> bonds that rotated more than 30 degrees:
>   atom 1 atom 2  angle  previous, current, constraint length
>     2844   2845   39.8    0.1105   0.1090      0.1090
>
> step 2: Water molecule starting at atom 41058 can not be settled.
> Check for bad contacts and/or reduce the timestep if appropriate.
>
> I have reduced nsteps from 5000 to 10000, but the same error message appeared

As you should expect - if your failure is at step 2, then changing the number of 
steps from 10000 to 5000 should not change anything!

What do you mean "calculating the free energy of a protein?"  Are you trying to 
decouple an entire protein?  That would be extremely difficult and unlikely to 
succeed.  What is in your .mdp file?

-Justin

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