[gmx-users] gromacs.org_gmx-users Digest, Vol 148, Issue 102

Seera Suryanarayana palusoori at gmail.com
Mon Aug 29 12:17:01 CEST 2016


Sub: Segmentation fault

Dear Justin and Vivek,

I came to know what was my fault. I added the refcoordscale = com  in .mdp
file and it going fine. I have through the many references for
refcoordscale, despite of some information I am not getting what exactly it
is?  Kindly give me some hit.

Surya
Graduate student
India.

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>    1. Re: Segmentation fault (Justin Lemkul)
>    2. gmx: malloc(): memory corruption (Quyen V. Vu)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 22:17:13 -0400
> From: Justin Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu>
> To: gmx-users at gromacs.org
> Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Segmentation fault
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> On 8/27/16 5:32 PM, vivek naik wrote:
> > I don't think you can do a simulation with pressure if you have position
> > restraints, except if your restrained atoms are all in the same plane.
>
> This is not true.
>
> > However, ref_coordscaling option should be 'com', which should make it
> > better than it is now.
> >
>
> "com" is just one possible option, but it is probably the most stable in
> most cases.
>
> > Also, there is no way isotropic pressure is going to work. it has to be
> > anisotropic (xy and z, with the first one being kept to zero).
> >
>
> Anisotropic means all box vectors can vary independently and is usually
> applied
> to crystals or other solid materials.  Coupling xy and z separately is
> semiisotropic and is usually used with membranes and surfaces.  For a
> simple
> aqueous protein system, isotropic is in fact correct.
>
> -Justin
>
> > Vivek
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Seera Suryanarayana <
> palusoori at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Dear gromacs users,
> >>
> >> I have done mdrun for 10ns with position restrain of interest of our
> >> residues. Here I woulk like to explain how I did the position restrain.
> >>
> >> During gmx pdb2gmx command we usually get posre.itp file which we use in
> >> the equilibrium process to restraint the protein. As I want to do real
> >> mdrun with restraint on some residues, I just edited the posre.itp file
> and
> >> kept the restrain information only for residues of my interest and I
> define
> >> in the md.mdp file as "define  =_DPOSRES       ; position restrain the
> >> protein".  I haven't anything to the topology file. When I executed the
> >> grompp command I got following warning and then error.
> >>
> >> WARNING 1 [file md.mdp]:
> >> you are using pressure coupling with absolute positions restraints, this
> >> will give artifacts. use the refcoord_scaling option and the error was
> too
> >> many wanrings[1], gmx terminated. Then I executed grompp with the
> -maxwarn
> >> 1. After preprocessing  I did simuations for 10ns. When I try to remove
> the
> >> PBC with trjconv command I got segmentaion fault error. I request you to
> >> tell me What I did wrong and how to resolve it?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance
> >> Surya
> >> Graduate student
> >> India.
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> Justin A. Lemkul, Ph.D.
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 14:47:30 +0700
> From: "Quyen V. Vu" <vuqv.phys at gmail.com>
> To: "gromacs.org_gmx-users at maillist.sys.kth.se"
>         <gromacs.org_gmx-users at maillist.sys.kth.se>
> Subject: [gmx-users] gmx: malloc(): memory corruption
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> Dear GMX user,
> I have just installed *gromacs 2016.1* on my machine and run mdrun with
> these option:
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> -------------------------------------
> title                   = 50AT DNA MD simulation
> ; Run parameters
> integrator              = md                    ; leap-frog integrator
> nsteps                  = 5000                  ; 2 * 5000000 = 10000 ps
> (10 ns)
> dt                      = 0.002                 ; 2 fs
> ; Output control
> nstxout                 = 500                   ; save coordinates every
> 20.0 ps
> nstvout                 = 500                   ; save velocities every
> 20.0 ps
> nstenergy               = 500                   ; save energies every 20.0
> ps
> nstlog                  = 500                   ; update log file every
> 20.0 ps
> nstxout-compressed      = 500                   ; save compressed
> coordinates every 20.0 ps
> ; nstxout-compressed replaces nstxtcout
> compressed-x-grps       = SYSTEM                ; replaces xtc-grps
> ; Bond parameters
> continuation            = yes                   ; Restarting after NPT
> constraint_algorithm    = lincs                 ; holonomic constraints
> constraints             = all-bonds             ; all bonds (even heavy
> atom-H bonds) constrained
> lincs_iter              = 1                     ; accuracy of LINCS
> lincs_order             = 4                     ; also related to accuracy
> ; Neighborsearching
> cutoff-scheme           = Verlet
> ns_type                 = grid                  ; search neighboring grid
> cells
> nstlist                 = 40                    ; 20 fs, largerly
> irrelevant with Verlet scheme
> rcoulomb                = 1.0                   ; short-range electrostatic
> cutoff (in nm)
> rvdw                    = 1.0                   ; short-range van der Waals
> cutoff (in nm)
> ; Electrostatics
> coulombtype             = PME                   ; Particle Mesh Ewald for
> long-range electrostatics
> pme_order               =5                      ; cubic interpolation
> fourierspacing          = 0.16                  ; grid spacing for FFT
> ; Temperature coupling is on
> tcoupl                  = Nose-Hoover           ; More accurate thermostat
> nsttcouple              = 1
> tc-grps                 = DNA SOL ION           ; three coupling groups -
> more accurate
> tau_t                   = 0.1 0.1 0.1           ; time constant, in ps
> ref_t                   = 298 298 298           ; reference temperature,
> one for each group, in K
> ; Pressure coupling is on
> pcoupl                  = Parrinello-Rahman     ; Pressure coupling on in
> NPT
> pcoupltype              = isotropic             ; uniform scaling of box
> vectors
> tau_p                   = 2.0                   ; time constant, in ps
> ref_p                   = 1.0                   ; reference pressure, in
> bar
> compressibility         = 4.5e-5                ; isothermal
> compressibility of water, bar^-1
> ; Periodic boundary conditions
> pbc                     = xyz                   ; 3-D PBC
> ; Dispersion correction
> DispCorr                = EnerPres              ; account for cut-off vdW
> scheme
> ; Velocity generation
> gen_vel                 = no                    ;do not generate Velocity
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> -------------------------------------
> *After that, I use trjconv to get position of DNA by command:*
>        gmx trjconv -s md.tpr -f md.xtc -o md_mol.xtc -pbc mol -ur compact
> and gmx prompt:
> Group     0 (         System) has 500179 elements
> Group     1 (            DNA) has  3198 elements
> Group     2 (             NA) has   129 elements
> Group     3 (             CL) has    31 elements
> Group     4 (          Water) has 496821 elements
> Group     5 (            SOL) has 496821 elements
> Group     6 (      non-Water) has  3358 elements
> Group     7 (            Ion) has   160 elements
> Group     8 (             NA) has   129 elements
> Group     9 (             CL) has    31 elements
> Group    10 ( Water_and_ions) has 496981 elements
>
> *I type 1 and press Enter then get message:*
> Select a group: 1
> Selected 1: 'DNA'
> Reading frame       0 time    0.000
> Precision of md.xtc is 0.001 (nm)
> Using output precision of 0.001 (nm)
>
> Back Off! I just backed up md_mol.xtc to ./#md_mol.xtc.2#
> *** Error in `gmx': malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0000000001be5c30 ***
> Aborted
>
>
> *Could you tell me this error is caused by me or gromacs program?*
> *Thank you*
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 15:34:34 +0545
> From: Roshan Shrestha <roshanpra at gmail.com>
> To: gromacs.org_gmx-users at maillist.sys.kth.se
> Subject: [gmx-users] KALP-15 tutorial
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>
> After using this step-
> *perl inflategro.pl <http://inflategro.pl> system.gro 4 DPPC 14
> system_inflated.gro 5 area.dat*
> Reading.....
> Scaling lipids....
> There are 128 lipids...
> with 50 atoms per lipid..
>
> Determining upper and lower leaflet...
> 64 lipids in the upper...
> 64 lipids in the lower leaflet
>
> Centering protein....
> Checking for overlap....
> ...this might actually take a while....
> 100 % done...
> There are 2 lipids within cut-off range...
> 1 will be removed from the upper leaflet...
> 1 will be removed from the lower leaflet...
>
> Writing scaled bilayer & centered protein...
>
>
> Calculating Area per lipid...
> Protein X-min/max: 26    40
> Protein Y-min/max: 25    39
> X-range: 14 A    Y-range: 14 A
> Building 14 X 14 2D grid on protein coordinates...
> Calculating area occupied by protein..
> full TMD..
> upper TMD....
> lower TMD....
> Area per protein: 2 nm^2
> Area per lipid: 10.4716089904762 nm^2
>
> Area per protein, upper half: 1.75 nm^2
> Area per lipid, upper leaflet : 10.4755772444444 nm^2
>
> Area per protein, lower half: 2 nm^2
> Area per lipid, lower leaflet : 10.4716089904762 nm^2
>
> Writing Area per lipid...
> Then I updated [ molecules] section of my topol.top as
> [ molecules ]
> ; Compound        #mols
> DPPC                126
> Protein             1
> Then I ran energy minimization. After that I used
> *perl inflategro.pl <http://inflategro.pl> EM.gro 0.95 DPPC 0
> system_shrink1.gro 5 area_shrink1.dat*
> I got,
> Reading.....
> Scaling lipids....
> There are 128 lipids...
> with 50 atoms per lipid..
>
> Determining upper and lower leaflet...
> 64 lipids in the upper...
> 64 lipids in the lower leaflet
>
> No protein coordinates found...
> Writing scaled bilayer & centered protein...
>
>
> Calculating Area per lipid...
> Protein X-min/max: 10000    -9999
> Protein Y-min/max: 10000    -9999
> X-range: -19999 A    Y-range: -19999 A
> Building -19999 X -19999 2D grid on protein coordinates...
> Calculating area occupied by protein..
> full TMD..
> upper TMD..
> lower TMD..
> Area per protein: 0 nm^2
> Area per lipid: 0.583197761890625 nm^2
>
> Area per protein, upper half: 0 nm^2
> Area per lipid, upper leaflet : 0.583197761890625 nm^2
>
> Area per protein, lower half: 0 nm^2
> Area per lipid, lower leaflet : 0.583197761890625 nm^2
>
> Writing Area per lipid...
> Done!
>
> *Clearly there is some mistake in here as the Area per protein is 0 and
> area per lipid is very low compared to the experimental value.*
>
>
> --
> Roshan Shrestha
> Graduate Student
> Central Department of Physics,Tribhuvan University
> Kathmandu,Nepal
>
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