[petsc-dev] Fwd: [petsc-maint #106588] ascii reader

Barry Smith bsmith at mcs.anl.gov
Tue Feb 21 14:01:11 CST 2012


    The server for all the maints was hosed at ANL. It is supposedly fixed now.

   barry

On Feb 21, 2012, at 12:45 PM, Matthew Knepley wrote:

> I sent this yesterday! What is going on with petsc-main mail?
> 
>    Matt
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Matthew Knepley <petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov>
> Date: Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [petsc-maint #106588] ascii reader
> To: petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov, jliu <jliu at ices.utexas.edu>
> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:05 PM, jliu <jliu at ices.utexas.edu> wrote:
> 
> > The length seems to be wrong ...
> >
> 
> This is unhelpful. I can't understand how someone would be expected to
> debug something
> with the statement "this value seems to be wrong"? Here are things that
> would be helpful
> 
>  a) What is the original vector size and ghost size?
> 
>  b) What is the size in the file?
> 
> If you want this fixed, I would give us the information you would need to
> understand it.
> 
>    Matt
> 
> What do you mean by corrupt? The code I use to write the vector is:
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > void PDNSolution::WriteBinary(const char * file_name)
> > {
> >  PetscViewer viewer;
> >  PetscViewerCreate(PETSC_COMM_WORLD, &viewer);
> >  PetscViewerSetType(viewer, PETSCVIEWERBINARY);
> >  PetscViewerFileSetMode(viewer, FILE_MODE_WRITE);
> >  PetscViewerBinarySetMPIIO(viewer);
> >  PetscViewerBinarySkipInfo(viewer);
> >  PetscViewerFileSetName(viewer, file_name);
> >
> >  VecView(solution, viewer);
> >  PetscViewerDestroy(&viewer);
> > };
> >
> > The input solution is a parallel vector with ghost component. I am not
> > sure if that's enough for debugging.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 02/20/2012 09:59 PM, Matthew Knepley wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 9:50 PM, jliu <jliu at ices.utexas.edu
> > > <mailto:jliu at ices.utexas.edu>> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >     OK.
> > >
> > >     This is my read code:
> > >
> > >     159     ierr = PetscViewerBinaryOpen(PETSC_COMM_SELF,
> > >     "Nonlinear_Diff_temp_900000000",
> > >     160         FILE_MODE_READ, &view_in);
> > >     161     CHKERRQ(ierr);
> > >     162
> > >     163     ierr = VecLoad(sol, view_in); CHKERRQ(ierr);
> > >
> > >
> > > The file now is clearly corrupt. So we can debug this if you make a
> > > small example code
> > > and send it. You can debug it with this code if you go into the
> > > debugger and check the
> > > size it reads in at the top of the file, and compare to the length of
> > > the vector you wrote.
> > >
> > >    Matt
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >     I get error message:
> > >     [0]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message
> > >     ------------------------------------
> > >     [0]PETSC ERROR: Read from file failed!
> > >     [0]PETSC ERROR: Read past end of file!
> > >     [0]PETSC ERROR:
> > >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >     [0]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Release Version 3.2.0, Patch 5, Sat Oct 29
> > >     13:45:54 CDT 2011
> > >     [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/changes/index.html for recent updates.
> > >     [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/faq.html for hints about trouble shooting.
> > >     [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/index.html for manual pages.
> > >     [0]PETSC ERROR:
> > >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >     [0]PETSC ERROR: ./postprocess_error on a linux-gnu named hahn by jliu
> > >     Mon Feb 20 21:49:44 2012
> > >     [0]PETSC ERROR: Libraries linked from
> > >     /org/groups/hughes/opt/lin/petsc-3.2-p5/linux-gnu-c-debug/lib
> > >     [0]PETSC ERROR: Configure run at Fri Feb  3 15:33:57 2012
> > >     [0]PETSC ERROR: Configure options --with-cc=gcc --with-fc=gfortran
> > >     --download-f-blas-lapack=1 --download-mpich=1
> > >     [0]PETSC ERROR:
> > >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >     [0]PETSC ERROR: PetscBinaryRead() line 271 in
> > >     /org/groups/hughes/opt/lin/petsc-3.2-p5/src/sys/fileio/sysio.c
> > >     [0]PETSC ERROR: VecLoad_Binary() line 123 in
> > >     /org/groups/hughes/opt/lin/petsc-3.2-p5/src/vec/vec/utils/vecio.c
> > >     [0]PETSC ERROR: VecLoad_Default() line 359 in
> > >     /org/groups/hughes/opt/lin/petsc-3.2-p5/src/vec/vec/utils/vecio.c
> > >     [0]PETSC ERROR: VecLoad() line 1081 in
> > >
> > /org/groups/hughes/opt/lin/petsc-3.2-p5/src/vec/vec/interface/vector.c
> > >     [0]PETSC ERROR: User provided function() line 163 in
> > >     "unknowndirectory/"/h1/jliu/IsoPETSc/trunk/postprocess_error.cpp
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >     On 02/20/2012 09:43 PM, Matthew Knepley wrote:
> > >     > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 9:36 PM, jliu <jliu at ices.utexas.edu
> > >     <mailto:jliu at ices.utexas.edu>
> > >     > <mailto:jliu at ices.utexas.edu <mailto:jliu at ices.utexas.edu>>>
> > wrote:
> > >     >
> > >     >     On 02/20/2012 09:31 PM, Jed Brown wrote:
> > >     >     > Always include petsc-maint.
> > >     >     >
> > >     >     > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 21:28, jliu <jliu at ices.utexas.edu
> > >     <mailto:jliu at ices.utexas.edu>
> > >     >     <mailto:jliu at ices.utexas.edu <mailto:jliu at ices.utexas.edu>>
> > >     >     > <mailto:jliu at ices.utexas.edu <mailto:jliu at ices.utexas.edu>
> > >     <mailto:jliu at ices.utexas.edu <mailto:jliu at ices.utexas.edu>>>> wrote:
> > >     >     >
> > >     >     >     I tried binary, but I always get an error:
> > >     >     >
> > >     >     >     [0]PETSC ERROR: Read from file failed!
> > >     >     >     [0]PETSC ERROR: Read past end of file!
> > >     >     >
> > >     >     >     I do not know what's wrong with the binary reader..
> > >     >     >
> > >     >     > You have not explained what you wrote to the file or how you
> > >     >     tried to
> > >     >     > read the file.
> > >     >     Oh,
> > >     >
> > >     >     I write my binary file as:
> > >     >
> > >     >      PetscViewer viewer;
> > >     >      PetscViewerCreate(PETSC_COMM_WORLD, &viewer);
> > >     >      PetscViewerSetType(viewer, PETSCVIEWERBINARY);
> > >     >      PetscViewerFileSetMode(viewer, FILE_MODE_WRITE);
> > >     >      PetscViewerBinarySetMPIIO(viewer);
> > >     >      PetscViewerBinarySkipInfo(viewer);
> > >     >      PetscViewerFileSetName(viewer, file_name);
> > >     >
> > >     >      VecView(solution, viewer);
> > >     >      PetscViewerDestroy(&viewer);
> > >     >
> > >     >
> > >     > As I said, check all return values so I can see the stack. How
> > >     hard is
> > >     >
> > >     >   ierr = VecLoad(); CHKERRQ(ierr);
> > >     >
> > >     >      Matt
> > >     >
> > >     >
> > >     >
> > >     >     and I tried to read the saved file with:
> > >     >
> > >     >        PetscViewerBinaryOpen(PETSC_COMM_SELF,
> > >     >     "Nonlinear_Diff_temp_900000000",
> > >     >            FILE_MODE_READ, &view_in);
> > >     >        PetscViewerBinaryGetDescriptor(view_in,&fd);
> > >     >        PetscBinaryRead(fd,&sz,1,PETSC_INT);
> > >     >        cout<<sz<<endl;
> > >     >        PetscBinaryRead(fd,sol,100,PETSC_SCALAR);
> > >     >        VecLoad(sol, view_in);
> > >     >
> > >     >
> > >     >     I vector saved is a parallel ghost vector. I don't know if
> > >     that is an
> > >     >     issue. Else, I can not see what is the problem...
> > >     >
> > >     >
> > >     >
> > >     >
> > >     >
> > >     >
> > >     >
> > >     >
> > >     > --
> > >     > What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
> > >     > experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to
> > which
> > >     > their experiments lead.
> > >     > -- Norbert Wiener
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
> > > experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which
> > > their experiments lead.
> > > -- Norbert Wiener
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> --
> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
> experiments lead.
> -- Norbert Wiener
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.
> -- Norbert Wiener




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