<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="margin: 0px;">It’s the first time I’m trying to setup field split so maybe I’m missing something</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">I have a MatNest with NULL (1,1) block. I setup the field split using the row ISs from the MatNest (a note aside: why they cannot be inferred by FieldSplit if pc->pmat is of type MatNEST?)</div><div style="margin: 0px;">Options used are -pc_fieldsplit_type additive and -pc_fieldsplit_detect_saddle_point</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">I then get this error, because MatGetSubMatrix_Nest returns a NULL pointer.</div><div style="margin: 0px;">What is the solution? having MatGetSubMatrix_Nest return a zero-valued matrix of correct size? any command line option I’m not using? Or instead having Fieldsplit handle the case?</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Menlo;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Menlo;">[0]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message --------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Menlo;">[0]PETSC ERROR: Null argument, when expecting valid pointer</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Menlo;">[0]PETSC ERROR: Null Object: Parameter # 1</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Menlo;">[0]PETSC ERROR: See <a href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/faq.html">http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/faq.html</a> for trouble shooting.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Menlo;">[0]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Development GIT revision: v3.7.2-744-gb54d608 GIT Date: 2016-06-28 18:20:20 +0300</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Menlo;">[0]PETSC ERROR: Unknown Name on a debug named kl-13916.local by szampini Sun Jul 31 14:47:53 2016</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Menlo;">[0]PETSC ERROR: Configure options --download-chaco --download-ctetgen --download-exodusii --download-hdf5 --download-hypre --download-metis --download-mpich --download-mumps --download-netcdf --download-p4est --download-parmetis --download-ptscotch --download-scalapack --download-suitesparse --download-triangle --with-valgrind-dir=/usr/local/ CC=/usr/local/bin/gcc-5 CXX=/usr/local/bin/g++-5 FC=/usr/local/bin/gfortran-5 PETSC_ARCH=debug</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Menlo;">[0]PETSC ERROR: #1 MatSetOptionsPrefix() line 654 in /Users/szampini/software/petsc/src/mat/interface/matrix.c</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Menlo;">[0]PETSC ERROR: #2 PCSetUp_FieldSplit() line 558 in /Users/szampini/software/petsc/src/ksp/pc/impls/fieldsplit/fieldsplit.c</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Menlo;">[0]PETSC ERROR: #3 PCSetUp() line 968 in /Users/szampini/software/petsc/src/ksp/pc/interface/precon.c</div><div><br></div></body></html>