PETSc, hangs, on, PetscInitialize

[Barry Smith]

  I would run in the debugger and then stop it after it has
hanged a long time (control c in gdb or dbx) then do where to
determine what it is doing. Send the output from where to 
petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov if you need to.


   Barry

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Marcus Heck wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am runing PETSc on the FE-solver FEAP. If I run a normal FE analysis
> everithing is fine!
> 
> Then I want do run a coupled FSI computation. So I initialize PETSc and
> MpCCI (my coupling library) or the other way round (MpCCI, PETSc). But
> PETSc enters the PetscInitialize and never comes out. Does anyone has an
> idea.
> 
> Thanks a lot
> Marcus
> 
> Here some infos about PETSc and my code:
> **************
> PETSc config:
> ./config/configure.py --prefix=/amd/software/linux/petsc-2.3.2-p10 --with-cc=gcc --with-fc=g77 --LD_SHARED= g++ --LDFLAGS="-O1" --with-mpi-dir=/usr/lib/mpich --with-mpi-shared=1
> 
> 
> Compile and linking command in both cases are identical, except the
> MpCCI library includes.
> 
> If there is any idea let me know please
> Thanks a lot in advance
> Marcus
> 
> **************
> CODE inside FEAP75.f
>       write(*,*) 'FEAP starting MpCCI setup and interface definition.'
>       call CCI_Init( iError )
>       write(*,*) 'FEAP starting MpCCI done'
>       write(*,*)'pcontr(): initializing PETSC'
>       call PetscInitialize(PETSC_NULL_CHARACTER,petsc_ierr)
>       write(*,*)'pcontr(): initializing PETSC done'
>       call pstart()
> 
> **************
> CODE OUTPUT:
>  FEAP starting MpCCI setup and interface definition.
> ===========================================================================
> MpCCI 3.0.3 (for MPICH 1.2.5) - compilation date Dec 22 2004 20:08:09
> FhG-SCAI, Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing
> Schloss Birlinghoven, D-53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany
> Coupled computation started at 15-6-2007 11:16:16.
> Running on host 'ares'.
> ===========================================================================
> 
>                    ************************************
>                    *    This MpCCI 3.0 Professional   *
>                    *         is licensed for          *
>                    * TU Darmstadt, FB Maschinenbau, M *
>                    *    until date 28-feb-2008.       *
>                    ************************************
> 
>  FEAP starting MpCCI done
>  pcontr(): initializing PETSC
> 
> **************
> strace on the pid tells:
> 3p$ strace -p17164
> Process 17164 attached - interrupt to quit
> select(5, [3 4], NULL, NULL, {6, 266000}) = 0 (Timeout)
> select(5, [3 4], NULL, NULL, {9, 0})    = 0 (Timeout)
> select(5, [3 4], NULL, NULL, {9, 0})    = 0 (Timeout)
> select(5, [3 4], NULL, NULL, {9, 0})    = 0 (Timeout)
> select(5, [3 4], NULL, NULL, {9, 0})    = 0 (Timeout)
> select(5, [3 4], NULL, NULL, {9, 0})    = 0 (Timeout)
> select(5, [3 4], NULL, NULL, {9, 0})    = 0 (Timeout)
> select(5, [3 4], NULL, NULL, {9, 0})    = 0 (Timeout)
> select(5, [3 4], NULL, NULL, {9, 0})    = 0 (Timeout)
> select(5, [3 4], NULL, NULL, {9, 0})    = 0 (Timeout)
> select(5, [3 4], NULL, NULL, {9, 0})    = 0 (Timeout)
> select(5, [3 4], NULL, NULL, {9, 0})    = 0 (Timeout)
> select(5, [3 4], NULL, NULL, {9, 0})    = 0 (Timeout)
> select(5, [3 4], NULL, NULL, {9, 0})    = 0 (Timeout)
> select(5, [3 4], NULL, NULL, {9, 0}
> -- 8< --- snip -- 8< ---
> 
> **************
> Totalview telals following:
> 
> main (f77) -> perscinitialize_  (C) -> PETScParseFortranArgs_Private (C)
> -> PMPI_Bcast -> inta_Bcast -> ...
> 
> Please see screen shot.
> 
>