<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi, <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> I have a nested matrix with 2x2 blocks. The blocks (1,1) and (2,2) are AIJ matrices and blocks (1,2) and (2,1) and shell matrices. I am calling the code with the following arguments: -pc_type fieldsplit , and get the error shown below. </div><div class=""> </div><div class=""> I see that the error is complaining about the matrix being in unassembled state, but I think I am initializing and calling assembly end routines on both the diagonal blocks. Still, there is something obvious I am missing. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> I would appreciate any guidance on this. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards,</div><div class="">Manav<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class="">[1;31m[0]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message --------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">[0;39m[0;49m[0]PETSC ERROR: Object is in wrong state</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">[0]PETSC ERROR: Not for unassembled matrix</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">[0]PETSC ERROR: See <a href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/faq.html" class="">http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/faq.html</a> for trouble shooting.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">[0]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Release Version 3.7.4, Oct, 02, 2016 </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">[0]PETSC ERROR: /Users/manav/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/MAST-crggwcqrouiyeucduvscdahjauvx/Build/Products/Debug/examples on a arch-darwin-cxx-opt named <a href="http://Dhcp-90-250.HPC.MsState.Edu" class="">Dhcp-90-250.HPC.MsState.Edu</a> by manav Wed Feb 8 15:28:04 2017</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">[0]PETSC ERROR: Configure options --prefix=/Users/manav/Documents/codes/numerical_lib/petsc/petsc-3.7.4/../ --CC=mpicc-openmpi-clang38 --CXX=mpicxx-openmpi-clang38 --FC=mpif90-openmpi-clang38 --with-clanguage=c++ --with-fortran=0 --with-mpiexec=/opt/local/bin/mpiexec-openmpi-clang38 --with-shared-libraries=1 --with-x=1 --with-x-dir=/opt/X11 --with-debugging=0 --with-lapack-lib=/usr/lib/liblapack.dylib --with-blas-lib=/usr/lib/libblas.dylib --download-superlu=yes --download-superlu_dist=yes --download-suitesparse=yes --download-mumps=yes --download-scalapack=yes --download-parmetis=yes --download-metis=yes --download-hypre=yes --download-ml=yes</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">[0]PETSC ERROR: #1 MatMult() line 2248 in /Users/manav/Documents/codes/numerical_lib/petsc/petsc-3.7.4/src/mat/interface/matrix.c</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">[0]PETSC ERROR: #2 PCApplyBAorAB() line 717 in /Users/manav/Documents/codes/numerical_lib/petsc/petsc-3.7.4/src/ksp/pc/interface/precon.c</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">[0]PETSC ERROR: #3 KSP_PCApplyBAorAB() line 274 in /Users/manav/Documents/codes/numerical_lib/petsc/petsc-3.7.4/include/petsc/private/kspimpl.h</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">[0]PETSC ERROR: #4 KSPGMRESCycle() line 156 in /Users/manav/Documents/codes/numerical_lib/petsc/petsc-3.7.4/src/ksp/ksp/impls/gmres/gmres.c</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">[0]PETSC ERROR: #5 KSPSolve_GMRES() line 240 in /Users/manav/Documents/codes/numerical_lib/petsc/petsc-3.7.4/src/ksp/ksp/impls/gmres/gmres.c</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">[0]PETSC ERROR: #6 KSPSolve() line 656 in /Users/manav/Documents/codes/numerical_lib/petsc/petsc-3.7.4/src/ksp/ksp/interface/itfunc.c</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">[0]PETSC ERROR: #7 SNESSolve_NEWTONLS() line 230 in /Users/manav/Documents/codes/numerical_lib/petsc/petsc-3.7.4/src/snes/impls/ls/ls.c</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">[0]PETSC ERROR: #8 SNESSolve() line 4005 in /Users/manav/Documents/codes/numerical_lib/petsc/petsc-3.7.4/src/snes/interface/snes.c</span></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div></div></body></html>