[petsc-dev] PetscIntialize docs

[Satish Balay]

On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, Mark F. Adams wrote:

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> On Sep 5, 2013, at 12:46 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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> > On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, Satish Balay wrote:
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> >> On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, Mark F. Adams wrote:
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> >>> I wanted to not have files get checked and added -skip_petscrc to
> >>> the command line but this was not sufficient.  I needed to change
> >>> the code to use NULL (or I told my user to do so).
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> > Was 'useroptfile' causing some problem - or is it that you wanted to
> > avoid it for some other reason?
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> This was the problem with Mira that we went through with Jeff H. last week.  Where getting the home directory was failing occasionally and hanging the system.  So I was told to use -skip_petscrc on the command line, which failed to get the code to skip the (user) RC file.

But did the code hang or crash?

Satish

>  In looking at the code I realized that you need to not give PetscInitialize() an RC file name.   So we need to change the code slightly but it took a while to figure that out (e.g., I had to look at the source).
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> > thanks,
> > Satish
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