[petsc-dev] PetscIntialize docs

[Mark F. Adams]

On Sep 5, 2013, at 3:29 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, Mark F. Adams wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Sep 5, 2013, at 12:46 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, Satish Balay wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, Mark F. Adams wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> 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).
>>> 
>>> Was 'useroptfile' causing some problem - or is it that you wanted to
>>> avoid it for some other reason?
>> 
>> 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?

No, we have been running small problems, for debugging, and small problems to not trigger this bug.

> 
> 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).
>> 
>>> 
>>> thanks,
>>> Satish
>>> 
>> 
>> 
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