PetscValidHeaderSpecific()

[(Rebecca) Xuefei YUAN]

There is no message coming out when I run with -malloc_debug. I am  
using cygwin, any suggestions on that?

Thanks!

Rebecca

Quoting Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov>:

>
>    The most likely cause is memory corruption. The best way to solve
> this problem is to run on linux using
> valgrind (valgrind.org), the second best is to run with -malloc_debug
> and see if any messages come out
>
>    Barry
>
> On Jan 6, 2009, at 4:44 PM, (Rebecca) Xuefei YUAN wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I did have error information as at the end of this email, and I   
>> found the error was a function called PetscValidHeaderSpecific(),   
>> is there anything wrong with it?
>>
>> Thanks a lot!
>>
>> R
>>
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Invalid argument!
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Wrong type of object: Parameter # 1!
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: ----------------------------------------
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Release Version 3.0.0, Patch 0, Fri Dec 19   
>> 22:02:38 CST 2008
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/changes/index.html for recent updates.
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/faq.html for hints about trouble shooting.
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/index.html for manual pages.
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: ----------------------------------------
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: ./oreggt on a cygwin-c- named YUAN_WORK by Rebecca   
>> Tue Jan 6 17:29:59 2009
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Libraries linked from   
>> /home/Rebecca/soft/petsc-3.0.0-p0/cygwin-c-debug/lib
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Configure run at Mon Jan 5 13:50:14 2009
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Configure options --with-cc=gcc   
>> --download-f-blas-lapack=1 --download-mpich=1 --useThreads=0   
>> --with-shared=0
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: ----------------------------------------
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: MatDestroy() line 766 in src/mat/interface/matrix.c
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: PCDestroy() line 88 in src/ksp/pc/interface/precon.c
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: KSPDestroy() line 647 in src/ksp/ksp/interface/itfun.c
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: SNESDestroy() line 1378 in src/snes/interface/snes.c
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: PetscObjectDestroy() line 172 in src/sys/objects/destroy.c
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: DMMGDestroy() line 220 in src/snes/utils/damg.c
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: main() line 55 in oreggt.c
>> application called MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD,62) - process 0[unset]:  
>>  aborting job:
>> application called MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD,62) - process 0
>>
>>



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(Rebecca) Xuefei YUAN
Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Columbia University
Tel:917-399-8032
www.columbia.edu/~xy2102