[petsc-users] upgrading to 3.22.4

[Satish Balay]

On Fri, 21 Mar 2025, Sanjay Govindjee via petsc-users wrote:

> Thanks.  I will give that a try.  To be clear, I should do
>  >  > git checkout origin/main
>  >  > make all
>  >  > make check
> Or do I also need to run my (long) .\configure before the make all?

I would start a clean build from a clean repo.

Satish

> -sanjay
> 
> 
> On 3/21/25 7:17 AM, Barry Smith wrote:
> >
> >     I have just pushed a major update to the Fortran interface to the main
> > PETSc git branch. Could you please try to work with main (to become release
> > in a couple of weeks) with your Fortran code as we debug the problem? This
> > will save you a lot of work and hopefully make the debugging more
> > straightforward.
> >
> >     You can send the same output with the debugger if it crashes in the main
> > branch and I can try to track down what is going wrong.
> >
> >   Barry
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Mar 21, 2025, at 12:37 AM, Sanjay Govindjee via petsc-users
> >> <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> >>
> >> I am trying to upgrade my code to PETSc 3.22.4 (the code was last updated
> >> to 3.19.4 or perhaps 3.18.1, I've lost track). I've been using this code
> >> with PETSc for over 20 years.
> >>
> >> To get my code to compile and link during this update, I only need to make
> >> two changes; one was to use PetscViewerPushFormat instead of
> >> PetscViewerSetFormat and the other was to use PETSC_NULL_INTEGER_ARRAY in a
> >> spot or two.
> >>
> >> When I run the code however, I am getting an error very early on during a
> >> call to MatCreate near the beginning of the code.  The screen output says:
> >>
> >>     [3]PETSC ERROR: matcreate_() at
> >>     /Users/sg/petsc-3.22.4/gnug/src/mat/utils/ftn-auto/gcreatef.c:101
> >>     Cannot create PETSC_NULL_XXX object
> >>     [0]PETSC ERROR: matcreate_() at
> >>     /Users/sg/petsc-3.22.4/gnug/src/mat/utils/ftn-auto/gcreatef.c:101
> >>     Cannot create PETSC_NULL_XXX object
> >>     [1]PETSC ERROR: matcreate_() at
> >>     /Users/sg/petsc-3.22.4/gnug/src/mat/utils/ftn-auto/gcreatef.c:101
> >>     Cannot create PETSC_NULL_XXX object
> >>     [2]PETSC ERROR: matcreate_() at
> >>     /Users/sg/petsc-3.22.4/gnug/src/mat/utils/ftn-auto/gcreatef.c:101
> >>     Cannot create PETSC_NULL_XXX object
> >>
> >> I have a 4 processor run going.  I am running with
> >> -on_error_attach_debugger but the debugger is giving me cryptic (at least
> >> to me) output (the same for all 4 processes modulo the PID).  Stack traces
> >> seem to be unavailable :(
> >>
> >>     lldb  -p 71963
> >>     (lldb) process attach --pid 71963
> >>     Process 71963 stopped
> >>     * thread #1, queue = 'com.apple.main-thread', stop reason =
> >>     signal SIGSTOP
> >>         frame #0: 0x00007fff69d92746
> >>     libsystem_kernel.dylib`__semwait_signal + 10
> >>     libsystem_kernel.dylib`__semwait_signal:
> >>     ->  0x7fff69d92746 <+10>: jae 0x7fff69d92750            ; <+20>
> >>         0x7fff69d92748 <+12>: movq   %rax, %rdi
> >>         0x7fff69d9274b <+15>: jmp 0x7fff69d9121d            ; cerror
> >>         0x7fff69d92750 <+20>: retq
> >>     Target 0: (feap) stopped.
> >>
> >>     Executable module set to "/Users/sg/Feap/ver87/parfeap/feap".
> >>     Architecture set to: x86_64h-apple-macosx-.
> >>
> >> Does anyone have any hints as to what may be going on?  Note the program
> >> starts normally and i can do stuff with the interactive interface for the
> >> code -- even plotting the mesh etc. so I believe the input data has been
> >> read in correctly.  The crash only occurs when I initiate the formation of
> >> the matrix.
> >>
> >> I am attaching the
> >> /Users/sg/petsc-3.22.4/gnug/src/mat/utils/ftn-auto/gcreatef.c file in case
> >> that offers some insight.
> >>
> >> Note, I have been
> >> -sanjay
> >> -- 
> >> <gcreatef.c>
> >
> 
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