[Wien] lapw2para crashing

[L. D. Marks]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Peter Blaha wrote:

> > If I batch (at command) a parallel job using one of my nodes as the prime
> > lapw2para is crashing, failing on the first testerror (about line 199),
> > the one after the "FERMI" section. However, if I run it online or in the
> > background (&) it works fine. Any suggestions?
>
> Do you have a non-zero error file afterwards ? (lse)
	Yes, it contains
**  Error in Parallel LAPW2
**  testerror: Error in Parallel LAPW2
	Adding a "time" command before the $exe gives
	0.000u 0.000s 0:00.00 0.0%      0+0k 0+0io 26pf+0w
so it looks as if lapw2 is not starting. There are no case.output2* files.
>
> If not, most likely some delay with NFS occurs and at the time of the test
> the slow NFS system tells that the error file is not empty, while a few
> seconds later it is.
>
> try to put a    ls -als *error
> and             sleep $sleepy
> with a suitable sleepy before  this testerror.
>
>                                       P.Blaha
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