[Wien] warning during initialization

Peter Blaha pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at
Mon Nov 21 10:08:53 CET 2011


That's not a problem. This is the desired behaviour.

While a program (eg. lapw1) is running, it puts something into lapw1.error and only
when it finishes properly, the content of this file will be removed.

Otherwise I cannot find out if somebody/somthing has kill the lapw1 executable.


Am 21.11.2011 09:43, schrieb Yundi Quan:
> Hi,
>
> Hi, I do my calculation on a cluster. And the queue system is torque. I always submit a job to the cluster and get 24 hours of computation time and 4 nodes with each node 8 cores
> and 8G memory. When WIEN2k is running in parallel, I found error files like dnlapw1_1.error  are not empty.  However, the calculation can run perfectly well and give reasonable
> result. Those error files are automatically cleaned and new error files appear. Has anyone encountered such a problem?
>
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Yundi Quan <quan at ms.physics.ucdavis.edu <mailto:quan at ms.physics.ucdavis.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Hi, Professor Laurence,
>     I used to be using ubuntu. And I never came across any error messages. But when I migrated to the Fedora, I got warning about FontStruct every time when I use init_lapw to
>     initialize my calculation. So I agree that it might be because of my system's fonts.
>
>
>     Yundi
>
>
>     On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 6:02 AM, Laurence Marks <L-marks at northwestern.edu <mailto:L-marks at northwestern.edu>> wrote:
>
>         This looks like a bug in your system, see
>         https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=478999 where you have some
>         sort of problem with the X fonts. I doubt that it will matter for your
>         calculation. You should probably mention this to your sysadmin, or if
>         you are consider installing some OS updates.
>
>         2011/11/19 Yundi Quan <quanyundi at gmail.com <mailto:quanyundi at gmail.com>>:
>          > Hi, I got the following error when initializing through init_lapw command.
>          > Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct
>          >
>          > But when I restart from scratch by using w2web, everything seems to be all
>          > right. Is this warning a serious problem to my calculation?
>          >
>          > Yundi
>          >
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