[Wien] warning during initialization

Yundi Quan quan at ms.physics.ucdavis.edu
Mon Nov 21 10:29:33 CET 2011


Thanks quite a lot. I have been puzzled by this for quite a long time. I
feel much relieved.


Yundi

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Peter Blaha
<pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at>wrote:

> 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 <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<L-marks at northwestern.edu>>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>        This looks like a bug in your system, see
>>        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/**show_bug.cgi?id=478999<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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