I don't know what this error is, but you might like to know that the
program Pointless can be used as
an alternative to sortmtz, with the bonus that it might help you
determine the spacegroup
You can get it either from our ftp site here
eg
ftp://ftp.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/pub/pre/pointless-1.2.9.linux
or from the CCP4 prerelease page
http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/prerelease/
Phil
On 13 Nov 2007, at 01:15, hari jayaram wrote:
Hi ,
I have a low resolution dataset at 3.2 to 3.5 Å resolution ,
upon running scala I get the following rather cryptic error
SORTMTZ detected error on obtaining record from sort procedure in
return phase, status = 256
I am slightly unsure of the spacegroup and have been trying to
process and scale
the mtz file from mosflm in the various possibilities.
I get the error when I try to process this dataset with the other
possibilities from mosflm ( P3 and weirdly enough C222).
Is this telling me something about my data or is it a bug. Googling
revealed only one unanswered post right here on ccp4bb
The same set of images when processed as P1 give an rmerge of
around 0.13 to 3.2 A
Thanks
hari Jayaram
postdoc, Brandeis University
The detailed error is given below
<a name="outSORTMTZ"><h3>Header Information For Output MTZ File </
h3></a>
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SORTMTZ detected error on obtaining record from sort procedure in
return phase, status = 256
SORTMTZ: Sorting failed
Times: User: 5.5s System: 0.3s Elapsed: 0:11
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