On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, Mark F. Adams wrote: > > On Sep 5, 2013, at 12:46 PM, Satish Balay <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, Satish Balay wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, Mark F. Adams wrote: > > > >>> I wanted to not have files get checked and added -skip_petscrc to > >>> the command line but this was not sufficient. I needed to change > >>> the code to use NULL (or I told my user to do so). > > > > Was 'useroptfile' causing some problem - or is it that you wanted to > > avoid it for some other reason? > > This was the problem with Mira that we went through with Jeff H. last week. > Where getting the home directory was failing occasionally and hanging the > system. So I was told to use -skip_petscrc on the command line, which failed > to get the code to skip the (user) RC file.
But did the code hang or crash? Satish > In looking at the code I realized that you need to not give > PetscInitialize() an RC file name. So we need to change the code slightly > but it took a while to figure that out (e.g., I had to look at the source). > > > > > thanks, > > Satish > > > >
