On Sep 5, 2013, at 3:29 PM, Satish Balay <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
No, we have been running small problems, for debugging, and small problems to not trigger this bug. > > 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 >>> >> >> >
