Did you   call PetscRandomSetType(rctx,PETSCRAND,ierr);   ?

On Jul 9, 2012, at 10:21 AM, Benjamin Sanderse wrote:

> So I updated to 3.3, but still get the same error:
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> [0]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message 
> ------------------------------------
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Object is in wrong state!
> [0]PETSC ERROR: PetscRandom object's type is not set: Argument # 1!
> [0]PETSC ERROR: 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Release Version 3.3.0, Patch 1, Fri Jun 15 09:30:49 CDT 
> 2012 
> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/changes/index.html for recent updates.
> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/faq.html for hints about trouble shooting.
> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/index.html for manual pages.
> [0]PETSC ERROR: 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [0]PETSC ERROR: bin/navier-stokes on a arch-linu named slippy.sen.cwi.nl by 
> sanderse Mon Jul  9 17:18:39 2012
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Libraries linked from 
> /export/scratch1/sanderse/software/petsc-3.3-p1_debug/arch-linux2-c-opt/lib
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Configure run at Mon Jul  9 16:58:35 2012
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Configure options --download-mpich=1 --with-shared-libraries 
> --download-f-blas-lapack=1 --with-fc=gfortran --with-cxx=g++ --download-hypre 
> --with-hdf5 --download-hdf5 --with-cc=gcc
> [0]PETSC ERROR: 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [0]PETSC ERROR: PetscRandomSeed() line 431 in 
> /export/scratch1/sanderse/software/petsc-3.3-p1_debug/src/sys/random/interface/randomc.c
> application called MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 73) - process 0
> [cli_0]: aborting job:
> application called MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 73) - process 0
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Barry Smith" <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov>
> To: "PETSc users list" <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov>
> Sent: Monday, July 9, 2012 4:08:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [petsc-users] random vector
> 
> 
>   Please update to using petsc-3.3
> 
> On Jul 9, 2012, at 9:03 AM, Benjamin Sanderse wrote:
> 
>> Thanks a lot. I need to have the PetscRandomCreate inside the loop,
> 
>    Why?
> 
>> so I will use the RandomSetSeed. 
>> However, when running the code below I get the following error.
>> 
>>           PetscRandom    :: rctx
>> 
>>           call PetscRandomCreate(PETSC_COMM_WORLD,rctx,ierr); CHKERRQ(ierr)
> 
>    call PetscRandomSetType(rctx,PETSCRAND,ierr);
> 
>>           call PetscRandomSetSeed(rctx,I,ierr); CHKERRQ(ierr)
>>           call PetscRandomSeed(rctx,ierr); CHKERRQ(ierr)
>>           call VecSetRandom(f,rctx,ierr); CHKERRQ(ierr)
>>           call PetscRandomDestroy(rctx,ierr); CHKERRQ(ierr)
>> 
>> In PetscRandomSetSeed, I is an integer.
>> 
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message 
>> ------------------------------------
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Object is in wrong state!
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: PetscRandom object's type is not set: Argument # 1!
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: 
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Release Version 3.2.0, Patch 6, Wed Jan 11 09:28:45 
>> CST 2012 
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/changes/index.html for recent updates.
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/faq.html for hints about trouble shooting.
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/index.html for manual pages.
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: 
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: bin/navier-stokes on a arch-linu named slippy.sen.cwi.nl by 
>> sanderse Mon Jul  9 15:58:16 2012
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Libraries linked from 
>> /export/scratch1/sanderse/software/petsc-3.2-p6-debug/arch-linux2-c-opt/lib
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Configure run at Wed Feb 22 18:04:02 2012
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Configure options --download-mpich=1 --with-shared-libraries 
>> --download-f-blas-lapack=1 --with-fc=gfortran --with-cxx=g++ 
>> --download-hypre --with-hdf5 --download-hdf5 --with-cc=gcc
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: 
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: PetscRandomSeed() line 431 in 
>> /export/scratch1/sanderse/software/petsc-3.2-p6-debug/src/sys/random/interface/randomc.c
>> application called MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 73) - process 0
>> [cli_0]: aborting job:
>> application called MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 73) - process 0
>> 
>> 
>> Maybe something has changed from 3.2p6 to 3.3? I do not see what is wrong 
>> with the PetscRandom object.
>> 
>> Benjamin
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Barry Smith" <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov>
>> To: "PETSc users list" <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov>
>> Sent: Monday, July 9, 2012 3:51:18 PM
>> Subject: Re: [petsc-users] random vector
>> 
>> 
>>  Create and destroy the random context OUTSIDE of the loop. Each time you 
>> create it it is using the same seed hence giving the same values.
>> 
>>  Note that it is also intentional that if you run the code twice you get the 
>> same values each time you run it to help write and debug codes. If you want 
>> different values each time you run it you need to call PetscRandomSetSeed() 
>> then PetscRandomSeed() after creating the context
>> 
>> 
>>  Barry
>> 
>> On Jul 9, 2012, at 7:53 AM, Benjamin Sanderse wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello all,
>>> 
>>> I am trying to solve a Poisson equation several times with random 
>>> right-hand side vectors in order to do parallel scalability tests.
>>> Here is part of the code that I use to generate a random vector:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> PetscRandom    :: rctx
>>> 
>>> ...
>>> 
>>> do I = 1,n
>>> 
>>> 
>>> call PetscRandomCreate(PETSC_COMM_WORLD,rctx,ierr); CHKERRQ(ierr)
>>> call VecSetRandom(f,rctx,ierr); CHKERRQ(ierr)
>>> call PetscRandomDestroy(rctx,ierr); CHKERRQ(ierr)
>>> 
>>> call VecView(f,PETSC_VIEWER_STDOUT_WORLD,ierr); CHKERRQ(ierr)
>>> 
>>> call Poisson
>>> 
>>> end do
>>> 
>>> 
>>> It appears that f does not change during the execution of the do-loop. In 
>>> fact its value is even always the same for I=1 when I run the code several 
>>> times. Apparently I am missing something. Can anybody help?
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Benjamin
>> 
> 

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