On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 3:57 AM, Jonathan Wong <[email protected]>wrote:

> I'm running into an issue for a symmetric (may not be pd) finite element
> problem where I am using the cg method and getting an indefinite_mat or
> indefinite_pc error using the jacobi preconditioner. If I change the pc
> type to bjacobi, it converges nicely. I am only using 1 process, and I
> assumed they would produce the same result, as I'm using default options.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas why this would happen?
>

No, Block-Jacobi and Jacobi are completely different. If you are not
positive definite, you should be using MINRES.

   Matt


> It also works fine with gmres + jacobi pc.
>
> Thanks,
> Jon
>



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