You can run PETSc with the option -no_signal_handler and it will not catch these errors.
Barry On Aug 26, 2014, at 1:33 AM, Nicola Creati <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > I'm writing a large application in Python that uses petsc4py to solve some > equations. Running my code I note that PETSc detects errors in sections (I > believe in Cython extensions and packages) where petsc4py is not imported or > used. I do not need to fix the problem, I already did it. Is there a way to > avoid petsc4py/PETSc to catch errors in not PETSc sections of the code? > This is an example of the error message I got: > > [0]PETSC ERROR: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [0]PETSC ERROR: Caught signal number 11 SEGV: Segmentation Violation, > probably memory access out of range > [0]PETSC ERROR: Try option -start_in_debugger or -on_error_attach_debugger > [0]PETSC ERROR: or see > http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/faq.html#valgrind[0]PETSC ERROR: > or try http://valgrind.org on GNU/linux and Apple Mac OS X to find memory > corruption errors > [0]PETSC ERROR: likely location of problem given in stack below > [0]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Stack Frames > ------------------------------------ > [0]PETSC ERROR: Note: The EXACT line numbers in the stack are not available, > [0]PETSC ERROR: INSTEAD the line number of the start of the function > [0]PETSC ERROR: is given. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > mpiexec noticed that process rank 0 with PID 25694 on node daisy exited on > signal 11 (Segmentation fault). > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > I'm using Python 2.7.6, petsc4py 3.4 and PETSc 3.4.3. > > Thanks. > > Nicola > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > Nicola Creati > Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS > IRI (Ricerca Teconologica e Infrastrutture) Department > B.go Grotta Gigante - Brisciki 42/c > 34010 Sgonico - Zgonik (TS) - Italy > Tel. +39-0402140213 > Fax +39-040327307 >
