Andrea,

In principle nothing should change, in terms of success in execution
of Siesta from what I can remember. Basis sets and pseudos (as long as
the latter are in psf format) should not pose a problem. From your
error, it seems that the problem could be with your mpi, since it runs
successfuly in serial mode. Have you performed a system update lately?
I think not too long ago someone was having problems like yours and
re-compilation from scratch (mpi, then blacs, then scalapack, then
siesta) was the solution because the libc's had been updated and that
interfered with the mpich libraries. This shouldn't be too difficult
to do since you already compiled it anyway. Unfortunately you don't
provide much information, such as when the error occurs, if the input
is read correctly and so on, so it gets difficult to think of a
possible cause and a less painful solution. :)

If re-compilation from scratch doesn't work, then it is indeed a
Siesta error. In cases like this, a "one-change-at-a-time-search" for
the error is recommendable.

Some things you could try (one at a time):

1) Try re-initializing the DM from scratch, instead of using the old one.
2) Try replacing the MP occupation with Fermi-Dirac smearing. MP
apparently has a bug.
3) Try using a standard DZP basis set just for the sake of testing.
4) Re-generate your pseudo, could it be that your pseudo is somehow
corrupted? Someone was having problems with pseudos from a previous
run and found out there were spurious characters by the end of the
file, some time ago.

Cheers,

Marcos

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 8:56 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I have installed (in a cluster) Siesta 2.0 which runs successfully in
> parallel mode (it was checked for several systems).
>
>  Now I want to take up again a problem that I have studied in the past
> with
>  Siesta 1.3 in serial mode. I am trying to run the same problem now with
> Siesta2.0 but it does not run OK in parallel mode but only in serial one.
>
>  Do I have to change anything in the pseudos & basis generated within
> Siesta 1.3 in serial mode, so as they work OK with Siesta2.0 in parallel?
>
>  The message error is at the end of my message. I also send attached the
> fdf file.
>
>  Thanks in advance,
>
>  Andrea
>
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Error Message:
>> forrtl: severe (174): SIGSEGV, segmentation fault occurred
>> Image              PC                Routine            Line
> Source
>> siesta             000000000045CAF2  Unknown               Unknown
> Unknown
>> siesta             0000000000448ACE  Unknown               Unknown
> Unknown
>> siesta             000000000056515D  Unknown               Unknown
> Unknown
>> siesta             0000000000410002  Unknown               Unknown
> Unknown
>> libc.so.6          0000003C33C1D8B4  Unknown               Unknown
> Unknown
>> siesta             000000000040FF29  Unknown               Unknown
> Unknown
>> forrtl: error (78): process killed (SIGTERM)
>> Image              PC                Routine            Line
> Source
>> libmpich.so.1.0    00002B3CEF46D062  Unknown               Unknown
> Unknown
>> libmpich.so.1.0    00002B3CEF44FEFA  Unknown               Unknown
> Unknown
>> libmpich.so.1.0    00002B3CEF477CB6  Unknown               Unknown
> Unknown
>> libmpich.so.1.0    00002B3CEF461122  Unknown               Unknown
> Unknown
>> siesta             00000000007E116D  Unknown               Unknown
> Unknown
>> siesta             00000000007DF350  Unknown               Unknown
> Unknown
>> siesta             00000000006C451F  Unknown               Unknown
> Unknown
>> siesta             00000000006C58D2  Unknown               Unknown
> Unknown
>> siesta             000000000053D425  Unknown               Unknown
> Unknown
>> siesta             000000000045D081  Unknown               Unknown
> Unknown
>> siesta             0000000000448ACE  Unknown               Unknown
> Unknown
>> siesta             000000000056515D  Unknown               Unknown
> Unknown
>> siesta             0000000000410002  Unknown               Unknown
> Unknown
>> libc.so.6          0000003C33C1D8B4  Unknown               Unknown
> Unknown
>> siesta             000000000040FF29  Unknown               Unknown
> Unknown
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