ABINIT-6.12.3 strange output behavior

vahid · Post by **vahid** » Mon Aug 06, 2012 7:50 pm

Dear All,

I have compiled ABINIT-6.12.3 using gcc-4.4.3 and openmpi-1.6. There was no compilation error. However, when I run it on tmoldyn_01, in the output log file I get 1) strange characters scattered around such as "?" , "0", "^@", and "^P" and 2) many of the lines (cartesian and reduced coordinates) are jammed together as if the line breaks are missing. I am attaching my config.log file and part of the output.log file from the tmoldyn run which shows this strange behavior.
If anyone knows what might cause these, please let me know.

Thanks,
Vahid

Post by **pouillon** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 3:30 pm

Doing the following before building and running Abinit might help:

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unset LC_COLLATE LC_CTYPE LC_MESSAGES LC_MONETARY LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME
LANG=C
LC_ALL=C
export LANG LC_ALL

vahid · Post by **vahid** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 8:26 pm

Hi Yann,

I did as you suggested. The abinit run crashed with the following message:

STOP MPIFAKE

So I recompiled the openmpi and abinit using the locale you suggested. There were no errors this time but I have more of those weird characters (now many are highlighted) in the output and the lines are still jammed together. I'll try to see if a different gcc might work.

Thanks,
Vahid

Post by **pouillon** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 11:16 am

vahid wrote:I'll try to see if a different gcc might work.

It could indeed be the locale of GCC or the one of the GLIBC. Thank you for keeping us posted.

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