Re: Fatal error in configuration file

From: BIN ZHANG (zhngbn_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Feb 04 2009 - 22:12:55 CST

You should delete the dot "." after the number.
Somehow this can not be understood by NAMD Binary on mac.

Best,
Bin

On Feb 4, 2009, at 7:05 PM, Corey Fugate wrote:

> I have been going through the NAMD tutorial on my Mac OS 10.5. I
> already posted for help on the Tutorial sight, and the response I
> received suggested that I direct my question to the NAMD-l.
> I'm trying to run the ubq_ws_eq.conf file from the 1-2-sphere
> directory. I receive the following message in the terminal -
>
> ------------- Processor 0 Exiting: Called CmiAbort ------------
> Reason: FATAL ERROR: ERROR(S) IN THE CONFIGURATION FILE
>
> Charm++ fatal error:
> FATAL ERROR: ERROR(S) IN THE CONFIGURATION FILE
>
> Abort trap
>
>
> I have not manipulated the config file. I tried the config in the
> 1-3-box directory and receive the same error. The log file for the
> execution of ubq_ws_eq.conf is below
>
>
> Charm++: standalone mode (not using charmrun)
> Charm++: scheduler running in netpoll mode.
> Info: NAMD 2.6 for MacOSX-i686
> Info:
> Info: Please visit http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/
> Info: and send feedback or bug reports to namd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> Info:
> Info: Please cite Phillips et al., J. Comp. Chem. 26:1781-1802 (2005)
> Info: in all publications reporting results obtained with NAMD.
> Info:
> Info: Based on Charm++/Converse 50900 for net-darwin-x86-smp
> Info: Built Wed Aug 30 12:54:31 CDT 2006 by jim on juneau.ks.uiuc.edu
> Info: 1 NAMD 2.6 MacOSX-i686 1
> dhcp-128-171-32-170.bilger.hawaii.edu Corey
> Info: Running on 1 processors.
> Info: 86012 kB of memory in use.
> Info: Memory usage based on ps
> Info: Configuration file is ubq_ws_eq.conf
> TCL: Suspending until startup complete.
> ERROR: Could not understand units '.' in option 'cutoff = 12.
> ERROR: 'cutoff' was set to 0 but it should be positive
> ERROR: Could not understand units '.' in option 'switchdist = 10.
> ERROR: 'switchdist' was set to 0 but it should be positive
> FATAL ERROR: ERROR(S) IN THE CONFIGURATION FILE
>

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