Can you switch to petsc-dev?
Quite few bugs have been fixed in petsc-dev and superlu_dist since petsc-3.1.
You may try '-mat_superlu_dist_equil no -mat_superlu_dist_colperm NATURAL'
first.

Hong

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> Its a patch to petsc - its ?already be the latest patched tarball - 
> petsc-3.1-p8.tar.gz
> [attaching it]
>
> Satish
>
> On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Gabriele Jost wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I am running into a problem when using ?petsc ?3.1 and SuperLU.
>>
>> KSP Object:
>> ? type: preonly
>> ? maximum iterations=5000, initial guess is zero
>> ? tolerances: ?relative=1e-06, absolute=1e-50, divergence=10000
>> ? left preconditioning
>> ? using PRECONDITIONED norm type for convergence test
>> PC Object:
>> ? type: lu
>> ? ? LU: out-of-place factorization
>> ? ? tolerance for zero pivot 1e-12
>> ? ? matrix ordering: natural
>> ? ? factor fill ratio given 0, needed 0
>> ? ? ? Factored matrix follows:
>> ? ? ? ? Matrix Object:
>> ? ? ? ? ? type=mpiaij, rows=13608, cols=13608
>> ? ? ? ? ? package used to perform factorization: superlu_dist
>> ? ? ? ? ? total: nonzeros=0, allocated nonzeros=27216
>> ? ? ? ? ? ? SuperLU_DIST run parameters:
>> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Process grid nprow 8 x npcol 8
>> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Equilibrate matrix TRUE
>> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Matrix input mode 1
>> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Replace tiny pivots TRUE
>> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Use iterative refinement FALSE
>> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Processors in row 8 col partition 8
>> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Row permutation LargeDiag
>> [59]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message 
>> ------------------------------------
>> [60]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Release Version 3.1.0, Patch 5, Mon Sep 27 11:51:54 
>> CDT 2010
>> [62]PETSC ERROR: [53]PETSC ERROR: Unknown column permutation!
>> See docs/changes/index.html for recent updates.
>>
>>
>> I googled around and found that a similar problem had been reported to the 
>> Petsc folks before. The answer was as follows:
>>
>> On Wed, 15 Dec 2010, Satish Balay wrote:
>>
>> > Can you try the attached patch - and see if this goes away?
>> >
>> > patch -Np1 < superlu_dist.patch
>> >
>>
>>
>> Is the patch above included in the SLU that is part of the petsc 3.1 
>> distribution? If not, could we get it?
>>
>> Thanks so much in advance and best regards,
>> Gabriele
>>

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