Actually the files came with the installation files. I tried ex7 and ex14, both giving the same error message while trying to read the associated files.
On 29.06.2011 16:38, Matthew Knepley wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Elias Goldmann > <goldmann at itp.uni-bremen.de>wrote: > >> ** >> Hello, >> >> i just did my first steps with SLEPc working my way through the given >> examples. >> Apperently i encounter the error message below when i try to read from >> binary files. >> If i do understand >> this<http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-users/2009-October/005223.html>correctly, >> this could be related to the combination of 64 bit systems and >> complex binary files. Since i want to solve complex eigenproblems from input >> files im confused that this causes problems. >> > It appears the file is not valid. If you used Matlab to make the binary > file, this will not work > because PETSc can only read real numbers from Matlab. However, valid complex > binary > files are fine (say from SLEPc or PETSc itself). > > I would check the file I am trying to load. > > Matt > > >> Any help available? >> Thanks, >> Elias >> >> >> ./ex7 -f1 /home/egoldmann/elias/bfw62a.petsc -f2 >> /home/egoldmann/elias/bfw62b.petsc >> >> Generalized eigenproblem stored in file. >> >> Reading COMPLEX matrices from binary files... >> [0]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message >> ------------------------------------ >> [0]PETSC ERROR: Read from file failed! >> [0]PETSC ERROR: Read past end of file! >> [0]PETSC ERROR: >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> [0]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Release Version 3.1.0, Patch 8, Thu Mar 17 13:37:48 >> CDT 2011 >> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/changes/index.html for recent updates. >> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/faq.html for hints about trouble shooting. >> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/index.html for manual pages. >> [0]PETSC ERROR: >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> [0]PETSC ERROR: ./ex7 on a linux-gnu named node5 by egoldmann Wed Jun 29 >> 15:54:06 2011 >> [0]PETSC ERROR: Libraries linked from >> /home/egoldmann/petsc-3.1-p8/linux-gnu-c-debug/lib >> [0]PETSC ERROR: Configure run at Wed Jun 29 10:19:42 2011 >> [0]PETSC ERROR: Configure options --with-scalar-type=complex >> --download-blopex >> [0]PETSC ERROR: >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> [0]PETSC ERROR: PetscBinaryRead() line 249 in src/sys/fileio/sysio.c >> [0]PETSC ERROR: MatLoad_SeqAIJ() line 3572 in src/mat/impls/aij/seq/aij.c >> [0]PETSC ERROR: MatLoad() line 124 in src/mat/utils/matio.c >> [0]PETSC ERROR: main() line 64 in ex7.c >> [unset]: aborting job: >> application called MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 66) - process 0 >> >> >
