AMBER Archive (2005)

Subject: RE: AMBER: Amber: sander error segmentation fault.

From: Ross Walker (ross_at_rosswalker.co.uk)
Date: Sat Feb 19 2005 - 00:34:22 CST


Dear Sundar,

> when i ran a sander for minimization it give error as follows.
> segmentation fault,core dumped.i don't know what it mean. but when i

The segmentation fault is due to some kind of division by zero. Note the
output:

   NSTEP ENERGY RMS GMAX NAME NUMBER
      1 6.1081E+08 1.3472E+07 2.4186E+08 O 457

 BOND = 961.4863 ANGLE = 28071.2413 DIHED =
1686.1436
 VDWAALS = ************* EEL = -22338.6619 HBOND =
0.0000
 1-4 VDW = ************* 1-4 EEL = 5974.0453 CONSTRAINT =
0.0000

The ****'s mean that the value was too big to fit in the space provided.
Hence you vdwaals and 1-4VDW energies are huge if not infinite. This
indicates that there is something wrong with your initial structure. You
probably have two atoms sitting either very close or on top of each other.
Try using the check function in xleap or alternatively create a pdb from
your prmtop and inpcrd file using ambpdb and then inspect it manually in
something like vmd.

All the best
Ross

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