[xcrysden] XCrySDen Digest, Vol 28, Issue 1

Yunpeng Wang yunpengwang85 at gmail.com
Wed May 5 17:31:23 CEST 2010


I have settled this question. That is, to add more "\n" in the data grid. I
think the problem is when xcrysden read one line of the data grid, the
length of one line is limited to shorter than, say, 1000 numbers.

YP


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>   1. Error in plotting 3D scalar field, maybe a bug (Yunpeng Wang)
>   2. Re: [Pw_forum] Error with Xcryden for view input and output
>      of pwscf file (Tone Kokalj)
>   3. Re: [Pw_forum] Error with Xcryden for view input and output
>      of pwscf file (Tone Kokalj)
>   4. Re: [Pw_forum] Error with Xcryden for view input and output
>      of pwscf file (josepht at chips.ncsu.edu)
>   5. Re: Error in plotting 3D scalar field, maybe a bug (Tone Kokalj)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 05:44:40 -0400
> From: Yunpeng Wang <yunpengwang85 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [xcrysden] Error in plotting 3D scalar field, maybe a bug
> To: xcrysden at democritos.it
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> Hello all,
>
> I want to plot a 3D scalar field by XCrySDen. If the number of data-points
> is small (<10), I succeed to plot the scalar field and plot the isovalued
> surfaces. However, if I use larger (>10) value of number of data-points,
> the
> program will crash and gives error message like "child killed: segmentation
> violation".
>
> My xcrysden version is 1.5.21.
> The following is my .xsf file, in which there is only one DATAGRID_3D
> section:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
> BEGIN_BLOCK_DATAGRID_3D
> whatever
>    BEGIN_DATAGRID_3D_this_is_it
>    10 10 10
>    -3 -3 -3
>    6 0 0
>    0 6 0
>    0 0 6
> ...(totally 1000 numbers)
> END_DATAGRID_3D
> END_BLOCK_DATAGRID_3D
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Thanks very much!
>
> --
> Yunpeng Wang
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> Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 10:31:54 +0200
> From: Tone Kokalj <tone.kokalj at ijs.si>
> Subject: Re: [xcrysden] [Pw_forum] Error with Xcryden for view input
>        and output of pwscf file
> To: PWSCF Forum <pw_forum at pwscf.org>
> Cc: xcrysden at democritos.it
> Message-ID: <1273048314.9405.60.camel at walk.ijs.si>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
> On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 11:15 -0400, josepht at chips.ncsu.edu wrote:
> > Instead, the error occurs
> > when any parent directory containing the input file has been given a name
> with
> > spaces.
> >
> > e.g. load attempt of output file located in:
> >
> > /HOME/JT/QE/QUANTUM\ ESPRESSO\
> TESTING/postproc/uroporphyrinogen3/scf1p2r3.out
> >  vs
> >
> /HOME/JT/QE/QUANTUM__ESPRESSO__TESTING/postproc/uroporphyrinogen3/scf1p2r3.out
> >
> > where the first case leads to load failure, and the second is successful.
>  This
> > occurs with the xc-1.5.17-linux_x86-semishared.tar.gz package; untested
> for others.
>
> I believe having a whitespace in directory name is not a very smart idea
> under Unix. It may break many scripts.
>
> Nevertheless I adapted xcrysden script, and now it seems to be able to
> deal with it (at least it works on my computer). You may try it
> yourself. The script is attached to this email, you need to copy it to
> your $XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR.
>
> Regards, Tone
> --
> Anton Kokalj
> J. Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
> (tel: +386-1-477-3523 // fax:+386-1-477-3822)
>
> Please, if possible, avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
> See:  http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 10:41:43 +0200
> From: Tone Kokalj <tone.kokalj at ijs.si>
> Subject: Re: [xcrysden] [Pw_forum] Error with Xcryden for view input
>        and output of pwscf file
> To: PWSCF Forum <pw_forum at pwscf.org>
> Cc: xcrysden at democritos.it
> Message-ID: <1273048903.9405.63.camel at walk.ijs.si>
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> On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 10:31 +0200, Tone Kokalj wrote:
> > I believe having a whitespace in directory name is not a very smart idea
> > under Unix. It may break many scripts.
> >
> > Nevertheless I adapted xcrysden script, and now it seems to be able to
> > deal with it (at least it works on my computer). You may try it
> > yourself. The script is attached to this email, you need to copy it to
> > your $XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR.
>
> Well, actually I just realized that the patch works for XSF files, but
> not for the PWscf files. The latter is too much involved to be adapted
> (and it would become a mass).
>
> Hence may recommendation is: don't use the spaces in the directory
> names.
>
> Regards, Tone
> --
> Anton Kokalj
> J. Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
> (tel: +386-1-477-3523 // fax:+386-1-477-3822)
>
> Please, if possible, avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
> See:  http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
>
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 11:15:47 -0400 (EDT)
> From: josepht at chips.ncsu.edu
> Subject: Re: [xcrysden] [Pw_forum] Error with Xcryden for view input
>        and output of pwscf file
> To: pw_forum at pwscf.org
> Cc: xcrysden at democritos.it
> Message-ID: <58446.152.14.192.32.1272986147.squirrel at chips.ncsu.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
>
> Hello,
>
> I am resurrecting this thread - through spring cleaning, I observed the
> same
> behavior of xcrysden reported last year by Loc Duong Dinh.  The source of
> the error,
> at least for my case, was actually unrelated to the format/content of the
> pwscf
> input/output file one attempts to read into xcrysden.  Instead, the error
> occurs
> when any parent directory containing the input file has been given a name
> with
> spaces.
>
> e.g. load attempt of output file located in:
>
> /HOME/JT/QE/QUANTUM\ ESPRESSO\
> TESTING/postproc/uroporphyrinogen3/scf1p2r3.out
>  vs
>
> /HOME/JT/QE/QUANTUM__ESPRESSO__TESTING/postproc/uroporphyrinogen3/scf1p2r3.out
>
> where the first case leads to load failure, and the second is successful.
>  This
> occurs with the xc-1.5.17-linux_x86-semishared.tar.gz package; untested for
> others.
>
>
> Joe Turnbull
> North Carolina State University
>
>
> On Sun, 2009-02-02 at 16:08 -0800, Tone Kokalj wrote:
> >You will need to provide more info!
> >How did you load the file (i.e. sequence of steps), what is the actual
> file (mail
> it as attachement)? Only then there is a change to help. Regards, Tone
> >--
> >Anton Kokalj
> >J. Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
> >(tel: +386-1-477-3523 // fax:+386-1-477-3822)
> >Please, if possible, avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See:
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
> >On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 18:53 -0800, loc duong ding wrote:
> >> Dear all user,
> >>
> >>I have a problem when using Xcrysden to view input and output file of
> pwscf. The
> error i got was:
> >>wrong # args: should be "pwInputPreset file"
> >>wrong # args: should be "pwInputPreset file"
> >>    while executing
> >>"pwInputPreset /cygdrive/g/Research/MODELLING/output_model2"
> >>    ("eval" body line 1)
> >>    invoked from within
> >>"eval $preset $file"
> >>    (procedure "openExtStruct" line 106)
> >>    invoked from within
> >>"openExtStruct 3 crystal external {sh
> >>/home/cuteo/XCrySDen-1.5.18-bin-shared/scripts/pwi2xsf.sh}
> pwi2xsf.xsf_out {PWSCF
> Input File} ANGS -preset pwInpu..."
> >>    (menu invoke)
> >>
> >>I did not see this error before.
> >>I great appreciate all your instructions.
> >>-----------------------------------------------
> >>Loc Duong Dinh
> >>Ms-Ph.D Student
> >>Sungkyunkwan Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology,
> >>Sungkyunkwan University,
> >>Suwon, 440-746, Korea
> >>Email: mambom1902 at yahoo.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 12:39:52 +0200
> From: Tone Kokalj <tone.kokalj at ijs.si>
> Subject: Re: [xcrysden] Error in plotting 3D scalar field, maybe a bug
> To: XCrySDen mailing list <xcrysden at democritos.it>
> Message-ID: <1273055992.9405.83.camel at walk.ijs.si>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
>
> On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 05:44 -0400, Yunpeng Wang wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I want to plot a 3D scalar field by XCrySDen. If the number of
> > data-points is small (<10), I succeed to plot the scalar field and
> > plot the isovalued surfaces. However, if I use larger (>10) value of
> > number of data-points, the program will crash and gives error message
> > like "child killed: segmentation violation".
> >
> > My xcrysden version is 1.5.21.
> > The following is my .xsf file, in which there is only one DATAGRID_3D
> > section:
>
> To be able to help, please send me the whole XSF file (to my personal
> email).
>
> The number of points > 10 is still a very small number. Xcrysden can
> display datagrids with million points or more ...
>
> Regards, Tone
> --
> Anton Kokalj
> J. Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
> (tel: +386-1-477-3523 // fax:+386-1-477-3822)
>
> Please, if possible, avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
> See:  http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
>
>
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