[FLASH-USERS] H5Screate_simple: zero sized dimension

[Mateusz Ruszkowski]

  Hi all,

[apologies if you are getting this message more then once; we had some 
trouble sending the e-mail]

We are getting a runtime error related to hdf5. The crash occurs the 
moment the code is attempting to write the initial conditions. The 
standard output includes the following error messages:

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Initial dt verified
Driver_abortC called
Error: negative return from memspace H5Screate_simple
Calling MPI_Abort for immediate shutdown

and:

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HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 library version 1.6.6-snap21 MPI-process 
0. Back trace follows.
#000: H5S.c line 1595 in H5Screate_simple(): zero sized dimension 
for non-unlimited dimension
major(01): Function arguments
minor(05): Bad value
MPI: On host columbia1, Program 
/u/.realmounts/home7/nieusma/Flash/Planet_IR, Rank 0, Process 8697
1 called MPI_Abort(<communicator>, 1)


A similar error was reported on the FLASH mailing list in the past and a 
suggestion was made that this could be due to (min refinement) > (max 
refinement) in flash.par. We checked the refinement levels and this does 
not appear to be a problem in the above run so the cause of this problem 
is probably different in our case. Did anybody encounter similar issues?


     thanks,
       Mateusz & Justin