[FLASH-USERS] Segfault while Initializing surr_blks

[Klaus Weide]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2017, Joel Long wrote:

> I am a new user just getting setup with FLASH. I am working on macOS
> 10.12.3. I have installed current versions of MPICH, Hypre, hdf5, etc.
> 
> As a starting point, I am trying to run the Sedov explosion problem as
> described in the quick start section of the manual.
.....
> Program received signal SIGSEGV: Segmentation fault - invalid memory
> reference.
> 
> Backtrace for this error:
> #0  0x1048ce579
> #1  0x1048cd945
> #2  0x7fffe09d4bb9
> 
> 
> Can anyone recommend what might be going wrong, or how I should proceed? I
> can recompile with debugging symbols, but I'm doubting the root issue is
> actually a problem in the code, and if it were I wouldn't know how to fix
> it anyway.

Definitely try to compile with debugging, then run in gdb. This should at 
least give you a better idea which part of the code is involved, and 
possibly which library.

Problems are often caused by incompatible libraries, especially if there 
are several versions of a library present in the system.

Klaus