PETSc: Misc: Questions and Bug Reports

# PETSc

# Questions and Bug Reports

The PETSc maintenance e-mail, petsc-maint@mcs.anl.gov, is intended for users to

- report bugs,
- ask for clarification,
- ask for help in tracking down bugs, and
- request new features within PETSc.

We respond to almost all email the same day and many within the hour. Please do not send maintenance requests to the individual PETSc authors; all e-mail to petsc-maint@mcs.anl.gov is automatically distributed to all of the PETSc authors, so our response time using this address will be fastest.

Before sending a bug report, please consult the FAQ to determine whether a fix or work-around to the problem already exists. Also, see the chapter Hints for Performance Tuning in the PETSc users manual for guidelines on achieving good efficiency within PETSc codes.

### Guidelines for Bug Reports

The more information that you convey about a bug, the easier it will be for us to target the problem. We suggest providing the following information:

- Please do NOT send winmail.dat Microsoft email attachments; we cannot read them.
- Please do NOT stick huge files like configure.log DIRECTLY into the email message; instead, make them attachments.
- If the problem involves installation, send the entire configure.log and make.log as attachments.
- Machine type: (e.g., sun4)
- OS Version: (run `uname -a` to get the version number)
- PETSc Version: (run PETSc program with -v, or look in include/petscversion.h)
- MPI implementation: (e.g., MPICH, LAM, IBM, SGI)
- Compiler: (e.g., Gnu C, Gnu g++, native C)
- Probable PETSc component: (for example, `Mat, Vec, Draw, KSP`, etc.)
- Problem description: Also, please cut and paste error messages from the compiler, program, etc.