Re: [ccp4bb] SORTMTZ error status = 256

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Subject: Re: SORTMTZ error status = 256
From: Eleanor Dodson ccp4 {- at -} YSBL {- dot -} YORK {- dot -} AC {- dot -} UK
Date: 2007-11-13

Can you attach the input file to sortmtz - the error is cryptic! I
suspect the input file is corrupted somehow, but it needs testing.

eleanor

hari jayaram wrote:
> Hi ,
> I have a low resolution dataset at 3.2 to 3.5 $B"r(B resolution , upon running
> scala I get the following rather cryptic error
>
> SORTMTZ detected error on obtaining record from sort procedure in return
> phase, status = 256
>
> I am slightly unsure of the spacegroup and have been trying to process and
> scale
> the mtz file from mosflm in the various possibilities.
>
> I get the error when I try to process this dataset with the other
> possibilities from mosflm ( P3 and weirdly enough C222).
> Is this telling me something about my data or is it a bug. Googling revealed
> only one unanswered post right here on ccp4bb
>
>
> The same set of images when processed as P1 give an rmerge of around 0.13 to
> 3.2 A
>
>
>
> Thanks
> hari Jayaram
> postdoc, Brandeis University
>
> The detailed error is given below
>
>

Header Information For Output MTZ File


>  SORTMTZ detected error on obtaining record from sort procedure in return
> phase, status =  256
>
>  SORTMTZ:  Sorting failed
> Times: User:       5.5s System:    0.3s Elapsed:     0:11
>

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>
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