[lammps-users] dihedral problem

Dear all,
I am applying strain to my system by fix uniaxial command. I am deforming my box size and then relaxing the system repeatedly. While doing this I ran into a dihedral problem. Below is the error message I receive

Dihedral problem: 5 750002 13360 13359 13362 13363
1st atom: 5 nan nan nan
2nd atom: 5 nan nan nan
3rd atom: 5 nan nan nan
4th atom: 5 nan nan nan
Dihedral problem: 5 750002 13360 13359 13362 13364
1st atom: 5 nan nan nan
2nd atom: 5 nan nan nan
3rd atom: 5 nan nan nan
4th atom: 5 nan nan nan
Dihedral problem: 5 750002 13360 13359 13362 13365
1st atom: 5 nan nan nan
2nd atom: 5 nan nan nan
3rd atom: 5 nan nan nan
4th atom: 5 nan nan nan

It goes like this. I do not know what the first two numbers are. In my original data file these dihedrals are given as below.

40033 1 13360 13359 13362 13363
40034 1 13360 13359 13362 13364
40035 2 13360 13359 13362 13365

I ran this job on 8 processors but I did not define any partition. This job starts from a restart file which also ran on 8 processor on the same machine. I did not have such problem in my pre-relaxations. Did anyone had this problem?

Another issue is that restart2data tool does not recognize the atom_style molecular therefore I am not able to read the restart file. Does anyone have binary file convertor for this style?

Best regards,
Burcu

In the error message, the 2nd value is the timestep. The problem
is likely that the uniaxial strain is causing atom positions to
blow up and thus foul up the dihedral computation. You should
try to figure out why you are getting NANs for the atom coords.

I'm releasing a new restart2data.cpp (probably today) that
fixes a couple issues, including reading "molecular" styles.

Steve