What is this error: gsl: ./init_source.c:29: ERROR: vector length n must be positive integer?

[Bradley S. Meyer]

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Dear sir,
When I ran the commands below in ./network on my mac
./run_single_zone ../../data_pub/my_net.xml ../../data_pub/zone.xml my_output.xml "[z <= 10]"
I got the error below:
gsl: ./init_source.c:29: ERROR: vector length n must be positive integer
Default GSL error handler invoked.
Abort trap: 6
How can I correct it?

[Bradley S. Meyer]

Thanks for your post. It looks like your input data may not be correct--in particular, the partition function data may be corrupted. Try validating from the examples/network directory by typing:

xmllint --schema http://libnucnet.sourceforge.net/xsd_pub/2014-12-13/libnucnet__net.xsd --noout --xinclude ../../data_pub/my_net.xml

which should return

../../data_pub/my_net.xml validates

Otherwise the validator will print the appropriate error message--you should then correct the data accordingly. You may also want to validate the zone data:

xmllint --schema http://libnucnet.sourceforge.net/xsd_pub/2014-12-13/zone_data.xsd --noout --xinclude ../../data_pub/zone.xml

That should return

../../data_pub/zone.xml validates

These are useful steps in general to check on the input data. One might also be interested in the blog posts:

https://sourceforge.net/u/mbradle/blog/2012/07/updating-and-validating-network-nuclear-data/

and

https://sourceforge.net/u/mbradle/blog/2013/02/updating-and-validating-network-reaction-data/