[Mesa-users] Terminated evolution of F type star

[Kira McCracken]

Hello Jared!

I will look through each of those links and do a more rigorous check
through to see what happened. Thank you so much!

Sincerely,
Kira

On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM Jared Goldberg <
jgoldberg at flatironinstitute.org> wrote:

> Hi Kira,
>
> This is the standard "the code crashed" error. The next step is figuring
> out what is setting your timestep and what is causing the crashes.
> There are lots of suggestions for debugging here:
> https://docs.mesastar.org/en/latest/developing/debugging.html
>
> If it's a hydro problem, there's good info (albeit somewhat out of date
> with MESA revisions) here: https://billwolf.space/projects/mesa_debugging/
>
> We also tend to ask for more information to help debug:
> https://docs.mesastar.org/en/latest/installation.html#post-a-question-to-mesa-users
>
> The more information you can give us to describe the problem, and the more
> output you give the better. What's setting the timesteps? What happens in
> the star to cause the crash? Does something go haywire in any of your
> pgstar output? Etc. The timestep is adaptive, so when it plummets below the
> limit, that tends to indicate that something else is going wrong, a
> residual is too large, and the code attempts to take a smaller timestep in
> order to get the residuals under control.
>
> Best,
> ~Jared
>
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM Kira McCracken via Mesa-users <
> mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I'm relatively new to MESA and I'm trying to evolve a 1.5 MSun star from
>> pre-main sequence to the white dwarf stage.
>> I changed my inlists accordingly, ran MESA, and at around 3.5 Gyr
>> received this error message:
>>
>> I re-ran it, this time using a loaded model from a previous run of the
>> same star, and got the same error. I was wondering how I can troubleshoot
>> this error? I've attached my inlists as well. Thank you!
>> Sincerely, Kira
>>
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