Dear All,

My system contains water molecules and polyethylene glycol molecules. I generated the box (15.2*15.2*15.2 nm*3) using genbox command. Thereafter, PEG molecules were added using gmx insert-molecules and solvated with gmx solvate.

When I tried to run md, I got the following error.

step 1802: Water molecule starting at atom 93528 can not be settled. Check for bad contacts and/or reduce the timestep if appropriate. Wrote pdb files with previous and current coordinates Segmentation fault (core dumped)

my run.mdp file contains following parameters.

integrator    =  md              dt        =  0.005           nsteps        =  1000000          comm_mode    =  linear ;     nstxout        =  500000          nstlog        =  1000               nstenergy    =  50            nstxtcout    =  10000           ; cutoff-scheme   =  Verlet                      nstlist         =  10                          ns_type         =  grid                       pbc             =  xyz                        rlist           =  1.4                         ; coulombtype     =  PME                          rcoulomb        =  1.4                         epsilon_r       =  1                          rvdw            =  1.4                          fourierspacing  =  0.12                       pme_order       =  4                           ewald_rtol      =  1e-5                       DispCorr        =  EnerPres                    ; Tcoupl        =  v-rescale           tc-grps        =  System            tau_t        =  .1                ref_t        =  298               ; Pcoupl        =  parrinello-rahman        Pcoupltype    =  isotropic           tau_p        =  2.0               compressibility    =  4.5e-5            ref_p        =  1.0               ; gen_vel        =  no               ; constraints    =  all-bonds            constraint_algorithm    =  lincs     lincs_order    =  8               

Can anyone help me to solve the error. The most of the people commented previously that this error is due to a bad starting structure. If it is the reason, how can I correct it.

Thank you.

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