I've tracked down an apparently infinite looping job in our current production. The tail-end of a run with debug output is left below, where you can see that after step 12 the anti-proton being tracked gets stuck. It's in the forward calorimeter, in a volume called LArMgr::ModeratorTube, which is made of BoratedPolyethelyne, which has a density of 0.99 and a composition of: Boron 0.05 Carbon 0.813 Hydrogen 0.137 I've gotten the thing running locally for a few hours now on the same step, so as usual, I suspect a 'while' without some protection. From the stack, I gather that the thing is getting stuck in G4QEnvironment::FSInteraction() , since I see no loop in G4QEnvironment::Fragment() or G4QCaptureAtRest::AtRestDoIt(...) that makes me too terribly suspicious. But FSInteraction is about 4000 lines long, so I hope you'll forgive me if I'm reluctant to try my usual reading and digging to spot the problem. This is with G4 9.4p1, and it is quite rare (order 1 per 1.5M events). Best, Zach * G4Track Information: Particle = anti_proton, Track ID = 3565283, Parent ID = 3565268 ********************************************************************************************************* Step# X(mm) Y(mm) Z(mm) KinE(MeV) dE(MeV) StepLeng TrackLeng NextVolume ProcName 0 -29 151 -3.71e+03 177 0 0 0 LArMgr::ModeratorTube initStep 1 -32.4 151 -3.74e+03 161 15.4 29.5 29.5 LArMgr::ModeratorTube hadElastic 2 -38.5 147 -3.77e+03 141 19.8 36.2 65.7 LArMgr::ModeratorTube hIoni 3 -43.1 144 -3.8e+03 123 18.2 29.1 94.8 LArMgr::ModeratorTube hIoni 4 -47.1 141 -3.82e+03 107 15.9 23.2 118 LArMgr::ModeratorTube hIoni 5 -50.4 139 -3.84e+03 93.5 13.5 18.5 136 LArMgr::ModeratorTube hIoni 6 -52.8 138 -3.86e+03 81.2 12.3 14.9 151 LArMgr::ModeratorTube hIoni 7 -54.5 136 -3.87e+03 70.3 11 11.9 163 LArMgr::ModeratorTube hIoni 8 -56.1 135 -3.88e+03 60.1 10.2 9.53 173 LArMgr::ModeratorTube hIoni 9 -57.4 135 -3.89e+03 51.1 8.97 7.57 180 LArMgr::ModeratorTube hIoni 10 -58.4 134 -3.89e+03 42.7 8.38 6.04 186 LArMgr::ModeratorTube hIoni 11 -59.4 134 -3.9e+03 35.3 7.47 4.79 191 LArMgr::ModeratorTube hIoni
The CHIPS package is no longer supported and will be dropped in the Geant4 version 10 .