seed of 0 (zero) fails - Githubissues

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. run a beast file with -seed 0
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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

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            BEAST v1.5 developmental, 2002-2006
       Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis Sampling Trees
                             by
           Alexei J. Drummond and Andrew Rambaut

               Department of Computer Science
                   University of Auckland
                  alexei@cs.auckland.ac.nz

             Institute of Evolutionary Biology
                  University of Edinburgh
                     a.rambaut@ed.ac.uk

Downloads, Help & Resources:
        http://evolve.zoo.ox.ac.uk/beast/

Source code distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License:
        http://code.google.com/p/beast-mcmc/

Additional programming & components created by:
        Roald Forsberg
        Gerton Lunter
        Sidney Markowitz
        Oliver Pybus

Thanks to (for use of their code):
        Korbinian Strimmer

Random number seed: 0

UTF8
Parsing XML file: xrun042.xml
Read alignment, 'alignment000':
  Sequences = 24
      Sites = 1600
   Datatype = nucleotide
Site patterns 'patterns000' created from positions 1-1600 of alignment
'alignment000'
  pattern count = 20
Read alignment, 'alignment001':
  Sequences = 24
      Sites = 1600
   Datatype = nucleotide
Site patterns 'patterns001' created from positions 1-1600 of alignment
'alignment001'
  pattern count = 8
Read alignment, 'alignment002':
  Sequences = 24
      Sites = 1600
   Datatype = nucleotide
Site patterns 'patterns002' created from positions 1-1600 of alignment
'alignment002'
  pattern count = 13
Read alignment, 'alignment003':
  Sequences = 12
      Sites = 1600
   Datatype = nucleotide
Site patterns 'patterns003' created from positions 1-1600 of alignment
'alignment003'
  pattern count = 26
Creating the tree model, 'truetreeModel000'
  initial tree topology =
((((((((l00_tip_003,l00_tip_019),l00_tip_017),l00_tip_011),l00_tip_007),(((l00_t
ip_006,l00_tip_009),(l00_tip_008,l00_tip_016)),(l00_tip_013,l00_tip_020))),(l00_
tip_005,l00_tip_012)),(((l00_tip_001,l00_tip_004),(l00_tip_010,l00_tip_021)),l00
_tip_022)),((((l00_tip_000,l00_tip_015),l00_tip_014),l00_tip_002),(l00_tip_018,l
00_tip_023)))
21/11/2007 17:42:12 dr.app.beastdev.BeastMain <init>
SEVERE: Fatal exception (email the authors)
Fatal exception (email the authors)
java.lang.RuntimeException: failed to merge trees after 1000 tries!
        at
dr.evolution.coalescent.CoalescentSimulator.simulateCoalescent(Unknown Source)
        at dr.evolution.coalescent.CoalescentSimulator.simulateTree(Unknown
Source)
        at dr.evomodel.coalescent.CoalescentSimulator.simulateTree(Unknown
Source)
        at
dr.evomodel.coalescent.CoalescentSimulator$1.parseXMLObject(Unknown Source)
        at dr.xml.AbstractXMLObjectParser.parseXMLObject(Unknown Source)
        at dr.xml.XMLParser.convert(Unknown Source)
        at dr.xml.XMLParser.convert(Unknown Source)
        at dr.xml.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
        at dr.app.beastdev.BeastMain.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at dr.app.beastdev.BeastMain.main(Unknown Source)
Original issue reported on code.google.com by jhe...@gmail.com on 21 Nov 2007 at 4:43
marlichimi / beast-mcmc

seed of 0 (zero) fails #39
