I am using DMSetDefaultSection and DMCreateLocalVector to create vectors in my code, but errors are occurring because DMSetDefaultSection destroys old sections. My usage pattern is for each variable call DMSetDefaultSection call DMCreateLocalVector which fails if there is more than one 1 variable that uses the same section since the sections are being destroyed when a new one is set. Is there a reason for this behavior in DMSetDefaultSection (ie can a version of DMSetDefaultSection that does not destroy the old sections be provided)? -- Chris Eldred DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellow Graduate Student, Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University B.S. Applied Computational Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009 [email protected]