Index: /issm/trunk-jpl/src/c/analyses/dakota_core.cpp
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--- /issm/trunk-jpl/src/c/analyses/dakota_core.cpp	(revision 16126)
+++ /issm/trunk-jpl/src/c/analyses/dakota_core.cpp	(revision 16127)
@@ -177,6 +177,9 @@
 		// Instantiate/initialize the parallel library and problem description
 		// database objects.
-		Dakota::ParallelLibrary parallel_lib("serial"); //use our own ISSM Dakota library mode constructor, which only fires up Dakota on CPU 0. 
+		char* dakotamode=xNew<char>(strlen("serial")+1);
+		xMemCpy<char>(dakotamode,"serial",strlen("serial")+1);
+		Dakota::ParallelLibrary parallel_lib(dakotamode); //use our own ISSM Dakota library mode constructor, which only fires up Dakota on CPU 0. 
 		Dakota::ProblemDescDB problem_db(parallel_lib); 
+		xDelete<char>(dakotamode);
 
 		// Manage input file parsing, output redirection, and restart processing