thanks Doug. 
just tried, but I still got no clusters. 

below is the output of perm.abs.2.sig.cluster.summary. 



# CreationTime 2013/06/05-18:52:23-GMT
# cmdline mri_surfcluster --in GLM/osgm/sig.mgh --csd GLM/csd/perm.abs.2.j001-osgm.csd --mask GLM/mask.mgh --cwsig GLM/osgm/perm.abs.2.sig.cluster.mgh --vwsig GLM/osgm/perm.abs.2.sig.voxel.mgh --sum GLM/osgm/perm.abs.2.sig.cluster.summary --ocn GLM/osgm/perm.abs.2.sig.ocn.mgh --oannot GLM/osgm/perm.abs.2.sig.ocn.annot --annot aparc --csdpdf GLM/osgm/perm.abs.2.pdf.dat --cwpvalthresh .05 --o GLM/osgm/perm.abs.2.sig.masked.mgh --no-fixmni --surf white 
# cwd /glen/2D/results/LH
# sysname  Linux
# hostname rage.uphs.upenn.edu
# machine  x86_64
# FixVertexAreaFlag 1
# FixSurfClusterArea 1
# Input      GLM/osgm/sig.mgh
# Frame Number      0
# srcsubj fsaverage_sym
# hemi lh
# surface white
# annot aparc
# SUBJECTS_DIR /derek/freesurfer5-1/subjects
# SearchSpace_mm2 59961.4
# SearchSpace_vtx 82070
# Bonferroni 0
# Minimum Threshold 2
# Maximum Threshold infinity
# Threshold Sign    abs
# AdjustThreshWhenOneTail 1
# CW PValue Threshold: 0.05 
# Area Threshold    0 mm^2
# CSD thresh  2.000000
# CSD nreps    20000
# CSD simtype  perm
# CSD contrast osgm
# CSD confint  90.000000
# Overall max 3.495 at vertex 61659
# Overall min -4.18843 at vertex 73402
# NClusters          0
# Total Cortical Surface Area 59961.4 (mm^2)
# FixMNI = 0
# ClusterNo  Max   VtxMax   Size(mm^2)  MNIX   MNIY   MNIZ    CWP    CWPLow    CWPHi   NVtxs   Annot







On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Douglas N Greve <greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:
try

mri_glmfit-sim --glmdir GLM --no-sim perm.abs.2

doug

On 06/05/2013 02:26 PM, Glen Lee wrote:





On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Douglas N Greve <greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <mailto:greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>> wrote:

    what was your original mri_glmfit-sim command?

        mri_glmfit-sim --glmdir GLM --sim perm 20000 2 perm.abs.2
         --sim-sign abs --overwrite


    Then, I tried no-sim on the generated csd file with the following
    command:

     mri_glmfit-sim --cwpvalthresh 0.99 --glmdir GLM --no-sim
    --overwrite /csd/perm.abs.2.j001-osgm.csd


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