[R-sig-ME] Error message when handling complete separation

[C. AMAL D. GLELE]

Hi, all.
When trying to handle a complete separation case
( initialmodel<-glmer(resp~treatment+(1|net),family=binomial,data=mydata) ,
where: treatment is a factor with 4 levels; net has 4 levels;
resp<-cbind(,)
Warning message:
unable to evaluate scaled gradient Hessian is numerically singular:
parameters are not uniquely determined
Outputs: huge estimates, huges sderror and p-value=1 everywhere
)
to solve this, I tried the following fit;
mod2kisBW_unsep1<-
bglmer(respkisBW~treatment+(1|net),data=conedata1kisBW,family=binomial,fixef.prior
= normal(cov=diag(9,4)))
but, I get the error message below:

Error in length(value <- as.numeric(value)) == 1L :
  pwrssUpdate did not converge in (maxit) iterations

1) what are the possible causes of such a problem?
2) how can I figure it out?
Thanks, in advance.
Regards,

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