[FLASH-USERS] FLASH 3 hdf5 file format and Visit

Randy Hudson hudson at mcs.anl.gov
Tue Mar 11 16:46:14 EDT 2008


Daniel,

Do you know if you already had a "~/.visit" directory before you  
built the new plugin?

If so, did it contain a "config" file?

If so, either move or delete it and restart visit.


On Mar 11, 2008, at 3:30 PM, Daniel Pfenniger wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Has anyone also problem while reading the new hdf5 format in VisIt?
> I use VisIt 1.8.0 on Opteron RedHat 5.1 computers and both for the
> old and the new plugin the Visit message after trying to read hdf5
> files is:
>
> ---------------------
> Error!
>
> VisIt was unable to open "/home/user1/FLASH3.0/model1_hdf5_chk_*  
> database".  Each attempt to open it caused VisIt's metadata server  
> to crash.  This can occur when the file is corrupted, or when the  
> underlying file format has changed and VisIt's readers have not  
> been updated yet, or when the reader VisIt is using for your file  
> format is not robust.  Please check whether the file is corrupted  
> and, if not, contact a VisIt developer.
>
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>
>
>
> 	Daniel
>

Randy.






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