[FLASH-USERS] ask for some help

Thu Mar 3 09:22:08 EST 2016

Thank you Scott and Jonathan, yes when I run the the ./build_visit it
finish with the same massage than you show me. I have built visit again and
in the filetype list the FLASH option is still missing, thanks anyway for
your time

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 10:51 AM, Scott Feister <sfeister at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ludmila,
>
> Hmm. Well, here's some info for troubleshooting. After I ran the
> build_visit2_10_0 script (took ~3 hrs on my machine), I got the following
> message:
>
> …
>
> All indications are that VisIt successfully built.
>
> Finished building VisIt.
>
> You many now try to run VisIt by cd'ing into the
>
> visit2.10.0/src/bin directory and invoking "visit"
>
> To create a binary distribution tarball from this build, cd to
>
> /home/feister.7/pypkg/visit-par/visit2.10.0/src
>
> then enter: "make package"
>
> This will produce a tarball called visitVERSION.ARCH.tar.gz, where
>
> VERSION is the version number, and ARCH is the OS architecure.
>
> To install the above tarball in a directory called "INSTALL_DIR_PATH"
>
> enter: svn_bin/visit-install VERSION ARCH INSTALL_DIR_PATH
>
> If you run into problems, contact visit-users at ornl.gov.
>
>
> Did you remember if you got this "VisIt successfully built" message? After
> the script finished, VisIt worked without doing *anything *further. I did
> not need to run "make all"; maybe even running "make all" is deleting
> something important?
>
> Scott
>
>
> Scott Feister
> Ph.D. Candidate, Physics
> The Ohio State University
> Research Scientist
> Air Force Research Laboratory
>
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 8:13 AM, Ludmila María Rechiman <
> ludmilarechiman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Scott and Jonathan,
>>                                             thank you for the answer,
>> yes, I have tried what you suggest, the thing is that in the popup menu
>> (filetype list) when I tried to open a FLASH file, it does not show the
>> option FLASH.
>> I do not understand, I followed the standard procedure but FLASH option
>> is not on the list.
>>
>> thank you in advance
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 6:24 PM, Slavin, Jonathan <jslavin at cfa.harvard.edu
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Ludmila,
>>>
>>> I have found that if I just start visit without any parameters and then
>>> open my FLASH generated plot or checkpoint file without specifying the file
>>> type, I get errors.  However, if I select the file I want to open and then
>>> choose FLASH from the filetype list (open file as type), it works.  Have
>>> you tried that?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jon
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 4:02 PM, <flash-users-request at flash.uchicago.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> From: "Ludmila María Rechiman" <ludmilarechiman at gmail.com>
>>>> To: flash-users at flash.uchicago.edu
>>>> Cc:
>>>> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 18:02:14 -0300
>>>> Subject: [FLASH-USERS] ask for some help
>>>> Dear community of flash users,
>>>>                                               i am new using FLASH. I
>>>> have install all the requirements and I was able to run succesfully the
>>>> Sedov problem and the WindTunnel problem in serial and in parallel and
>>>> varying some parameters. The thing is that I also install visit 2.10, and
>>>> it seems to work but the plugin dedicated to read the FLASH data it was not
>>>> installed, then I can not visualize any data.
>>>>
>>>> I have made the following steps:
>>>>
>>>> 1) I have run the script build_visit.sh that I download from (
>>>> http://portal.nersc.gov/project/visit/releases/2.10.0/build_visit2_10_0).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2)In the folder /home/ludmila/visit/visit2.10.0/src  I have run : make
>>>> all . I attach the log file
>>>>
>>>> 3) then in the folder I run :
>>>> /home/ludmila/visit/visit2.10.0/src/bin/./visit -assume_format FLASH
>>>>
>>>> 4)The visit Gui interface open but when I open the results of my
>>>> simulation I get the following error (I attach the .png of the screen):
>>>>
>>>> VisIt could not read from the file
>>>> "/home/ludmila/FLASH4.3/object/sedov_hdf5_chk_* database".
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The generated error message was:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> There was an error opening
>>>> /home/ludmila/FLASH4.3/object/sedov_hdf5_chk_* database. It may be an
>>>> invalid file.
>>>>
>>>> VisIt tried using the following file format readers to open the file:
>>>> <No suitable plugins were identified>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 5) I thoght that if I run:
>>>> /home/ludmila/visit/visit2.10.0/src/databases/cmake .
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> it will compile all the plugins including the FLASH, but I get the
>>>> following error:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> see the last .png
>>>>
>>>> I have been trying several ideas but no one seem to work. I would like
>>>> to ask you if some have some idea of what am I doing wrong of if I am
>>>> missing some thing.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your time
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> ludmila
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> ________________________________________________________
>>> Jonathan D. Slavin                 Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
>>> jslavin at cfa.harvard.edu       60 Garden Street, MS 83
>>> phone: (617) 496-7981       Cambridge, MA 02138-1516
>>> cell: (781) 363-0035             USA
>>> ________________________________________________________
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> ludmila
>>
>
>

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ludmila
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