[agrahn]

Hi,

After having successfully compiled OpenFOAM-1.4.1 on a Gentoo box, I am trying to get started by going through the first tutorial `lid driven cavity'.

In section 2.1.2 it is suggested to have a look at the mesh, running paraFoam. Unfortunately paraFoam crashes (see below).

What now? Help is greatly appreciated.

Alexander
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grahn@fwss41:~/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.4.1 $ paraFoam $FOAM_RUN/tutorials/icoFoam cavity
ErrorMessage
# Error or warning: ERROR: In /home/dm2/henry/OpenFOAM/linuxSrc/paraview-2.4.4/Utilities/VTKClientServer/vtkCl ientServerInterpreter.cxx, line 866
vtkClientServerInterpreter (0x80664b8): Cannot find module "libPVFoamReader.so". The following paths were searched:
/home/grahn/OpenFOAM/linux/paraview-2.4.4/lib/paraview-2.4
/home/grahn/OpenFOAM/linux/paraview-2.4.4/lib
/home/grahn/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.4.1/lib/linuxGccDPOpt/openmpi-1.2.3
/home/grahn/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.4.1/src/openmpi-1.2.3/platforms/linuxGccDPOpt/li b
/home/grahn/OpenFOAM/grahn-1.4.1/lib/linuxGccDPOpt
/home/grahn/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.4.1/lib/linuxGccDPOpt
/home/grahn/OpenFOAM/linux/paraview-2.4.4/bin
/home/grahn/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.4.1/src/openmpi-1.2.3/platforms/linuxGccDPOpt/bi n
/home/grahn/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.4.1/src/mico-2.3.12/platforms/linuxGccDPOpt/bin
/home/grahn/.gentoo/java-config-2/current-user-vm/bin
/home/grahn/OpenFOAM/grahn-1.4.1/applications/bin/linuxGccDPOpt
/home/grahn/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.4.1/applications/bin/linuxGccDPOpt
/home/grahn/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.4.1/wmake
/home/grahn/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.4.1/bin
/home/grahn/bin
/usr/local/bin
.
/usr/kde/3.5/bin
/usr/bin
/bin
/opt/bin
/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.2
/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/bin
/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/jre/bin
/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/jre/javaws
/usr/qt/3/bin
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/vtk
/usr/local/lib
/usr/local/lib/vtk



ERROR: In /home/dm2/henry/OpenFOAM/linuxSrc/paraview-2.4.4/GUI/Client/vtkPVXMLPackageParse r.cxx, line 678
vtkPVXMLPackageParser (0x8957870): Error loading Library component PVFoamReader



ErrorMessage end
ErrorMessage
# Error or warning: There was a VTK Error in file: /home/dm2/henry/OpenFOAM/linuxSrc/paraview-2.4.4/GUI/Client/vtkPVWindow.cxx (2366)
vtkPVWindow (0x825a5f8): Cannot read file information when no reader is specified. This probably means that the reader for the file with name: /home/grahn/OpenFOAM/grahn-1.4.1/run/tutorials/icoFoam/cavity/cavity.foam cannot be found
ErrorMessage end
ErrorMessage
# Error or warning: There was a VTK Error in file: /home/dm2/henry/OpenFOAM/linuxSrc/paraview-2.4.4/GUI/Widgets/vtkKWApplication.cx x (1335)
vtkPVApplication (0x80d4c10):
Script:
paraFoam.pvs
Returned Error on line 11:
invalid command name ""
ErrorMessage end

[jaswi]

Hi Alexander

Please search the forum under the section installation or with your error message and you will find a large number of posts discussing why this happens and what you can do to solve the problem.

Search for Håkan Nilsson's phd course on google. He has somt tips on how to successfully install paraFoam/paraview

Hope that Helps
Jaswi

[musahossein]

When I start paraFoam and hit the accept button to load the mesh for cavity.foam, I get the following error. Any suggestions / advice how to fix tis would be appreciated.

musa@linux:~> paraFoam $FOAM_RUN/tutorials/icoFoam cavity


--> FOAM FATAL IO ERROR : attempt to read beyond EOF

file: /home/musa/OpenFOAM/musa-1.4.1/run/tutorials/icoFoam/cavity/0/U::internalField at line 30.

From function ITstream::read(token& t)
in file db/IOstreams/Tstreams/ITread.C at line 70.

FOAM exiting

[musahossein]

I solved the problem (for always I hope) by reloading the tutorials. It appears to works now.