[Leech]

Hi anyone,

i installed OpenFOAM on my Pc and my Laptop with the great help of this forum.
Now i got a strange Problem.

Today i wanted to start up OpenFoam on my Laptop and tried to run blockMesh.
He gave me the following error:
blockMesh: error while loading shared libraries: libmeshTools.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

After wondering what happened i tried to start up icoFoam or paraview and he gave me the same error messages, except the pointed library changed.

So i tried the same commands on my pc and the same errors occured. This is extremly strange because the hdd with linux on it was disconnected the last time in my pc. So i didn't changed anything.

Maybe a Ubuntu Update changed something with the librarys?


I would be very happy if anyone could help me!

Thanks a lot
Regards
Leech

[wyldckat]

Hi Pierre,

To me it seems that there are only two possible scenarios for what happened to you:

• Scenario 1: your user's ".bashrc" file got corrupted/damaged.
  Open it for edition by running on a terminal the following command:

  gedit $HOME/.bashrc

  Now, do you see the line near the end with:

  . /opt/openfoam171/etc/bashrc

  If not, or if the line is slightly different, then that's the reason.
• Scenario 2: the ".bashrc" file is fine, but the folder "/opt/openfoam171" got mysteriously removed.
  Check if the folder exists or not. For example, run:

  ls -l /opt/openfoam171

  Or:

  du -sh /opt/openfoam171

  The first one should give you the contents of the folder; the second one should give you the amount of disk space occupied by that folder. If neither give you any expected output, then you'll have to install again following the online instructions.

By the way, did you upgrade Ubuntu from 10.04 to 10.10? If you are not sure of it, run this on your terminal window:

cat /etc/lsb-release

I haven't tested Ubuntu 10.10, so I don't know if the official Debian packages for OpenFOAM will work.

Best regards,
Bruno

[Leech]

Hi Bruno,

thanks for your help.
I looked at my bashrc.
It got the lines you mentioned. But with openfoam170.
I changed it to 171 and then the terminal said that there is no such directory.

The other things i cant try out right now, going to work
I'll try it this evening.

Thanks a lot
Pierre

[Leech]

Hi again,

i tried out the rest of your instructions.
The folder exists, but it's again openfoam170.
It got contents and it occupies something over 320mbs of disc space.

So i'm a bit worried. It seems like i installed open 170. But i thought i downloaded OpenFoam 171.

So i will try to install it again.

Thanks
Leech

ps: I'll give a report here, if it worked well

[Leech]

Hi,

i tried to reinstall OpenFoam, but it didn't worked.
I followed the instructions exactly.
At the point "Open a new terminal window and test that the icoFoam application, from the OpenFOAM package, is working by typing icoFoam -help"
the shell answers again:
"pierre@pierre-laptop:~$ icoFoam -help
icoFoam: error while loading shared libraries: libfiniteVolume.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

I am totally out of ideas...
Any suggestions?

Thanks guys
Pierre

[wyldckat]

Hi Pierre,

That's odd... What does this command output:

echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Additionally, is there anything after the OpenFOAM line in "~/.bashrc"?

Best regards,
Bruno

[Leech]

Hi,

you were right. I Had some additional lines in the bashrc.
I didn't thought they would change anything.
I added these lines, to automatically set the environnement variables for netgen:

#Netgen
export NETGENDIR=/opt/netgen/bin
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/Togl1.7:/opt/netgen/lib

Can you tell me if there is a way to add these variables in the bashrc? Because Netgen wont work without em.


Thanks a lot again for your help
Pierre

[wyldckat]

Hi Pierre,

It's pretty simple Just modify your line for NETGEN's LD_LIBRARY_PATH to this:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/lib/Togl1.7:/opt/netgen/lib

And voilá, the whole nine yards of library paths are once again available, including NETGEN's

Best regards,
Bruno