reconstructPar --> fileName::stripInvalid() called for invalid fileName commandtouse
 

I am attempting to set up my dual-core computer to use MPIRUN with a case that I am running.

I decomposed the file, ran MPIRUN without a problem, and the results are distributed within the Processor0 and Processor1 directories as expected. Note that I have run MANY parallel cases on a larger network cluster in the past, so I am familiar with the general process.

The problem I am encountering occurs when I attempt to use reconstructPar to reconstruct the results. The terminal output is as follows:

reconstructPar
/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*\
| ========= | |
| \\ / F ield | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox |
| \\ / O peration | Version: 1.5.x |
| \\ / A nd | Web: http://www.OpenFOAM.org |
| \\/ M anipulation | |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
Exec : reconstructPar
Date : Jul 03 2009
Time : 11:02:57
Host : adona058-laptop
PID : 27442
Case : /home/adona058/OpenFOAM/adona058-1.5.x/run/taylorBubbleParallel
nProcs : 1

// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //
Create time

fileName::stripInvalid() called for invalid fileName commandtouse
For debug level (= 2) > 1 this is considered fatal
Aborted



I would appreciate it if someone could get back to me on why this is occuring. I can set the debug level to 0 to avoid it, but I would rather know that the program is executing correctly.

Thanks,

Adam

you have an invalid named file somewhere. After stripping out the invalid characters it is 'commandtouse'.

I have the same problem and my file names aren't using any strange characters. Is there a length limit for the entire path and file name?

The only real length limit would be INT_MAX, which likely isn't a problem (your filesystem will likely have problems first).

Could you post which file name is getting stripped, so we can reproduce the problem. For reference, here is what src/OpenFOAM/primitives/strings/fileName/fileNameI.H states:

Thus whitespace and quotes are the only things it could (should) be complaining about.

The filename it was working on was:
/storage/OpenFOAM_cases/lenz2_size_exp/len2_18in_tsr06_halftail

The error message would report the name but leave off the _halftail part.

Changing the name to /storage/OpenFOAM_cases/lenz2_size_exp/len2_18inht_tsr06 made the problem go away.

I'm pretty sure I didn't have any spaces in the name, but since I changed it I can't be 100% sure.

This happened with 1.5dev, so you may not want to bother with it.

Too long path name
 

Hansel, Olesen,


I also tried to run blockMesh on a very deeply nested set of files, and it got the same error. When i copied the folder to my desktop, I could run it.

Is this 16x on linux? We have not been able to reproduce the problem - do you have an example?

deeply nested
 

Goeiemorgen Mattijs,

I tried to run the interFoam tutorial by Hassan Hemida. The files can be downloaded from http://www.tfd.chalmers.se/~hani/kurser/OS_CFD_2007/. I nested everything very deeply in my file structure , namely in:

Documents/OpenFOAM\ info/Chalmers/interFoam/fillBottle/lamFillBottle/

However, some other minor difficulties occurred with these files. I had to change some names of parameters like gamma to alpha and pd to p in the system files. I also had to add files like constant/turbulenceProperties and constant/g. Is this because the tutorial was written for an older version of interFoam? I am using OpenFOAM-1.6.


Joris

Spaces in directory and file names are pure poison for OpenFOAM (and several other bits of Unix software). Try renaming to something without space/tab etc and see if that does the trick.

hi
I have this problem too!
I can run blockMesh but when I want too see my mesh in ParaFOAM I get this answer:

fileName::stripInvalid() called for invalid fileName /home/ahmad/Desktop/tpfoch/system/fvSolution::solvers::(U|k|epsilon)
For debug level (= 2) > 1 this is considered fatal

can you help me to solve this problem?

Dear Ahmad

it return to files names usually, check that you have no extra space or unusual file name, another suggestion can be that you can copy your blockMeshDict into icoFoam/cavity , then run blockMesh and see whether it works or not :D

wow!
I copied blockMeshDict to cavity and it worked!!!!
what does it mean?!?!?!

it means nothing, means you should create a new test case or find where the typo is,
as i said it usually returns to bad file name

Greetings to all!

Since this is a frequently asked question, I've added to the FAQ: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/FA..._invalid.22.3F

Best regards,
Bruno

stripInvalid() with patch names
 

Hi foamers,

in order to get familiar with OF and especially groovyBC, I'm currently trying to get a case of 2 cyclically linked patches to work (according to this example in the wiki).

Here's where the relation to this thread comes in:
simpleFoam stops after having calculated u in the first timestep (after startTime) with this:
What's p_Rect0front?
There are <PatchName>_front and <PatchName>_back for every patch in the inlet and outlet.
In my 0/p-file, in order to use groovyBC, I defined:
The problem will not be any special characters or length of the variables, since the wiki example uses , so including numbers and an underscore.

Any ideas?

Greetings Dominik,

I've Googled just now for:
and found this post by Bernhard from 2012: http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...tml#post371428 post #2

Essentially you cannot have spaces inside the variables expressions, otherwise they'll count as part of the variable names. This is essentially exemplified in the wiki page section you indicated, where not a single space is present in the variables expressions! ;)

And if you're wondering why this is still a problem since 2012, it's probably because no one has taken the time to report this on the bug tracker for swak4Foam/groovyBC :rolleyes:.

Best regards,
Bruno

stripInvalid() with patch names - SOLVED
 

Dear Bruno,

thanks a lot! It's sufficiently working now.
I'm sorry for stirring this up when a simple "google it" is the answer.
Anyway, thanks again,

Dominik

Problem while converting .msh to openFoam
 

I am using command fluentMeshToFoam to convert .msh fluent mesh (from ICEM) to openfoam format.
The error is same above
for debug level (= 2) 1 this is considered fatal aborted (core dumped).
Please help. I'm New in this

Not enough information. Please follow the instructions given on this thread: http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...-get-help.html

fileName::stripInvalid() called for invalid fileName 0
 

HI all,

I think my post fits best here . I am getting the same error as above. First my case ran correctly without any mistake and then when i compiled it again its giving error..

fileName::stripInvalid() called for invalid fileName 0
For debug level (= 2) > 1 this is considered fatal
Aborted (core dumped)

Please suggest what should i do?? Any help will be appreciated..

Regards
Ajay

Quick answer: Quoting myself from two previous posts:

1. Quote:

   Originally Posted by wyldckat (Post 550182) Not enough information. Please follow the instructions given on this thread: http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...-get-help.html

2. Quote:

   Originally Posted by wyldckat (Post 467606) [...] this is a frequently asked question, I've added to the FAQ: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/FA..._invalid.22.3F

And please do keep in mind that we cannot see what you do not show us, nor can we see what you do not share with us. Because that error message alone can mean several things, depending on the exact context.

I ran into this error today and have been tinkering with it. None of my OF utilities were working and all threw the same error so I thought I had a messed up build. But eventually I found it was just a space in a folder name.

As mentioned in the above threads, Directory and Mesh file names which are irregular (contains underscore, other symbols) are poisonous. I too was down with this problem. Changed all my file names and case directory names as simple Numbers and Characters

dear mark,
I'm quite out of space in my ssd disk of my laptop by now. So I would often have the need to try/run/visualize some cases on an external USB I have, but which unfortunately is recognized as TOSHIBA EXT by the system, with a whitespace in the name! Is this possible modifying some files as fileName.H to make OF digest these names strings?

Quick answer: You can try using symbolic links. For example, if you run:
it will:

1. Create
2. and go into the default folder that OpenFOAM assigns to the user for running cases inside;
3. and then creates a symbolic link path to the USB disk.

I'm assuming you are using Ubuntu, therefore you need to change the "username" word with your own user-name.

Using quotes for the path with spaces is necessary. The alternative would be to use the backslash:
Once the symbolic link is created, you can now go into the symbolic folder:
and then navigate to the folder where you have the cases from there onwards.

Note: You don't need to delete the symbolic link when you safely eject the USB disk.

Just in case, it may help someone.
I had the same problem but in my case I had a jupyter notebook file saved at the simulation case folder, with a space in its name "notebook name.ipynb". This was enough to break the reconstructPar command.

Quick question @RK_Token: Which OpenFOAM version were/are you using?

I ask this because if it's one of the more recent versions, we can still have this fixed much sooner than later.

And I am very glad that Python based Jupyter Notebooks are being used along with OpenFOAM!

Hey @wyldckat I'm using OpenFOAM-4.1 64bit

If you need more information let me know.

You may want to make a backup and copied some file then renamed it. and there is a space in the name of your execution file.

I also meet this problem just now.

I make a new folder and then copy all the inner files into this. And it worked.

FWIW this longstanding problem has now been fixed in the upcoming OpenFOAM-v1712 release. Now the POSIX readDir will silently (or noisily) drop file and directory names with weird characters that would cause OpenFOAM problems.

Hello!
I faced a similar issue and solved it successfully.
>>
Create databases as time
fileName::stripInvalid() called for invalid fileName 02vectorvelmag.png
For debug level (= 2) > 1 this is considered fatal
Aborted (core dumped)
>>
Solution>>>>>
the file name "02vectorvelmag.png" is actually a .png file saved in my caseDirectory which is actually named as "02 vector vel mag.png" which I saved during post-processing of another case.
So, I removed this file to another location and run the intended command once again. it worked.

That solved my problem. Thank you!
I had one space in my directory name.

I had this mistake and found that I had made a backup copy of system and called it system.copy. That gave the error invalidFileName systemcopy

Perhaps it's something as simple as an extra file or directory in you setup folders.

Maybe useful for someone. I met the similar error, i.e.

for time = 0LUID_inner
fileName::stripInvalid() called for invalid fileName FLUID_inner
For debug level (= 2) > 1 this is considered fatal

when I run the case from Allrun script. But it run without this error if I input the same command in terminal. Finally I find there are two blank lines after the command which the above error emit. After delete these two blank lines, it runs successfully.

I am new and not sure if you have already know this.