[tomf]

Hi all,

As part of a larger project I was looking into the runTimePostProcessing functionObject for OpenFOAM v1712. I managed to get this working by downloading the latest VTK source files and building them in the thirdparty folder. Furthermore, a small test case resulted in correct images, but the simulation ended with an error message from the runTimePostProcessing library, which is unfortunate since I would like to run the solver as part of an automatic script and I need to check if the various steps end as they should. The error message is:

$> tail -25 buoyantBoussinesqSimpleFoam.log 

    Generating image: "$FOAM_CASE/processor0/../postProcessing/postPro1/5000/image.0000.png"
End

--> FOAM Warning : 
    From function Foam::dlLibraryTable::~dlLibraryTable()
    in file db/dynamicLibrary/dlLibraryTable/dlLibraryTable.C at line 70
    Failed closing "librunTimePostProcessing.so" with handle 29794176
Finalising parallel run
buoyantBoussinesqSimpleFoam: symbol lookup error: /home/tom/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-v1712/platforms/linux64Gcc/VTK-8.1.0/lib/libvtkCommonDataModel-8.1.so.1: undefined symbol: _ZN49vtkInformationQuadratureSchemeDefinitionVectorKeyD1Ev
buoyantBoussinesqSimpleFoam: symbol lookup error: /home/tom/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-v1712/platforms/linux64Gcc/VTK-8.1.0/lib/libvtkCommonDataModel-8.1.so.1: undefined symbol: _ZN49vtkInformationQuadratureSchemeDefinitionVectorKeyD1Ev
buoyantBoussinesqSimpleFoam: symbol lookup error: /home/tom/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-v1712/platforms/linux64Gcc/VTK-8.1.0/lib/libvtkCommonDataModel-8.1.so.1: undefined symbol: _ZN49vtkInformationQuadratureSchemeDefinitionVectorKeyD1Ev
buoyantBoussinesqSimpleFoam: symbol lookup error: /home/tom/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-v1712/platforms/linux64Gcc/VTK-8.1.0/lib/libvtkCommonDataModel-8.1.so.1: undefined symbol: _ZN49vtkInformationQuadratureSchemeDefinitionVectorKeyD1Ev
buoyantBoussinesqSimpleFoam: symbol lookup error: /home/tom/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-v1712/platforms/linux64Gcc/VTK-8.1.0/lib/libvtkCommonExecutionModel-8.1.so.1: undefined symbol: _ZN33vtkFilteringInformationKeyManager13ClassFinalizeEv
-------------------------------------------------------
Primary job  terminated normally, but 1 process returned
a non-zero exit code.. Per user-direction, the job has been aborted.
-------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
mpirun detected that one or more processes exited with non-zero status, thus causing
the job to be terminated. The first process to do so was:

  Process name: [[21017,1],4]
  Exit code:    127
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

So, the solver finished properly, the results are also as expected, I just get an error message which I would rather fix, but I would not know how to do this. Hoping that someone out here has an idea.

Regards,
Tom

[jherb]

Did you solve your problem? I see a similar error:

hej@manni:~/OpenFOAM/hej-6/run/rs1562> foamListTimes -case test
21
--> FOAM Warning :
    From function Foam::dlLibraryTable::~dlLibraryTable()
    in file db/dynamicLibrary/dlLibraryTable/dlLibraryTable.C at line 70
    Failed closing "libliquidPropertiesFvPatchFields.so" with handle 7755536
foamListTimes: symbol lookup error: /home/hej/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-6/platforms/linux64IccDPInt32Opt/lib/libreactionThermophysicalModels.so: undefined symbol: _ZN4Foam11fluidThermo30destroyfvMeshConstructorTablesEv

[tomf]

Hi,

Unfortunately I did not as we decided to take the project in a different direction and this issue was not bothering the workflow anymore. I did not investigate any further.

Regards,
Tom

[jherb]

I found the problem:

In system/controlDict I loaded a special libary (libliquidPropertiesFvPatchFields.so).

And this was linked with references to other and actutally unneded libraries (in this case libreactionThermophysicalModels.so) set in Make/options. But that libary would require references to yet other libraries, not included in Make/options.

By removing the reference to libreactionThermophysicalModels, the error went away.

So I guess, in your case, the same reasoning applies to the libray librunTimePostProcessing.so. It references libvtkCommonDataModel-8.1.so.1 but the latter one requires other references, which would needed to be add to the Make/options file of librunTimePostProcessing

[tomf]

Hi,

I am happy to read you have solved your issue and thanks for reporting the solution.

Unfortunately the librunTimePostProcessing.so does not have a Make/options file:

~/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-v1712> find src/functionObjects/ -iname options
src/functionObjects/lagrangian/Make/options
src/functionObjects/solvers/Make/options
src/functionObjects/utilities/Make/options
src/functionObjects/field/Make/options
src/functionObjects/sixDoFRigidBodyState/Make/options
src/functionObjects/forces/Make/options

I know that I had to install additional libraries to get it working in the first place, but do not recall the exact steps right now.

I may dive into this later.
Regards,
Tom