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Manm April 11, 2015 16:38

decomposePar: "Couldn't create directory"
 
Hi,
I am trying to do run on multi-processors using decomposePar. However, after the first processor file is created, error appears that:

Code:

bash-4.1$ decomposePar
/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*\
| =========                |                                                |
| \\      /  F ield        | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox          |
|  \\    /  O peration    | Version:  2.3.x                                |
|  \\  /    A nd          | Web:      www.OpenFOAM.org                      |
|    \\/    M anipulation  |                                                |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
Build  : 2.3.x-ccc06b4581b5
Exec  : decomposePar
Date  : Apr 11 2015
Time  : 16:34:33
Host  : "dc3swp53.dc.umich.edu"
PID    : 9409
Case  : /afs/umich.edu/user/m/a/manm/OpenFOAM/manm-2.3.x/run/project-materials/run-80mph-supercoarse
nProcs : 1
fileModificationChecking : Monitoring run-time modified files using timeStampMaster
allowSystemOperations : Allowing user-supplied system call operations

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



Decomposing mesh region0

Create mesh

Calculating distribution of cells
Selecting decompositionMethod hierarchical

Finished decomposition in 0.54 s

Calculating original mesh data

Distributing cells to processors

Distributing faces to processors

Distributing points to processors

Constructing processor meshes
Reading hexRef8 data : cellLevel
Reading hexRef8 data : pointLevel
Reading hexRef8 data : level0Edge

Processor 0
    Number of cells = 123480
    Number of faces shared with processor 1 = 838
    Number of faces shared with processor 3 = 7942
    Number of faces shared with processor 4 = 150
    Number of processor patches = 3
    Number of processor faces = 8930
    Number of boundary faces = 16786


--> FOAM FATAL ERROR:
Couldn't create directory "/afs/umich.edu/user/m/a/manm/OpenFOAM/manm-2.3.x/run/project-materials/run-80mph-supercoarse/processor1"

    From function Foam::mkDir(const fileName&, mode_t)
    in file POSIX.C at line 555.

FOAM exiting


kindly advise. I am creating a grid which has 740881 cells using blockMesh and snappyHexMesh and exporting this grid to my simulation folder for flow simulation.

Thanks

wyldckat April 19, 2015 11:28

Greetings Manm and welcome to the forum!

I have to say that the error message is very clear on what went wrong:
Quote:

Originally Posted by Manm (Post 541193)
Code:

--> FOAM FATAL ERROR:
Couldn't create directory "/afs/umich.edu/user/m/a/manm/OpenFOAM/manm-2.3.x/run/project-materials/run-80mph-supercoarse/processor1"

    From function Foam::mkDir(const fileName&, mode_t)
    in file POSIX.C at line 555.

FOAM exiting


Are you able to create that directory manually?

Best regards,
Bruno


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