[Arenio]

cavity tutorial:
I tipped blockMesh and following occured:

Failed writing polyMesh.
From function blockMesh
in file genBlockMesh.C at line 303.

Thanks

[kirubhakaran]

i cant able to create the blockmesh in OPENFOAM it showing like polymesh cant be written i made display the error in which is displayed in the terminal
. actually i tried with a tutorial problem were i cant able to find the solution of it. actually i tried it in openFoam/tut/incompressible/iofoam/cavity only.


Creating block mesh from
"/opt/openfoam201/tutorials/incompressible/icoFoam/cavity/constant/polyMesh/blockMeshDict"
Creating curved edges
Creating topology blocks
Creating topology patches

Creating block mesh topology

Check topology

Basic statistics
Number of internal faces : 0
Number of boundary faces : 6
Number of defined boundary faces : 6
Number of undefined boundary faces : 0
Checking patch -> block consistency

Creating block offsets
Creating merge list .

Creating polyMesh from blockMesh
Creating patches
Creating cells
Creating points with scale 0.1

Writing polyMesh


--> FOAM FATAL ERROR:
Failed writing polyMesh.

From function blockMesh
in file blockMeshApp.C at line 336.

FOAM exiting

[Bernhard]

Do you have root permissions on this system? I.e. do you have write access in /opt?

[Prash]

I tried same for bubbleFOAM got the same error message

--> FOAM FATAL ERROR:
FAILED writing polymesh.

I do have access to /opt directory. I am trying to run from there itself.

[calim_cfd]

Originally Posted by Prash

I tried same for bubbleFOAM got the same error message

--> FOAM FATAL ERROR:
FAILED writing polymesh.

I do have access to /opt directory. I am trying to run from there itself.

i prolly shouldnt say this but.... type this at terminal

cd /opt/ 
chmod -Rf 777 opemfoam201/

then try again.. it will work..


but you shouldn't do this..thou it works.. you should do this (if you installed of properly)

mkdir -p $FOAM_RUN 
cp -r $FOAM_TUTORIALS $FOAM_RUN

and try this

cd $FOAM_RUN/tutorials/incompressible/icoFoam/cavity  (or just type the alias: run)
blockMesh 
icoFoam 
paraFoam

it should work.. at least one of the options above

[Prash]

Hey thanks,

I was using OF 1.7.1 , it worked if I copied tutorials to my home directory.
Thanks a ton.

Best wishes
Prashant