[Users] Fwd: Problems when opening Visit

[Erik Schnetter]

Stephen

There are two slightly different Cactus output formats, depending on
which driver you are using, PUGH or Carpet. The VisIt Cactus reader
works with Carpet, which is what we use for production runs. The
WaveToy demo may be using PUGH as driver, and these files may then not
be readable.

Which driver did you use? You can see in the parameter file which
thorns are activated, and you are probably activating either PUGH or
Carpet.

VisIt is not very clever about detecting file formats. It may become
confused and assume that this is a Pixie file, even though it is
actually a Cactus file.

-erik

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Sheler, Stephen Andrew
<sheler1 at live.marshall.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a question concerning the opening of Visit and trying to visualize
> the wave toy demo there. I am following the instructions on configuring Mac
> OS X for Cactus. After compiling HDF5, I opened Visit and ran the file
> phi.h5 and this warning was shown...
> If this is not a Pixie file, you can manually select the correct file format
> reader when opening the file, set the correct reader as a preferred plugin,
> disable the Pixie plugin, or request that the developers of the Pixie plugin
> add code to distinguish your file from one of theirs.
> how do set the correct reader?
> one more thing, if I ignore the warning i can visualize but i have the
> following error
> HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 (1.8.4) thread 0:
>   #000: H5G.c line 397 in H5Gopen2(): unable to open group
>     major: Symbol table
>     minor: Can't open object
>
> I would appreciate your help with these problems,
> Stephen Sheler
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