[Users] Visit & CarpetHDF5 mismatch?
Christian Reisswig
reisswig at tapir.caltech.edu
Tue Apr 10 15:27:04 CDT 2012
Hi Bernard,
does h5ls work on that file? Are the permissions set correctly?
The last time I tried the reader worked just fine (and this was two weeks ago).
cheers,
Christian
> Hi all. I'd like to visualise some 3D data produced by an initial-data run
> of the EinsteinToolkit (Maxwell).
>
>
> I'm outputting using CarpetIOHDF5; I have an output file
> "hahndol::hahndol_coulomb.h5", and decided to use Visit, as recommended by
> cactuscode, etc.
>
> I grabbed the CarpetHDF5 plugin code from svn, and installed as per
> instructions (pointing at the ETK-installed HDF5 in my
> Cactus/configs/<config-name>/scratch/external directory).
>
> Starting Visit (2.4.2) , and trying to load a .h5 file yields the
> following error:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
> The metadata server running on host localhost has exited abnormally. VisIt
> is trying to restart it.
> Shortly thereafter, the following occured...
> VisIt was unable to open
> "/Users/bjkelly1/Projects/CODES/Cactus/exe/BL_IJS_test/hahndol::hahndol_cou
> lomb.h5". Each attempt to open it caused VisIt's metadata server to
> crash. This can occur when the file is corrupted, or when the underlying
> file format has changed and VisIt's readers have not been updated yet, or
> when the reader VisIt is using for your file format is not robust. Please
> check whether the file is corrupted and, if not, contact a VisIt developer.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
>
>
> I have no idea whether the file is corrupted, but wanted to know: is the
> CarpetHDF5 plugin up-to-date with the output of Maxwell's CarpetIOHDF5?
>
> Any basic ideas where I might have gone wrong?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bernard
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
More information about the Users
mailing list