[Users] Visit & CarpetHDF5 mismatch?

[Christian Reisswig]

Hi Scott,

the important errors are:
> ./install: line 8: xmledit: command not found
> ./install: line 9: xml2cmake: command not found

It appears that you need to set your PATH variable to your visit/bin 
directory.

I hope that helps.
Christian

> How did you get the plugin to compile?  When I run the script I getŠ
> 
> 
> ~/apps/VizTools/CarpetHDF5] % ./install
> make: *** No rule to make target `clean'.  Stop.
> rm: Makefile: No such file or directory
> rm: CMakeLists.txt: No such file or directory
> rm: CMakeCache.txt: No such file or directory
> rm: CMakeFiles: No such file or directory
> rm: cmake_install.cmake: No such file or directory
> ./install: line 8: xmledit: command not found
> ./install: line 9: xml2cmake: command not found
> CMake Error: The source directory
> "/Users/shawley/apps/VizTools/CarpetHDF5" does not appear to contain
> CMakeLists.txt.
> Specify --help for usage, or press the help button on the CMake GUI.
> make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
> 
> On 4/10/12 3:24 PM, "Ian Hinder" <ian.hinder at aei.mpg.de> wrote:
> >On 10 Apr 2012, at 22:21, Kelly, Bernard J. (GSFC-660.0)[UNIVERSITY OF
> >
> >MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY] wrote:
> >> 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_c
> >>ou
> >>
> >> 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?
> >
> >One problem can come from Visit trying to open too many files for the
> >maximum open file limit of your OS.  Mac OS, for example, has a very
> >small limit.  Try changing this with ulimit.  But ultimately, you should
> >try to find the actual error message.  I think there is an option for
> >Visit to output the errors to a file, but it's so long since I've used
> >Visit that I don't remember.  Probably someone else can fill that in...
> 
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