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@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 _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@einsteintoolkit.org http://lists.einsteintoolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/users

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