[petsc-dev] visit error reading vtk

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Mark F. Adams <mfadams at lbl.gov> wrote:

> Visit gives me this error message when I try to open the sol.vtk output
> from src/dm/impls/plex/examples/tutorials/ex1.  This is from 'next'.
>

This is a mixup when you have data on cell, vertices, and faces for a
single field. It does not know to change to a CELL description. I can
"fix it" by putting each component in a different field I guess.

    Matt


> Mark
>
> localhost:~ markadams$ cd /Users/markadams;
> /Applications/VisIt.app/Contents/Resources/2.6.3/../bin/visit -cli -v 2.6.3
> -reverse_launch -psn_0_15617764 -host 127.0.0.1 -port 5600 -key
> 09f6d282a40029384619 ; exit
> Running: cli2.6.3 -reverse_launch -psn_0_15617764 -host 127.0.0.1 -port
> 5600
> VisIt: Message - Added a new client to the viewer.
> Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Jul 16 2013, 11:02:36)
> [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> VISIT IS UNABLE TO CALL YOUR CALLBACK.
> (This often occurs because the signature of your callback is incorrect.)
> The error message generated by Python is:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/Users/markadams/.visit/visitrc", line 142, in onOpenDatabase
>     SetupSlice()
>   File "/Users/markadams/.visit/visitrc", line 75, in SetupSlice
>     varname = m.GetScalars(0).name
> IndexError: The index is invalid because scalars is empty.
>
>


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