Looks like the account under which Meep is running doesn't have write access to your output directory, or file if it's trying to overwrite something.
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:56 AM, manan khurma <manankhu...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Meep members, > > I have installed MEEP on Ubuntu and that got installed without much > problem. However, when I try to run the basic simulation provided in the > MEEP tutorial, I'm faced with the following error message: > > ___________________ > meep> (run-until 200 > ... (at-beginning output-epsilon) > ... (at-end output-efield-z)) > ----------- > Initializing structure... > Working in 2D dimensions. > Computational cell is 16 x 8 x 0 with resolution 10 > block, center = (0,0,0) > size (1e+20,1,1e+20) > axes (1,0,0), (0,1,0), (0,0,1) > dielectric constant epsilon diagonal = (12,12,12) > time for set_epsilon = 0.0711311 s > ----------- > creating output file "./eps-000000.00.h5"... > HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 (1.8.4-patch1) thread 3079476944: > #000: ../../../src/H5F.c line 1432 in H5Fcreate(): unable to create file > major: File accessability > minor: Unable to open file > #001: ../../../src/H5F.c line 1222 in H5F_open(): unable to open file > major: File accessability > minor: Unable to open file > #002: ../../../src/H5FD.c line 1079 in H5FD_open(): open failed > major: Virtual File Layer > minor: Unable to initialize object > #003: ../../../src/H5FDsec2.c line 365 in H5FD_sec2_open(): unable to > open file > major: File accessability > minor: Unable to open file > #004: ../../../src/H5FDsec2.c line 365 in H5FD_sec2_open(): Permission > denied > major: Internal error (too specific to document in detail) > minor: System error message > meep: error on line 450 of ../../../src/h5file.cpp: error opening HDF5 > output file > > Some deprecated features have been used. Set the environment > variable GUILE_WARN_DEPRECATED to "detailed" and rerun the > program to get more information. Set it to "no" to suppress > this message. > > _______________________________________________________ > > What is the problem? Is it to do with file permissions? Please help me out > urgently as firstly I am new to the UNIX system and secondly I've been > unable to resolve this for the past two days and I'm on a very tight > schedule. > > Thanks in advance > > Manan > > > _______________________________________________ > meep-discuss mailing list > meep-discuss@ab-initio.mit.edu > http://ab-initio.mit.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/meep-discuss >
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