It seems MEEP is OK, but HDF5 has problems. Try run simple meep files without output HDF5 files.
See the link for intallation: http://ab-initio.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/Meep_Installation On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:56 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 > _______________________________________________ meep-discuss mailing list meep-discuss@ab-initio.mit.edu http://ab-initio.mit.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/meep-discuss
