[aspect-devel] Troubles with opening vtk files in Paraview

[Wolfgang Bangerth]

Lev,

> I'm getting an error when trying to open a solution file in Paraview. 
> It's strange because I don't even have a C:\DBD folder. I tried new and 
> old versions of Paraview, enabling and disabling "set Number of grouped 
> files = 1", but it didn't help.

C:\DBD is the folder in which Paraview was compiled. If you installed a 
binary file you downloaded, then this is not a path on your system.


> Did anyone see something like this before?
> 
> ERROR: In 
> C:\DBD\pvs-x64\paraview\src\paraview\VTK\IO\XMLParser\vtkXMLParser.cxx, 
> line 483
> 
> vtkXMLDataParser (0000000016127230): Error parsing XML in stream at line 
> 434, column 19, byte index 233472: not well-formed (invalid token)

It's a pity that paraview doesn't say which file this is in. What 
typically happens with errors such as this is that the file you're 
trying to read is corrupted. This could be because you hit Ctrl-C while 
ASPECT happened to be writing that file (or because your cluster's 
scheduler happened to kill ASPECT just in that moment). It could also be 
because you ran out of file space while ASPECT was running.

If you can guess which file is being read right now, take a look at line 
434 and see how the context around it looks like.

Best
  W.

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