[CIG-SHORT] Problem running Pylith binary on 64-bit Mac OS X

[Charles Williams]

Sorry about that.  I suspect I accidentally checked that in when I was  
debugging something.

Charles

On 7/12/2009, at 10:28 AM, Brad Aagaard wrote:

> Isabelle-
>
> Yes this was a execution/setup issue, PETSc tries to open an xterm  
> when
> start_in_debugger = true and this can cause problems if X windows is  
> not
> running (often true on OS X).
>
> I just checked and this error was introduced in Aug when Charles  
> changed
> the value of this flag in the twohex8/twocells example. None of the
> other examples have this flag set by default. I just fixed this change
> for the development version so it shouldn't be in the next release.
>
> Brad
>
>
> Isabelle Ryder wrote:
>> Hi Brad/Matt
>>
>> Thanks for your suggestions. Changing the debug option to 0 didn't  
>> work,
>> but commenting out the line
>>
>> start_in_debugger = true
>>
>> in pylithapp.cfg has solved the problem. Now all the viscoelastic
>> examples in the twocells/twohex8 directory have run to completion.  
>> The
>> outputs match the jpg sample figures provided: so can we assume that
>> execution was merely getting "interrupted" as it were by the  
>> debugger,
>> without there being a serious computational issue...?
>>
>> Isabelle
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Brad Aagaard <baagaard at usgs.gov
>> <mailto:baagaard at usgs.gov>> wrote:
>>
>>    Isabelle-
>>
>>    Another difference between the 3d/hex8 examples and the
>>    twocells/twohex8 example, is the
>>
>>    [pylithapp.mesh_generator]
>>    debug = 1
>>
>>    in twocells/twohex8/pylithapp.cfg. Change this to
>>
>>    [pylithapp.mesh_generator]
>>    debug = 0
>>
>>    and let me know if this resolves the issue.
>>
>>    Brad
>>
>>
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>>
>> -- 
>> Dr Isabelle Ryder
>> Lecturer in Geophysics
>> Dept of Earth & Ocean Sciences
>> University of Liverpool
>> L69 3GP
>> tel: 0151 7945143
>>
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