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Error: Unable to clear VTK file.

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I am running a code on many hundred cores. When I use inbuilt fenics mesh, everything runs fine. When I use Gmsh, I get the following error after the code runs for 50 - 60 time steps.

Please share you suggestions on what this means and how to get rid of it.

Error:   Unable to clear VTK file.
*** Reason:  Unable to open file "Results/pDP1_p521_000034.vtu".
*** Where:   This error was encountered inside VTKFile.cpp.

The code is in C++, and I am now making an attempt to run a code which writes xdmf instead of pvd. But then, even if that works, I will face this problem, which I don't know how to get rid of.

asked Oct 2, 2016 by Chaitanya_Raj_Goyal FEniCS User (4,150 points)
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