Can't run MFiX 19.3.1

MFiX
#1

Hello everyone,

I have a problem running MFiX 19.3.1 on CentOS 7.7. I tried both the Conda env and building from source.

Using Conda when I launch MFiX I get:

ERROR: In …/Rendering/OpenGL2/vtkOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx, line 754
vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x558d41d8c850): Unable to find a valid OpenGL 3.2 or later implementation. Please update your video card driver to the latest version. If you are using Mesa please make sure you have version 11.2 or later and make sure your driver in Mesa supports OpenGL 3.2 such as llvmpipe or openswr. If you are on windows and using Microsoft remote desktop note that it only supports OpenGL 3.2 with nvidia quadro cards. You can use other remoting software such as nomachine to avoid this issue.

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

And building from source, I got stuck at:
raise Exception(“Unable to find MFIX_HOME in %s” % list(_mfix_homes()))
Exception: Unable to find MFIX_HOME in []

Will you please help me identify the problem in both cases?
Let me know if further system info is needed.

Also mfix-help@mfix.netl.doe.gov seems not working.

#2

Hi Hafezpa.

Answering your questions out-of-order :slight_smile:

  1. The mfix-help email has been retired. This forum is now the place for help requests.

  2. What set of instructions are you following when building from source?

  3. It looks like your OpenGL installation is not happy. Can you run any other OpenGL programs? How about glxinfo ?

Hope this helps,

  • Charles
#3

Hi Charles,

Thanks for your reply.
I tried to post to the help account multiple times and it failed, so that’s why.

For the build from source I use nothing special, just the prefix.

I can run glxinfo, do you want anything specific from the output?

Thanks again

#4

Hi Charles,

Thanks for your reply.
I tried to post to the help account multiple times and it failed, so that’s why.

For the build from source I use nothing special, just the prefix.

I can run glxinfo and glxgears, do you want anything specific from the output?

Thanks again