[Mesa-users] Pgplots disappearing and failed to create a model error

[Rob Farmer]

Hi,

The plots disappear and reappear because mesa itself is stopping and
restarting. This can not be avoided unless you run your problem with only
one inlist but note there are many inlists in your folder as MESA needs to
do many different things to go from the pre-MS to core collapse.

If you look in the rn script you'll see many lines do_one inlist_. Each
line is mesa running once with that one inlist, then it runs the next
inlist in sequence. This is why the plots disappear.

This is not a problem for making a movie, if you have each inlist saving
their plots then this will still make a sequence (as long as no inlist
reset's the model number) of files in the pgplot output folder. That can
then be combined with the mesasdk images_to_movie script to make a movie.

>failed to create lgT_9.9.mod when running inlist_to_lgT_9.9_header

This is saying that MESA was unable to finish that inlist, likely because
mesa could not find an acceptable solution. However this is not enough
information to know why mesa failed. Look back over the last few lines of
the terminal output, MESA prints alot of information you can use to start
debugging why it couldn't find a solution, including a line which contains
the termination code which will tell you why MESA stopped at this point in
time.

Rob


On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 12:39, Pieter de Klerk via Mesa-users <
mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Whilst running a 22 solar mass model, the pgplots disappear and
> re-appear after a couple of runs. Why is MESA doing that? It's like the
> plots disappear after MESA finishes reading an inlist header and then
> re-appear after MESA reads a new inlist header. But I don't want it to do
> that. I want the Pgplots to appear on the screen until the run finishes so
> that I can make a movie at the end that shows the evolutionary path of the
> star. I am not sure what I am missing because I did
> set extra_pgstar_inlistXXX = 'inlist_pgstar' in each inlist header. Is
> there a setting I must remove or add?
>
> Then, when the test finishes reading a couple of inlist headers, the error
> (below) appears
>
>
> ******************************************************************************
>  failed to create lgT_9.9.mod when running inlist_to_lgT_9.9_header
>
>  ******************************************************************************
>
> I am really not sure what's causing the error to appear because I did not
> make any changes in the main inlist file.
>
> I attached a folder containing the inlist files and the models.
>
> MESA version: r12778
> MESA SDK version: x86_64-linux-20.3.2
> OS: Linux
>
> Kind regards,
> Pieter.
>
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