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

[Pieter de Klerk]

Hi Rob, thank you so much. That helped a lot.

Kind regards,
Pieter.

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 2:52 PM Rob Farmer <r.j.farmer at uva.nl> wrote:

> 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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