[Mesa-users] Tutorial Error

[Warrick Ball]

Dear Kira,

Could you attach your modified inlists?  I.e. the main `inlist` and your `inlist_load`.

Regards,
Warrick

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Warrick Ball
Senior Research Software Engineer
University of Birmingham
W.H.Ball at bham.ac.uk

On Fri, 14 Jun 2024, Kira McCracken via Mesa-users wrote:

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> Hello! I'm new to MESA and I am running into some trouble in the "Loading a Model" part of the tutorial (linked here: https://docs.mesastar.org/en/release-r24.03.1/using_mesa/running.html). I created an inlist_load text file as prescribed in the
> instructions, copying and pasting directly from the website. All of my inlist files are in the same tutorial folder that the instructions have you make. When I edited my main inlist file to use inlist_load instead of inlist_project, and ran ./rn, I
> got this error:
> 
> Failed to open control namelist file "inlist_load"
>  reading user weak rate file /Users/kiramccracken/mesa-r24.03.1/data/rates_data/rate_tables/S13_r_be7_wk_li7.h5
>  version_number r24.03.1
>  Failed to open eos namelist file inlist_load
>  set_kap_and_eos_handles failed in alloc_eos_handle_using_inlist
>  set_star_kap_and_eos_handles ierr           2
>  do_before_evolve_loop ierr           2
>  do_before_evolve_loop ierr           2
> 
> I found an archived thread that suggested using ASCII instead of unicode for the inlist files, but that didn't seem to resolve the error. I was wondering how I might go about troubleshooting this. Just to make sure, I deleted and redownloaded MESA
> and tried the tutorial again, but I ran into the same issue.
> Thanks! 
> 
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