[Gmsh] Gmsh 2.4.0/2.4.1 freeze on windows

Christophe Geuzaine cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be
Mon Sep 21 08:10:01 CEST 2009


Ludovic.Ricard at csiro.au wrote:
> Hi there,
>  
> I am experiencing a bug using gmsh.
> In here, Gmsh is use by quite a few people and they didn't experience 
> this bug before.
>  
> OS: Windows XP SP3
> Gmsh version tested:
> 2.0.0 no problem.
> 2.1.0 no problem.
> 2.2.0 no problem.
> 2.3.0 no problem.
> 2.3.1 no problem.
> 2.4.0 problem.
> 2.4.1 problem.
>  
> I did download the binaries files and unzip them in my computer.
>  
> Ok now what exactly happen:
> Please find attached the geo file I used (it's the beginning of tutotial 1).
> When at the stage of the Planar surface, Gmsh 2.4.0 or 2.4.1 just 
> freeze. 100% is in use but nothing happen. It was working the very first 
> time but since then, no. Of course, no error files generated.
>  
> My though is that a temporary file is not deleted somewhere but can't 
> find it. This bug does not happen or earlier version to 2.4.0.

We had a similar problem with our 2.4.0 Linux build, which was caused by 
linking to the reference lapack lib compiled with optimization.

I've relinked yesterday's nightly build with an unoptimized lapack lib: 
does it make any difference ?

   http://geuz.org/gmsh/bin/Windows/gmsh-nightly-Windows.zip

CC:ing Andreas, who experienced a similar problem.



>  
> If you have any idea about what it could be.
> Thanks a lot.
> Cheers,
> Ludo
> 
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