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needs the https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/parmetis fix to install

You are right @carlosal1015 ! Both OpenFOAM 8 and 9 works when compiling with gcc11, and both face issues when compiled with gcc12. Problem solved, thanks a lot for the hint !

Is right @travonz, possible related with GCC12 https://develop.openfoam.com/Development/openfoam/-/issues/2481

I tried to have the same message error with tutorials from /opt/OpenFoam/.../tutorials, but I had this message (see here) with this code example.

Side note: This is related with openfoam-com, not tested yet with openfoam-org.

Hello, I have just upgraded from 8 to 9 and face a strange issue. Running motorbike tutorial, simpleFoam crashes immediately producing the following message:

--> FOAM FATAL IO ERROR: error in IOstream "OSHA1stream.sinkFile_" for operation Ostream& operator<<(Ostream&, const char) file: OSHA1stream.sinkFile_ at line 0. From function virtual bool Foam::IOstream::check(const char*) const in file db/IOstreams/IOstreams/IOstream.C at line 96.

If I comment out functions { #include "streamlines" #include "cuttingPlane" #include "forceCoeffs"} in controlDict file, it works well.

I have installed everything properly from AUR repo. I have tryied to manually install OpenFOAM 9 and Thirdpary and get the same issue.

Has anyone experienced the same issue ?

@petronny Please could you update to openfoam-org 9. I have the PKGBUILD done:

# Maintainer: Jingbei Li <i@jingbei.li>
# Contributor: Xwang <xwaang1976@gmail.com>
# Contributor: George Eleftheriou <eleftg>
# Contributor: Andrew Fischer <andrew_at_apastron.co>
# Contributor: Gianluca Pettinello <g_pet@hotmail.com>

pkgbase=openfoam
pkgname=openfoam-org
_subver=20211007
_pkgver=9
pkgver=${_pkgver}.${_subver}
#pkgver=${_pkgver}
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="The open source CFD toolbox (www.openfoam.org)"
_distpkgbase=OpenFOAM
_gitname=$_distpkgbase-$_pkgver
arch=('x86_64')
url="http://www.openfoam.org"
license=("GPL")
depends=('bzip2' 'paraview' 'parmetis' 'scotch' 'boost' 'flex' 'cgal')
makedepends=('bash')
provides=('openfoam')
conflicts=('openfoam-com')
source=("https://github.com/OpenFOAM/$_gitname/archive/$_subver.tar.gz")
install="${pkgbase}.install"
md5sums=('SKIP')

prepare() {
  mv $srcdir/$_gitname-$_subver $srcdir/$_distpkgbase-$_pkgver
  # Extract the current version and major of paraview and of scotch for use in the system preferences
  #_pversion=`pacman -Q paraview | sed -e 's/.* //; s/-.*//g'`
  _pversion=$(pacman -Q $(pacman -Qqo $(which paraview)) | sed -e 's/.* //; s/-.*//g')
  _pmajor=`echo $_pversion | cut -d '.' -f1`
  _sversion=`pacman -Q scotch | sed -e 's/.* //; s/-.*//g'`

  # Generate and install the system preferences file
  echo "compilerInstall=system" > ${srcdir}/prefs.sh
  echo "export WM_MPLIB=SYSTEMOPENMPI" >> ${srcdir}/prefs.sh
  echo "export ParaView_VERSION=${_pversion}" >> ${srcdir}/prefs.sh
  echo "export ParaView_MAJOR=${_pmajor}" >> ${srcdir}/prefs.sh
  cp ${srcdir}/prefs.sh ${srcdir}/${_distpkgbase}-${_pkgver}/etc

  # Generate the scotch.sh file for arch
  echo "export SCOTCH_VERSION=scotch_${_sversion}" > ${srcdir}/scotch.sh
  echo "export SCOTCH_ARCH_PATH=/usr" >> ${srcdir}/scotch.sh
  cp ${srcdir}/scotch.sh ${srcdir}/${_distpkgbase}-${_pkgver}/etc/config
}

build() {
  # Setup the build environment
  export FOAM_INST_DIR=${srcdir}
  foamDotFile=${srcdir}/${_distpkgbase}-${_pkgver}/etc/bashrc
  [ -f ${foamDotFile} ] || return 1

  # Enter build directory
  cd ${srcdir}/${_distpkgbase}-${_pkgver}

  # Build and clean up OpenFOAM
  bash -c "source ${foamDotFile}
  ./Allwmake || exit 1
  wclean all || exit 1
  wmakeLnIncludeAll || exit 1"
}

package() {
  cd ${srcdir}

  # Create destination directories
  install -d "${pkgdir}/opt/${_distpkgbase}" "${pkgdir}/etc/profile.d"

  # Copy package to pkgdir
  cp -r "${srcdir}/${_distpkgbase}-${_pkgver}" "${pkgdir}/opt/${_distpkgbase}"

  # Add source file
  echo "export FOAM_INST_DIR=/opt/${_distpkgbase}" > ${pkgdir}/etc/profile.d/openfoam-${_pkgver}.sh
  echo "alias ofoam=\"source \${FOAM_INST_DIR}/${_distpkgbase}-${_pkgver}/etc/bashrc\"" >> ${pkgdir}/etc/profile.d/openfoam-${_pkgver}.sh
  chmod 755 "${pkgdir}/etc/profile.d/openfoam-${_pkgver}.sh"

  # Add stub thirdparty directory to keep openfoam happy
  install -d "${pkgdir}/opt/${_distpkgbase}/ThirdParty-${_pkgver}"

  # Permission fixes - for system-wide install and use
  chmod -R go+r "${pkgdir}/opt"
  chmod -R 755 "${pkgdir}/opt/${_distpkgbase}/${_distpkgbase}-${_pkgver}/bin"
  chmod -R 755 "${pkgdir}/opt/${_distpkgbase}/${_distpkgbase}-${_pkgver}/etc"
}

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Great! I actually built the oF9 from scratch a month earlier, as this was superseded. I request the maintainer to update, as @DarioP added.

I only had to adjust the versions to build the release 20210903 without any issue. Here is the updated PKGBUILD: https://pastebin.com/qkXe8LPh

So you can modify the PKGBUILD of paraview to add -DPARAVIEW_USE_VTKM=OFF and upload it to AUR as paraview-openfoam.

@petronny, no I mean it applies for any ParaView packages. Until I install openFoam, any of those ParaView packages work. After installing OPenFOam, they stop working. So, I just did this (I have both OpenFOAM-v2012 & OpenFOAM8 installed installed in my Arch machine).

sudo pacman -R --nodeps --nodeps paraview

Then I build Paraview Version: 5.9.1-RC1-942-g7cfe71ad8e manually, after downloading the git. With only exception of adding the -DPARAVIEW_USE_VTKM=OFF in the cmake command (described here: ArchLinux ParaView build instruction).

@massisenergy You mean a package like paraview-openfoam?

You can upload it to AUR if you get it working.