Issue opening .vtu files in virtual box Ubuntu

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cristopher_morales (Cristopher Morales Ubal) March 19, 2024, 10:27am 1

Hi all,

I cannot open .vtm and .vtu files in paraview in my virtual machine in Ubuntu 20.04. Have someone experienced some of these issues before? please find attached the error that I got.

ERROR: In ./VTK/Common/ExecutionModel/vtkStreamingDemandDrivenPipeline.cxx, line 817
vtkCompositeDataPipeline (0x5de043205900): No update piece number has been set in the information for output port 0 on algorithm vtkXMLUnstructuredGridReader(0x5de04126ce10).

ERROR: In ./VTK/IO/XMLParser/vtkXMLParser.cxx, line 375
vtkXMLDataParser (0x5de042da4bb0): Error parsing XML in stream at line 33, column 0, byte index 2263: not well-formed (invalid token)

ERROR: In ./VTK/IO/XML/vtkXMLReader.cxx, line 521
vtkXMLUnstructuredGridReader (0x5de04126ce10): Error parsing input file. ReadXMLInformation aborting.

ERROR: In ./VTK/Common/ExecutionModel/vtkExecutive.cxx, line 752
vtkCompositeDataPipeline (0x5de043205900): Algorithm vtkXMLUnstructuredGridReader(0x5de04126ce10) returned failure for request: vtkInformation (0x5de042d8dbb0)
Debug: Off
Modified Time: 307625
Reference Count: 1
Registered Events: (none)
Request: REQUEST_INFORMATION
ALGORITHM_AFTER_FORWARD: 1
FORWARD_DIRECTION: 0

ERROR: In ./VTK/IO/XMLParser/vtkXMLParser.cxx, line 375
vtkXMLDataParser (0x5de042da4bb0): Error parsing XML in stream at line 33, column 0, byte index 2258: not well-formed (invalid token)

ERROR: In ./VTK/IO/XML/vtkXMLReader.cxx, line 521
vtkXMLUnstructuredGridReader (0x5de04126ce10): Error parsing input file. ReadXMLInformation aborting.

ERROR: In ./VTK/Common/ExecutionModel/vtkExecutive.cxx, line 752
vtkCompositeDataPipeline (0x5de043205900): Algorithm vtkXMLUnstructuredGridReader(0x5de04126ce10) returned failure for request: vtkInformation (0x5de042d8dbb0)
Debug: Off
Modified Time: 307625
Reference Count: 1
Registered Events: (none)
Request: REQUEST_INFORMATION
ALGORITHM_AFTER_FORWARD: 1
FORWARD_DIRECTION: 0

ERROR: In ./VTK/IO/XMLParser/vtkXMLParser.cxx, line 375
vtkXMLDataParser (0x5de042da4bb0): Error parsing XML in stream at line 33, column 0, byte index 2258: not well-formed (invalid token)

ERROR: In ./VTK/IO/XML/vtkXMLReader.cxx, line 521
vtkXMLUnstructuredGridReader (0x5de04126ce10): Error parsing input file. ReadXMLInformation aborting.

ERROR: In ./VTK/Common/ExecutionModel/vtkExecutive.cxx, line 752
vtkCompositeDataPipeline (0x5de043205900): Algorithm vtkXMLUnstructuredGridReader(0x5de04126ce10) returned failure for request: vtkInformation (0x5de042d8dbb0)
Debug: Off
Modified Time: 307625
Reference Count: 1
Registered Events: (none)
Request: REQUEST_INFORMATION
ALGORITHM_AFTER_FORWARD: 1
FORWARD_DIRECTION: 0

ERROR: In ./VTK/IO/XMLParser/vtkXMLParser.cxx, line 375
vtkXMLDataParser (0x5de042da4bb0): Error parsing XML in stream at line 33, column 0, byte index 2258: not well-formed (invalid token)

ERROR: In ./VTK/IO/XML/vtkXMLReader.cxx, line 521
vtkXMLUnstructuredGridReader (0x5de04126ce10): Error parsing input file. ReadXMLInformation aborting.

ERROR: In ./VTK/Common/ExecutionModel/vtkExecutive.cxx, line 752
vtkCompositeDataPipeline (0x5de043205900): Algorithm vtkXMLUnstructuredGridReader(0x5de04126ce10) returned failure for request: vtkInformation (0x5de042d8dbb0)
Debug: Off
Modified Time: 307625
Reference Count: 1
Registered Events: (none)
Request: REQUEST_INFORMATION
ALGORITHM_AFTER_FORWARD: 1
FORWARD_DIRECTION: 0

ERROR: In ./VTK/IO/XMLParser/vtkXMLParser.cxx, line 375
vtkXMLDataParser (0x5de042da4bb0): Error parsing XML in stream at line 33, column 0, byte index 2269: not well-formed (invalid token)

ERROR: In ./VTK/IO/XML/vtkXMLReader.cxx, line 521
vtkXMLUnstructuredGridReader (0x5de04126ce10): Error parsing input file. ReadXMLInformation aborting.

ERROR: In ./VTK/Common/ExecutionModel/vtkExecutive.cxx, line 752
vtkCompositeDataPipeline (0x5de043205900): Algorithm vtkXMLUnstructuredGridReader(0x5de04126ce10) returned failure for request: vtkInformation (0x5de042d8dbb0)
Debug: Off
Modified Time: 307625
Reference Count: 1
Registered Events: (none)
Request: REQUEST_INFORMATION
ALGORITHM_AFTER_FORWARD: 1
FORWARD_DIRECTION: 0

Thank you so much in advance.

Cristopher Morales Ubal

mwestphal (Mathieu Westphal (Kitware)) March 19, 2024, 10:32am 2

Please share your files.

cristopher_morales (Cristopher Morales Ubal) March 19, 2024, 10:42am 3

vol_solution.vtu (441.9 KB)

mwestphal (Mathieu Westphal (Kitware)) March 19, 2024, 12:31pm 4

Works fine using the ParaView 5.12.0 binary release: https://www.paraview.org/download/

cristopher_morales (Cristopher Morales Ubal) March 19, 2024, 2:05pm 5

Thank you so much for your answer. So it might be an issue in the virtual box related to encoding. Anyways, thanks!!!

cory.quammen (Cory Quammen (Kitware)) March 19, 2024, 3:39pm 6

How did you install ParaView?

cristopher_morales (Cristopher Morales Ubal) March 20, 2024, 2:31pm 7

Hi
Thank you so much for your answer, my apologies for my late reply,
I used
sudo apt install paraview

I am not sure if that is the right way of installing paraview. But I also cannot open the .vtu file in the texteditor, it gives the following error:
The file you opened has some invalid characters. If you continue editing this file you could corrupt this document.
You can also choose another character encoding and try again.
I use UTF-8.
I would really appreciate any advice about dealing with these errors.

Best regards,

Cristopher Morales Ubal

cristopher_morales (Cristopher Morales Ubal) March 20, 2024, 4:02pm 8

I can open the .vtu files in windows, so something wrong might be in my virtual box. I have also checked with the command file in linux and I got the following :

Which I think is incorrect.

cory.quammen (Cory Quammen (Kitware)) March 20, 2024, 4:57pm 9

It would be useful to know if a linux download from https://www.paraview.org/download/ works fine.

cristopher_morales (Cristopher Morales Ubal) March 25, 2024, 9:45am 10

Hi
I have downloaded and installed Paraview from the website,
When I follow the installation procedure depicted in this tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWEGjWD8d2M

I cannot create a launcher after I add the following lines in paraview.desktop:
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=ParaView 5.12
Exec=paraview
Terminal=false
Icon=/opt/ParaView-5.12/share/icons/hicolor/96×96/apps/paraview.png
Type=Application
x-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=NewWindow
[NewWindow Shortcut Group]
Name=New Window
Exec=paraview
TargetEnvironment=Unity

However, if I go to opt/Paraview-5.12/bin/ and double click to paraview , I can open Paraview and open the .vtu file.

Do you have some advice of how to fix this this?

When I save paraview.desktop, I got the following warnings that might be related to the issue:

** (gedit:11687): WARNING **: 11:44:00.212: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-spell-language not supported

** (gedit:11687): WARNING **: 11:44:00.213: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-encoding not supported

Thank you so much in advance,

Best regards,

Cristopher Morales Ubal