[harsha_kulkarni]

Hello friends,

I have work station hpz840 on which I have installed SUSE enterprise 12. I want to install OpenFOAM 2.3.1 on it . I tried to follow the same procedure that given on the web site but I am not able to install it can you help me asap



Regards
Harshawardhan

[wyldckat]

Quick answer: I'm not familiar with SuSE 12, therefore I don't know with which openSUSE it looks like to the most. Nonetheless, try the instructions given here: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/In...2.3.1/openSUSE

[harsha_kulkarni]

Dear sir,

I tried

" boost-devel gmp-devel mpfr-devel libQtWebKit-devel"

This command

It is showing error- boost-devel command not found

and latter "source /etc/profile.d/mpi-selector.sh"

after entering this command

it is showing

etc/profile.d/mpi-selector.sh no such file or direcitory

[wyldckat]

Greetings Harshawardhan,

I was intrigued by how SUSE was configured and I downloaded the 60 day trial versions they have of SLED and SLES.
You can find the installation instructions of OpenFOAM 2.3.1 for each specific variant of SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 here: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/In...nux_Enterprise

Best regards,
Bruno

[Blanco]

Hi Wyldckat,

I have a "strange" problem with SLED12 and OpenFoam...basically I am not able to install because there is something wrong in the environment variables.

I've download and unpacked the source archives, created the alias in my /home/username/.bashrc and if I source the OF bashrc file using my alias I have nothing as output in the bash shell (as expected...nothing should appear here).
However, I've noticed that "foam" command is not available after sourcing the OF bashrc, and this tells me that something is wrong...

andrea@PWT-linux:~> alias
...
alias of24='source /opt/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc/bashrc'
...

andrea@PWT-linux:~> of24
andrea@PWT-linux:~> foam
bash: foam: command not found

If I try to continue I get (note that I want to install to /opt/OpenFOAM):

andrea@PWT-linux:~> echo $WM_PROJECT_DIR
/opt/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0
andrea@PWT-linux:~> cd $WM_PROJECT_DIR
andrea@PWT-linux:/opt/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0> ./Allwmake 
./Allwmake: line 4: wmakeCheckPwd: command not found
Error: Current directory is not $WM_PROJECT_DIR
    The environment variables are inconsistent with the installation.
    Check the OpenFOAM entries in your dot-files and source them.

Because of this, I would say that even if I can see the correct environment variables using an "echo" command, the Allwmake script cannot see them and complains...

Do you have any idea on how to solve this issue, please?

Best regards,

Andrea

[wyldckat]

Greetings Andrea,

You need to edit the file "/opt/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc/bashrc" and change the installation path in this block of code:

################################################################################
# USER EDITABLE PART: Changes made here may be lost with the next upgrade
#
# either set $FOAM_INST_DIR before sourcing this file or set
# 'foamInstall' below to where OpenFOAM is installed
#
# Location of the OpenFOAM installation
# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
foamInstall=$HOME/$WM_PROJECT
# foamInstall=~$WM_PROJECT
# foamInstall=/opt/$WM_PROJECT
# foamInstall=/usr/local/$WM_PROJECT
#
# END OF (NORMAL) USER EDITABLE PART
################################################################################

Although I strongly advise you to build OpenFOAM as a normal user and not as root. One wrong step and you risk damaging your system.

Best regards,
Bruno

[Blanco]

Hello Bruno,

thanks for your answer. Unfortunately I already modified the bashrc in the OF package, because I know that's the file where the foamInstall is defined, and I get the error. I've tried to install also to $HOME/$WM_PROJECT_DIR (so without modifing the bashrc) but it doesn't work also in that case.

The problem is that OF aliases are not available after sourcing the OF bashrc, even if other variables defined inside the same bashrc are corretly updated (i.e. $WM_PROJECT_DIR). This means to me that something goes wrong during the source of OF bashrc, even if I don't have any output from the source...

BTW, I've tried also to do

export FOAM_INST_DIR=/opt/OpenFOAM 
foamDotFile=$FOAM_INST_DIR/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc/bashrc 
[ -f $foamDotFile ] && . $foamDotFile

but the result is the same error.

Do you have any idea? Am I missing something related to the term environment (I'm using a gnome term)?

Best regards,

Andrea

[alexeym]

Hi,

Could you post a little bit more about how you installed OpenFOAM? I have tried openSUSE 12.3 and OpenFOAM 2.4.0 in /opt/openfoam/OpenFOAM-2.4.0. And everything is works as expected (it is even possible to install OpenFOAM into /opt/openfoam/2.4.0 after modification of foamEtcFile script).

You can try do set FOAM_VERBOSE environment variable to debug 'source /etc/bashrc' execution.

[wyldckat]

Greetings to all!

I believe that I incorrectly diagnosed the other error message, namely this one:

andrea@PWT-linux:/opt/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0> ./Allwmake 
./Allwmake: line 4: wmakeCheckPwd: command not found
Error: Current directory is not $WM_PROJECT_DIR
    The environment variables are inconsistent with the installation.
    Check the OpenFOAM entries in your dot-files and source them.

Please run the following command:

ls -lZ $WM_PROJECT_DIR/wmake

If my guess is correct, the problem is that:

• either the folder "wmake" doesn't exist;
• or it's not accessible;
• or the scripts do not have execution permissions;
• the "Z" option is to provide more details about SELinux which might be disabling the ability to run scripts from this folder.

I say this because the script "wmakeCheckPwd" is found inside the folder "wmake" and should be executable.

Best regards,
Bruno

[Blanco]

Hi Bruno and Alexey,

thanks for your suggestions, I've tried both of them.

I've downloaded OF and Thirdparty from the official sourcepack webpage, as long as original files are concerned.

export FOAM_VERBOSE=1
andrea@...:~> source OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc/bashrc 
Sourcing: /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc/config/settings.sh
Sourcing: /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc/config/aliases.sh
Sourcing: /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc/config/paraview.sh
Sourcing: /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc/config/ensight.sh
Sourcing: /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc/config/gperftools.sh
Sourcing: /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc/config/CGAL.sh

Therefore everything seems ok...but, again, if I try "foam" alias it doesn't work, but if I check $WM_PROJECT_DIR that's correctly set...

andrea@...:~> ls -lZ $WM_PROJECT_DIR/wmake
total 108
-rw-r--r--  1 andrea users ? 7226 May 22 11:50 Makefile
-rw-r--r--  1 andrea users ? 1519 May 22 11:50 MakefileApps
-rw-r--r--  1 andrea users ? 2671 May 22 11:50 MakefileFiles
-rw-r--r--  1 andrea users ? 2227 May 22 11:50 MakefileOptions
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andrea users ? 1886 May 22 11:50 makeWmake
drwxr-xr-x 31 andrea users ? 4096 May 22 11:50 rules
drwxr-xr-x  2 andrea users ?  114 May 22 11:50 scripts
drwxr-xr-x  2 andrea users ? 4096 May 22 11:50 src
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andrea users ? 4511 May 22 11:50 wclean
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andrea users ? 2469 May 22 11:50 wcleanAll
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andrea users ? 1831 May 22 11:50 wcleanLnIncludeAll
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andrea users ? 2952 May 22 11:50 wcleanMachine
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andrea users ? 8901 May 22 11:50 wmake
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andrea users ? 2664 May 22 11:50 wmakeCheckPwd
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andrea users ? 2549 May 22 11:50 wmakeFilesAndOptions
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andrea users ? 2568 May 22 11:50 wmakeFindEmptyMake
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andrea users ? 4036 May 22 11:50 wmakeLnInclude
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andrea users ? 2856 May 22 11:50 wmakeLnIncludeAll
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andrea users ? 5725 May 22 11:50 wmakePrintBuild
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andrea users ? 6608 May 22 11:50 wmakeScheduler
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andrea users ? 6846 May 22 11:50 wmakeSchedulerUptime

I see wmake is executable, as other w* files in this folder, however it still complain if I try to go in $WM_PROJECT_DIR and launch Allwmake script.

Do you have any other idea?
BTW, I have moved from SLED12 to SLES11, but the problem is the same
I've succesfully compiled on OpenSUSE too, on my laptop.

Best regards,

Andrea

[wyldckat]

@Andrea - A few quick questions:

1. So it seems that SELinux is not the reason for the problem. Then what does the following command give you?
   

   ls -lZ $WM_PROJECT_DIR

2. The other suspect is the shell binary (sh, bash or csh) you're using. What do these commands give you?
   

   ls -l $(which sh) $(which bash)
   bash --version

   Or are you using csh or tcsh?
3. The other less know suspect is the output given by this command:
   

   ulimit -a

[Blanco]

Hi Bruno,

thanks for your effort about this issue.

If I try the first command I get

andrea@...:~/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc> ls -lZ $WM_PROJECT_DIR
total 68
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andrea users ?   932 May 22 11:50 Allwmake
drwxr-xr-x  5 andrea users ?    62 May 22 11:50 applications
drwxr-xr-x  3 andrea users ?  4096 May 22 11:50 bin
-rw-r--r--  1 andrea users ? 35647 May 22 11:50 COPYING
drwxr-xr-x  6 andrea users ?   112 May 22 11:50 doc
drwxr-xr-x  7 andrea users ?   148 Nov  3 12:11 etc
-rw-r--r--  1 andrea users ?  7656 May 22 11:50 README.html
-rw-r--r--  1 andrea users ?  1471 May 22 11:50 README.org
drwxr-xr-x 37 andrea users ?  4096 May 22 11:50 src
drwxr-xr-x 16 andrea users ?  4096 May 22 11:50 tutorials
drwxr-xr-x  5 andrea users ?  4096 May 22 11:50 wmake

therefore everything is ok in my opinion, since I can see the content of the correct $WM_PROJECT_DIR

Coming to the shell type I'm using bash:

andrea@...:~/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc>ls -l $(which sh) $(which bash)
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 588144 May 19 07:23 /bin/bash
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      9 Oct 27 16:07 /usr/bin/sh -> /bin/bash
andrea@...:~/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc>bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Going to the third command, I get:

andrea@...:~/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc> ulimit -a
core file size          (blocks, -c) 1
data seg size           (kbytes, -d) unlimited
scheduling priority             (-e) 0
file size               (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals                 (-i) 255952
max locked memory       (kbytes, -l) 64
max memory size         (kbytes, -m) 27857728
open files                      (-n) 1024
pipe size            (512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues     (bytes, -q) 819200
real-time priority              (-r) 0
stack size              (kbytes, -s) 8192
cpu time               (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes              (-u) 255952
virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) 28313760
file locks                      (-x) unlimited

Are these limits appropriate for OpenFOAM?

Thanks,
Best regards,

Andrea

[wyldckat]

Hi Andrea,

Something is wrong there. The unlimit values all look OK to me, but the bash version is what I'm concerned about.

I booted up the VM that I have with SLED 12 and I got this version:

# bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.2.47(1)-release (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Please double-check which version you have installed of SLED, by running:

cat /etc/SuSE-release
cat /etc/os-release

I get the following:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 (x86_64)
VERSION = 12
PATCHLEVEL = 0
# This file is deprecated and will be removed in a future service pack or release.
# Please check /etc/os-release for details about this release.

NAME="SLED"
VERSION="12"
VERSION_ID="12"
PRETTY_NAME="SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12"
ID="sled"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:suse:sled:12"

I know that there are some older bash versions that have some crazy issues with environment variables not being fully updated unless a new terminal was started.
Therefore, sorting out how that older bash version got installed in the first place, would probably help in solving this problem.

Best regards,
Bruno

[Blanco]

Hi Bruno,

thanks for the reply. Yes I'm using an older bash because in the meantime I have switched to SLES 11 SP4 (-2 posts), which comes with bash 3.2.57(1) from the official Suse repo.
So if this is the problem then I have to try to update bash and see if it solve the issue...very strange, never had to manually update bash before.

I'll let you know.

Best regards,

Andrea

[wyldckat]

Hi Andrea,

Originally Posted by Blanco

Yes I'm using an older bash because in the meantime I have switched to SLES 11 SP4 (-2 posts), which comes with bash 3.2.57(1) from the official Suse repo.

Sorry, I forgot about that... let me check...

Originally Posted by Blanco

BTW, I have moved from SLED12 to SLES11, but the problem is the same

OK, then that sort-of rules out it being a problem with bash.

Mmm... the request I should have already made is what does the command export give you? Preferably, the output before sourcing OpenFOAM's shell environment and then the output afterwards.

The other diagnosis requires a complete dump of what the source command does. This can be done with the following commands (please adapt to your path):

set -x
source /opt/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc/bashrc > log.source 2>&1
set +x

The file "log.source" now has the output for all of the commands that were executed in OpenFOAM's "etc/bashrc".

Best regards,
Bruno

[Blanco]

Hi Bruno,

ok, the export command before source OF bashrc gives:

declare -x ALSA_CONFIG_PATH="/etc/alsa-pulse.conf"
declare -x COLORTERM="gnome-terminal"
declare -x CPU="x86_64"
declare -x CSHEDIT="emacs"
declare -x CVS_RSH="ssh"
declare -x DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-Zd0j34EQdL,guid=b7a0e3ea125103d21fd592b05644c66f"
declare -x DESKTOP_SESSION="gnome"
declare -x DISPLAY=":0.0"
declare -x ENV="/etc/bash.bashrc"
declare -x FROM_HEADER=""
declare -x GDMSESSION="gnome"
declare -x GDM_KEYBOARD_LAYOUT="it"
declare -x GDM_LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
declare -x GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID="this-is-deprecated"
declare -x GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET="/tmp/keyring-qCRzlO/socket"
declare -x GTK_IM_MODULE="cedilla"
declare -x GTK_RC_FILES="/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/andrea/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2"
declare -x G_BROKEN_FILENAMES="1"
declare -x G_FILENAME_ENCODING="@locale,UTF-8,ISO-8859-15,CP1252"
declare -x HISTSIZE="1000"
declare -x HOME="/home/andrea"
declare -x HOSTTYPE="x86_64"
declare -x ICEAUTHORITY="/home/andrea/.ICEauthority"
declare -x INFODIR="/usr/local/info:/usr/share/info:/usr/info"
declare -x INFOPATH="/usr/local/info:/usr/share/info:/usr/info"
declare -x INPUTRC="/home/andrea/.inputrc"
declare -x LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
declare -x LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib64/mpi/gcc/openmpi/lib64"
declare -x LESS="-M -I"
declare -x LESSCLOSE="lessclose.sh %s %s"
declare -x LESSKEY="/etc/lesskey.bin"
declare -x LESSOPEN="lessopen.sh %s"
declare -x LESS_ADVANCED_PREPROCESSOR="no"
declare -x LOGNAME="andrea"
declare -x LS_COLORS="no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=00;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=41;33;01:ex=00;32:*.cmd=00;32:*.exe=01;32:*.com=01;32:*.bat=01;32:*.btm=01;32:*.dll=01;32:*.tar=00;31:*.tbz=00;31:*.tgz=00;31:*.rpm=00;31:*.deb=00;31:*.arj=00;31:*.taz=00;31:*.lzh=00;31:*.lzma=00;31:*.zip=00;31:*.zoo=00;31:*.z=00;31:*.Z=00;31:*.gz=00;31:*.bz2=00;31:*.tb2=00;31:*.tz2=00;31:*.tbz2=00;31:*.avi=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.mng=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.pcx=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.wmv=01;35:*.aiff=00;32:*.au=00;32:*.mid=00;32:*.mp3=00;32:*.ogg=00;32:*.voc=00;32:*.wav=00;32:"
declare -x LS_OPTIONS="-N --color=tty -T 0"
declare -x MACHTYPE="x86_64-suse-linux"
declare -x MAIL="/var/spool/mail/andrea"
declare -x MANPATH="/usr/lib64/mpi/gcc/openmpi/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man"
declare -x MINICOM="-c on"
declare -x MORE="-sl"
declare -x NNTPSERVER="news"
declare -x OLDPWD
declare -x ORBIT_SOCKETDIR="/tmp/orbit-andrea"
declare -x OSTYPE="linux"
declare -x PAGER="less"
declare -x PATH="/opt/GTI/bin:/usr/lib64/mpi/gcc/openmpi/bin:/home/andrea/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin"
declare -x PROFILEREAD="true"
declare -x PWD="/home/andrea"
declare -x PYTHONSTARTUP="/etc/pythonstart"
declare -x QT_IM_MODULE="xim"
declare -x QT_IM_SWITCHER="imsw-multi"
declare -x QT_SYSTEM_DIR="/usr/share/desktop-data"
declare -x SDL_AUDIODRIVER="pulse"
declare -x SESSION_MANAGER="local/localhost:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/97186,unix/localhost:/tmp/.ICE-unix/97186"
declare -x SHELL="/bin/bash"
declare -x SHLVL="1"
declare -x SSH_AGENT_PID="97272"
declare -x SSH_ASKPASS="/usr/lib64/ssh/x11-ssh-askpass"
declare -x SSH_AUTH_SOCK="/tmp/keyring-qCRzlO/socket.ssh"
declare -x TERM="xterm"
declare -x TMPDIR="/tmp"
declare -x USER="andrea"
declare -x USERNAME="andrea"
declare -x WINDOWID="56700507"
declare -x WINDOWMANAGER="/usr/bin/gnome"
declare -x XAUTHLOCALHOSTNAME="localhost"
declare -x XAUTHORITY="/var/run/gdm/auth-for-andrea-U5Tkjg/database"
declare -x XCURSOR_THEME="DMZ"
declare -x XDG_CONFIG_DIRS="/etc/xdg"
declare -x XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/share:/etc/opt/kde3/share:/opt/kde3/share"
declare -x XDG_SESSION_COOKIE="df753287311c93eee2650534562f93e2-1447347822.974326-750653879"
declare -x XKEYSYMDB="/usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB"
declare -x XMODIFIERS="@im=local"
declare -x XNLSPATH="/usr/share/X11/nls"
declare -x XSESSION_IS_UP="yes"

If issued after sourcing OF bashrc I have:

 declare -x ALSA_CONFIG_PATH="/etc/alsa-pulse.conf"
declare -x COLORTERM="gnome-terminal"
declare -x CPU="x86_64"
declare -x CSHEDIT="emacs"
declare -x CVS_RSH="ssh"
declare -x DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-Zd0j34EQdL,guid=b7a0e3ea125103d21fd592b05644c66f"
declare -x DESKTOP_SESSION="gnome"
declare -x DISPLAY=":0.0"
declare -x ENV="/etc/bash.bashrc"
declare -x FOAM_INST_DIR="/home/andrea/OpenFOAM"
declare -x FOAM_SETTINGS=""
declare -x FOAM_SIGFPE=""
declare -x FROM_HEADER=""
declare -x GDMSESSION="gnome"
declare -x GDM_KEYBOARD_LAYOUT="it"
declare -x GDM_LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
declare -x GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID="this-is-deprecated"
declare -x GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET="/tmp/keyring-qCRzlO/socket"
declare -x GTK_IM_MODULE="cedilla"
declare -x GTK_RC_FILES="/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/andrea/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2"
declare -x G_BROKEN_FILENAMES="1"
declare -x G_FILENAME_ENCODING="@locale,UTF-8,ISO-8859-15,CP1252"
declare -x HISTSIZE="1000"
declare -x HOME="/home/andrea"
declare -x HOSTTYPE="x86_64"
declare -x ICEAUTHORITY="/home/andrea/.ICEauthority"
declare -x INFODIR="/usr/local/info:/usr/share/info:/usr/info"
declare -x INFOPATH="/usr/local/info:/usr/share/info:/usr/info"
declare -x INPUTRC="/home/andrea/.inputrc"
declare -x LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
declare -x LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib64/mpi/gcc/openmpi/lib64"
declare -x LESS="-M -I"
declare -x LESSCLOSE="lessclose.sh %s %s"
declare -x LESSKEY="/etc/lesskey.bin"
declare -x LESSOPEN="lessopen.sh %s"
declare -x LESS_ADVANCED_PREPROCESSOR="no"
declare -x LOGNAME="andrea"
declare -x LS_COLORS="no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=00;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=41;33;01:ex=00;32:*.cmd=00;32:*.exe=01;32:*.com=01;32:*.bat=01;32:*.btm=01;32:*.dll=01;32:*.tar=00;31:*.tbz=00;31:*.tgz=00;31:*.rpm=00;31:*.deb=00;31:*.arj=00;31:*.taz=00;31:*.lzh=00;31:*.lzma=00;31:*.zip=00;31:*.zoo=00;31:*.z=00;31:*.Z=00;31:*.gz=00;31:*.bz2=00;31:*.tb2=00;31:*.tz2=00;31:*.tbz2=00;31:*.avi=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.mng=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.pcx=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.wmv=01;35:*.aiff=00;32:*.au=00;32:*.mid=00;32:*.mp3=00;32:*.ogg=00;32:*.voc=00;32:*.wav=00;32:"
declare -x LS_OPTIONS="-N --color=tty -T 0"
declare -x MACHTYPE="x86_64-suse-linux"
declare -x MAIL="/var/spool/mail/andrea"
declare -x MANPATH="/usr/lib64/mpi/gcc/openmpi/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:"
declare -x MINICOM="-c on"
declare -x MORE="-sl"
declare -x NNTPSERVER="news"
declare -x OLDPWD="/home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc"
declare -x ORBIT_SOCKETDIR="/tmp/orbit-andrea"
declare -x OSTYPE="linux"
declare -x PAGER="less"
declare -x PATH="/opt/GTI/bin:/usr/lib64/mpi/gcc/openmpi/bin:/home/andrea/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin"
declare -x PROFILEREAD="true"
declare -x PWD="/home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc"
declare -x PYTHONSTARTUP="/etc/pythonstart"
declare -x QT_IM_MODULE="xim"
declare -x QT_IM_SWITCHER="imsw-multi"
declare -x QT_SYSTEM_DIR="/usr/share/desktop-data"
declare -x SDL_AUDIODRIVER="pulse"
declare -x SESSION_MANAGER="local/localhost:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/97186,unix/localhost:/tmp/.ICE-unix/97186"
declare -x SHELL="/bin/bash"
declare -x SHLVL="1"
declare -x SSH_AGENT_PID="97272"
declare -x SSH_ASKPASS="/usr/lib64/ssh/x11-ssh-askpass"
declare -x SSH_AUTH_SOCK="/tmp/keyring-qCRzlO/socket.ssh"
declare -x TERM="xterm"
declare -x TMPDIR="/tmp"
declare -x USER="andrea"
declare -x USERNAME="andrea"
declare -x WINDOWID="56700507"
declare -x WINDOWMANAGER="/usr/bin/gnome"
declare -x WM_ARCH_OPTION="64"
declare -x WM_COMPILER="Gcc"
declare -x WM_COMPILE_OPTION="Opt"
declare -x WM_MPLIB="SYSTEMOPENMPI"
declare -x WM_OSTYPE="POSIX"
declare -x WM_PRECISION_OPTION="DP"
declare -x WM_PROJECT="OpenFOAM"
declare -x WM_PROJECT_DIR="/home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0"
declare -x WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR="/home/andrea/OpenFOAM"
declare -x WM_PROJECT_USER_DIR="/home/andrea/OpenFOAM/andrea-2.4.0"
declare -x WM_PROJECT_VERSION="2.4.0"
declare -x WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR="/home/andrea/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-2.4.0"
declare -x XAUTHLOCALHOSTNAME="localhost"
declare -x XAUTHORITY="/var/run/gdm/auth-for-andrea-U5Tkjg/database"
declare -x XCURSOR_THEME="DMZ"
declare -x XDG_CONFIG_DIRS="/etc/xdg"
declare -x XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/share:/etc/opt/kde3/share:/opt/kde3/share"
declare -x XDG_SESSION_COOKIE="df753287311c93eee2650534562f93e2-1447347822.974326-750653879"
declare -x XKEYSYMDB="/usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB"
declare -x XMODIFIERS="@im=local"
declare -x XNLSPATH="/usr/share/X11/nls"
declare -x XSESSION_IS_UP="yes"

After sourcing with recorded output in log.source, as you said, I get:

++ export WM_PROJECT=OpenFOAM
++ WM_PROJECT=OpenFOAM
++ export WM_PROJECT_VERSION=2.4.0
++ WM_PROJECT_VERSION=2.4.0
++ foamInstall=/home/andrea/OpenFOAM
++ : /home/andrea/OpenFOAM
++ export FOAM_INST_DIR
++ foamCompiler=system
++ export WM_COMPILER=Gcc
++ WM_COMPILER=Gcc
++ unset WM_COMPILER_ARCH WM_COMPILER_LIB_ARCH
++ export WM_ARCH_OPTION=64
++ WM_ARCH_OPTION=64
++ export WM_PRECISION_OPTION=DP
++ WM_PRECISION_OPTION=DP
++ export WM_COMPILE_OPTION=Opt
++ WM_COMPILE_OPTION=Opt
++ export WM_MPLIB=SYSTEMOPENMPI
++ WM_MPLIB=SYSTEMOPENMPI
++ export WM_OSTYPE=POSIX
++ WM_OSTYPE=POSIX
++ export FOAM_SIGFPE=
++ FOAM_SIGFPE=
++ foamOldDirs='/home/andrea/OpenFOAM  /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/andrea'
++ '[' '' '!=' /home/andrea/OpenFOAM ']'
++ foamOldDirs=' /home/andrea/OpenFOAM  /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/andrea'
++ export WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR=/home/andrea/OpenFOAM
++ WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR=/home/andrea/OpenFOAM
++ export WM_PROJECT_DIR=/home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0
++ WM_PROJECT_DIR=/home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0
++ export WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR=/home/andrea/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-2.4.0
++ WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR=/home/andrea/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-2.4.0
++ '[' -d '' ']'
++ unset WM_PROJECT_SITE
++ export WM_PROJECT_USER_DIR=/home/andrea/OpenFOAM/andrea-2.4.0
++ WM_PROJECT_USER_DIR=/home/andrea/OpenFOAM/andrea-2.4.0
+++ /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/bin/foamEtcFile prefs.sh
++ _foamSource
++ '[' 0 -ge 1 ']'
++ export FOAM_SETTINGS=
++ FOAM_SETTINGS=
++ _foamEval
++ '[' 0 -gt 0 ']'
++ foamClean=/home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/bin/foamCleanPath
+++ /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/bin/foamCleanPath /opt/GTI/bin:/usr/lib64/mpi/gcc/openmpi/bin:/home/andrea/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin ' /home/andrea/OpenFOAM  /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/andrea'
++ cleaned=/opt/GTI/bin:/usr/lib64/mpi/gcc/openmpi/bin:/home/andrea/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin
++ PATH=/opt/GTI/bin:/usr/lib64/mpi/gcc/openmpi/bin:/home/andrea/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin
+++ /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/bin/foamCleanPath /usr/lib64/mpi/gcc/openmpi/lib64 ' /home/andrea/OpenFOAM  /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/andrea'
++ cleaned=/usr/lib64/mpi/gcc/openmpi/lib64
++ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib64/mpi/gcc/openmpi/lib64
+++ /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/bin/foamCleanPath /usr/lib64/mpi/gcc/openmpi/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man ' /home/andrea/OpenFOAM  /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/andrea'
++ cleaned=/usr/lib64/mpi/gcc/openmpi/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man
++ MANPATH=/usr/lib64/mpi/gcc/openmpi/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man
++ export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH MANPATH
++ _foamSource /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc/config/settings.sh
++ '[' 1 -ge 1 ']'
++ '[' '' -a '$(ppwd \l)\u@\h:\w> ' ']'
++ cd . /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc/config/settings.sh
++ shift
++ '[' 0 -ge 1 ']'
++ _foamSource /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc/config/aliases.sh
++ '[' 1 -ge 1 ']'
++ '[' '' -a '$(ppwd \l)\u@\h:\w> ' ']'
++ cd . /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc/config/aliases.sh
++ shift
++ '[' 0 -ge 1 ']'
+++ /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/bin/foamEtcFile config/paraview.sh
++ _foamSource /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc/config/paraview.sh
++ '[' 1 -ge 1 ']'
++ '[' '' -a '$(ppwd \l)\u@\h:\w> ' ']'
++ cd . /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc/config/paraview.sh
++ shift
++ '[' 0 -ge 1 ']'
+++ /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/bin/foamEtcFile config/ensight.sh
++ _foamSource /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc/config/ensight.sh
++ '[' 1 -ge 1 ']'
++ '[' '' -a '$(ppwd \l)\u@\h:\w> ' ']'
++ cd . /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc/config/ensight.sh
++ shift
++ '[' 0 -ge 1 ']'
+++ /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/bin/foamEtcFile config/gperftools.sh
++ _foamSource /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc/config/gperftools.sh
++ '[' 1 -ge 1 ']'
++ '[' '' -a '$(ppwd \l)\u@\h:\w> ' ']'
++ cd . /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc/config/gperftools.sh
++ shift
++ '[' 0 -ge 1 ']'
+++ /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/bin/foamEtcFile config/CGAL.sh
++ _foamSource /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc/config/CGAL.sh
++ '[' 1 -ge 1 ']'
++ '[' '' -a '$(ppwd \l)\u@\h:\w> ' ']'
++ cd . /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc/config/CGAL.sh
++ shift
++ '[' 0 -ge 1 ']'
+++ /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/bin/foamCleanPath /opt/GTI/bin:/usr/lib64/mpi/gcc/openmpi/bin:/home/andrea/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin
++ cleaned=/opt/GTI/bin:/usr/lib64/mpi/gcc/openmpi/bin:/home/andrea/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin
++ PATH=/opt/GTI/bin:/usr/lib64/mpi/gcc/openmpi/bin:/home/andrea/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin
+++ /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/bin/foamCleanPath /usr/lib64/mpi/gcc/openmpi/lib64
++ cleaned=/usr/lib64/mpi/gcc/openmpi/lib64
++ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib64/mpi/gcc/openmpi/lib64
+++ /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/bin/foamCleanPath /usr/lib64/mpi/gcc/openmpi/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man
++ cleaned=/usr/lib64/mpi/gcc/openmpi/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:
++ MANPATH=/usr/lib64/mpi/gcc/openmpi/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:
++ export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH MANPATH
++ '[' -n '' ']'
++ unset cleaned foamClean foamInstall foamOldDirs
++ unset _foamSource _foamEval

PS: in any case, I've updated bash

GNU bash, version 4.3.30(1)-release (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Thanks for your support.

Andrea

[wyldckat]

Hi Andrea,

I believe I have solved the mystery and the reason why no bash version could possibly ever save us from this issue... unless the command alias simply wasn't supported in that particular version.

The tell-tale signs are as follows:

1. The "PATH" and "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" variables haven't changed before and after sourcing OpenFOAM's "etc/bashrc" file.
2. The "log.source" file gives us this strange output, along with similar ones:
   

   ++ _foamSource /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc/config/settings.sh
   ++ '[' 1 -ge 1 ']'
   ++ '[' '' -a '$(ppwd \l)\u@\h:\w> ' ']'
   ++ cd . /home/andrea/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc/config/settings.sh

3. Don't see the problem? Notice this in the last line:
   

   cd .

   Well, the dot alone is an internal alias for "source". But the problem is that you have another alias defined by default somewhere else that has something like this:
   

   alias .='cd .'

   The result? Well, the "." is broken and lost its original meaning.

As for a solution for this... well, it strongly depends on whether you need this cd alias for the dot . The simple solution is to simply annihilate the dot alias you have defined, as that is the origin of many similar problems, specially within OpenFOAM's way of dealing with the shell.


edit: Sorry, forgot to mention the other solution: Edit the file "etc/bashrc" in OpenFOAM and look for this block of code:

# Source files, possibly with some verbosity
_foamSource()
{
    while [ $# -ge 1 ]
    do
        [ "$FOAM_VERBOSE" -a "$PS1" ] && echo "Sourcing: $1" 1>&2
        . $1
       shift
    done
}

And change this line:

. $1

to this:

\. $1

Best regards,
Bruno

[Blanco]

Bruno, you're definetely a master!
You have solved my problem, the "." alias was the source of it...OF it's now compiling properly. I have deleted that alias in order to restore the original source definition in bash.

Thanks again a lot for your support and for the effort you put into this topic.
If you'll ever come to Italy in Turin, I'll treat you to a beer!
Best regards,

Andrea