Comments on: Abaqus 6.6 on Debian Etch (amd64 port)

By: Mike Renfro

Mike Renfro — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:11:47 +0000

To put it simply, host zenith-0f7013bc isn’t running an Abaqus license server on port 27003. Maybe it should be, or maybe the license server is on a different system entirely.

If you’re not the first Abaqus installation at your location, then find out who’s done the previous installations, and ask them what they used for the license server. This error isn’t specific to amd64, Debian, or any particular version of Abaqus. It’s not even specific to Abaqus.

By: vinod

vinod — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:13:41 +0000

I am getting an error while starting Abaqus CAE
“The desired vendor daemon is down.
Check the lmgrd log file, or try lmreread.
Feature: cae
Vendor:Host: zenith-0f7013bc
License path: 27003@zenith-0f7013bc
FLEXnet Licensing error:-97,121
For further information, refer to the ABAQUS Installation and Licensing Guide,
or contact your ABAQUS Inc. representative.
ABAQUS Error: ABAQUS/CAE Kernel exited with an error.”
Kindly Help to solve the problem.

By: Walking Randomly » Abaqus installation problems on 64 bit Linux

Walking Randomly » Abaqus installation problems on 64 bit Linux — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:53:03 +0000

[...] a bit of googling, I discovered this post which gave an explanation of the problem along with a solution. The important part is [...]

By: Mike Renfro

Mike Renfro — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:08:18 +0000

I’m not that experienced, really. Most of my interaction is in helping students get their models built. But it seems that the FEA specialists here tend to end up using Abaqus, and that matches a much earlier experience I saw when I was on co-op at Oak Ridge National Laboratory many years ago. Regular B.S. engineers used ANSYS, COSMOS, or whatever, since most of their time was spent doing CAD and design work. The M.S. and PhD guys that were full-time in FEA used Abaqus. Make of that what you will.

By: AlexVader

AlexVader — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:01:28 +0000

Thx for your answer

Ok, now that i have made all upgrades, i’ll give it one more try…

One different question now…:

Since you are an experienced engineer/designer what would you advise me to use as a FEA tool?
Abaqus or Ansys Multiphyscis ?
Which one do you think is the best… ?

Alex

By: Mike Renfro

Mike Renfro — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:30:51 +0000

Alex, I was going to point you to this thread on Ubuntuforums that another person having trouble with Ubuntu pointed me at, but I see you’re already there, and talking to him already.

But I’ll tell you the same basic things I told him: I don’t have any Ubuntu later than 7.04, and I’d guess that your error either has to do with the Compiz problem he had, or with OpenGL. I have the ATI drivers loaded on the Ubuntu system I manage, and CAE appears to work fine. The -mesa flag should also work on most any X server, but obviously the graphics won’t be as responsive if you’re trying to do major 3D renderings.

But the majority of my Abaqus users fall into two categories: 1) Windows users, 2) people who submit Abaqus jobs into our compute nodes. I’m not even much of an Abaqus user myself.

I honestly only wrote up this page originally so that anyone trying to do an amd64 install wouldn’t get as irritated as I did hacking around their inapplicable system checks, and wondering why on earth they’d attach a binary to the end of a shell script, of all things.

By: AlexVader

AlexVader — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:00:42 +0000

Hi again,

By the way Mike,

Should you answer to my comment, pls do it to this mail i am using now…

The other one (bakali_1st@…) is rather spammy… and i am afraid of carelessly having already deleted any reply…

Thanks again…

Alex

By: AlexVader

AlexVader — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:13:38 +0000

Hi Mike,

I have found this blog rather interesting, since, I am trying to install Abaqus 6.7-1 in a Debian family distro;

I finally got the courage to install Ubuntu in my DualBooter laptop.
On first impression i may say that Gutsy scored quite well, its a bit weird but, reckoned all my hardware out of the box… i have an Asus F3Jr.

The issue is that although i can install most of my engineering software over Ubuntu 7.10, CFD codes, Matlab, Ansys, i still cannot install Abaqus over it, and i am starting to like this distro ( Ubuntu Adiction Syndrome hahahah )

Anyway,

1. I installed all the shells from synaptics so that i could launch the installer,
2 I installed termcap packages so that the doc installer wouldn’t complain,
3 After having intalled the documentation, I launche the doc server.
4 proceeded to install the application WITHOUT making any upgrade in Gutsy, and
5 installed the app with the –nosystemcheck option, since Gutsy is not a supported distro.
6 Installed the License manager
7 started the LM,
8 Intalled the Abaqus product.

when i launch /usr/local/abaqus/command/abaqus , it allows me to define a job, and runs it, but when i launch /usr/local/abaqus/command/abaqus cae, the application crashes with a cae kernel error.

So… could you pleas tell me what have i done wrong…?
Some ppl state that it is possible to run Abaqus 6.7-1 in interactive mode under Ubuntu 7.10, and i really would love to be able to quit MS W”#$5&/Z once and for all… it all depends on being able to work with my tools in Linux…. and Abaqus is the most important one…

Thanks for your time

Alex

By: Mike Renfro

Mike Renfro — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:34:15 +0000

Right. I had forgotten about the -mesa flag — we ran into the same problem when running Abaqus to a remote X display managed by Hummingbird Exceed on Windows.

By: Dimitrios Eftaxiopou

Dimitrios Eftaxiopou — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:57:26 +0000

The solution to the Xerror is to run abaqus cae with the -mesa option

abaqus cae -mesa