The name of the Omega mesh file should be read from the config YAML file, not hard-coded: https://github.com/E3SM-Project/Omega/blob/ba2f369f15675152bffa3aad038e41bc0feac3ee/components/omega/src/base/Decomp.h#L267 Polaris has to make symlinks with this name that should ideally not be necessary.