MOOSE Compile Problem

[joe61vette]

Hello: this is a first. I have never had MOOSE fail to compile before.

System is a MacBook Pro running 10.14.6
Xcode version 10.2.1

First, I updated my moose environment via conda.

I cloned moose into ~/projects/moose

I only needed the NS app, so:

(moose) joe$ cd /Users/joe/projects/moose/modules/navier_stokes
(moose) joe$ make -j6

It ran for a while but then I get an error:

In file included from /Users/joe/projects/moose/framework/build/unity_src/mesh_Unity.C:9:
/Users/joe/projects/moose/framework/src/mesh/MooseMesh.C:2491:12: error: no member named 'set_isnt_prepared' in 'libMesh::MeshBase'
_mesh->set_isnt_prepared();
~~~~~ ^
/Users/joe/projects/moose/framework/src/mesh/MooseMesh.C:2797:28: error: too many arguments to function call, expected at most single argument 'os', have 2 arguments
getMesh().print_info(os, verbosity);

/Users/jmkelly/miniconda3/envs/moose/libmesh/include/libmesh/mesh_base.h:1193:3: note: 'print_info' declared here
void print_info (std::ostream & os=libMesh::out) const;
^
2 errors generated.
make: *** [/Users/joe/projects/moose/framework/build/unity_src/mesh_Unity.x86_64-apple-darwin19.5.0.opt.lo] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

Any suggestions?  The entire terminal output is attached.  Thanks,
Joe Kelly
[compile_error.txt](https://github.com/idaholab/moose/files/6039126/compile_error.txt)

[cticenhour]

This is probably due to an old copy of libmesh, caused by a failure of conda to update past a certain version.

What is the version number for moose-libmesh when you perform the command conda list? If that version number leads with 2020.12.xx then we need to force the update to the newest version. In your moose environment, run the command conda install moose-libmesh=2021.02.15 which will force an update to the newest version of libmesh. Then perform a clean (make clobberall) and try to make again.

TL;DR on the thread below:

This ended up being three main things...
(1) An out-of-date moose-libmesh package causing the original compile issue
(2) An out-of-date conda channel (https://mooseframework.org/conda/moose) which needed to be updated to idaholab
(3) root user ownership of ~/.conda, which needs to be owned by the regular user in order to manipulate environments.

As a general reminder to all users - do not use sudo while making changes or updates to conda if it is installed in your home directory! It can cause permissions issues that can lead to a broken or partially-broken conda installation.

[cticenhour]

Ah, the page just updated so I could see your message. Let's change your channels!

Run conda config --remove channels https://mooseframework.org/conda/moose and then
conda config --add channels idaholab

Then try to create the environment again.

[joe61vette]

Thanks Casey & Jason. Appears to be working now. It is downloading moose-tools at the moment. Once it finishes, I'll go back to my clone of moose and try to compile. Ah, it just finished. Here goes...

[joe61vette]

And it compiled!! Thanks so much for the help! Can you mark this as "answered"?

[cticenhour]

I can - I will edit to expand on my original answer to make sure folks know that in this case, it was also a permissions issue.

[joe61vette]

Great. Thanks again Casey!