The following occurred in the Output 'checkpoint' of type Checkpoint. Error during the deletion of checkpoint file

[YohanWithanage]

Hello,

I am getting following error.
"The following occurred in the Output 'checkpoint' of type Checkpoint.

Error during the deletion of checkpoint file"

Even if I set,

[Outputs]
  time_step_interval = 5
  exodus = true
  checkpoint = false
  file_base = 'aniso_ND'
[]

It still creates a restarts directory and gives the error. How to fix this?

Thanks,
Yohan

[GiudGiud]

Hello

This might be coming from the automatic wall time based checkpoint. Can you disable that one too?
See this page
https://mooseframework.inl.gov/source/actions/AutoCheckpointAction.html

[GiudGiud]

Even if that fixes it, it is still odd to get a file deletion error. \what other features do you have in this simulation? Adaptivity? Fixed point iterations?

[YohanWithanage]

I dont have Adaptivity or Fixed Point Iterations.

Please see the below sections.

[Preconditioning]
  [./SMP]
    type = SMP
    full = true
  [../]
[]

[Executioner]
  type = Transient
  scheme = bdf2
  solve_type = PJFNK
  petsc_options_iname = '-pc_type -pc_hypre_type -ksp_gmres_restart'
  petsc_options_value = 'hypre    boomeramg      31'

  nl_abs_tol = 1e-10
  nl_rel_tol = 1e-08
  l_max_its = 30

  end_time = 1
  dt = 0.0005
[]

[Outputs]
  time_step_interval = 5
  exodus = true
  checkpoint = false
  file_base = 'aniso_ND'
[]

[GiudGiud]

Nothing weird there.
Did turning off the wall time checkpoints work to remove the error?

[YohanWithanage]

It works fine after turning off wall time checkpoints.