Small Subset of Failed Tests Following Install. XDR Tests Failing.

[Supernova963]

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Hello,

While trying to install MOOSE on an HPC I had to remove the following line from "configure_libmesh.sh"

--enable-xdr-required \

With this line in the script, the install would fail. After removal the install proceeds without any issues including

./ run_tests - j#

Following completion of the tests

4939 passed, 451 skipped, 12 FAILED

Which seems pretty good except for the 12 FAILED. The failed tests are included, my question is what do these tests verify and how important are they? If they are integral to many simulations then it would be required for. I know any failed tests are an issue and we plan to look into solutions to the failed tests, but I am wondering right now if I can start working on simulations and just avoid the impacted objects.

(Optional) code in question / simulation log / errors

shell
outputs/format.xdr_output .................................................................. FAILED (EXIT CODE 1 != 0)
fvkernels/split-mesh.prereq ................................................................ FAILED (EXIT CODE 1 != 0)
outputs/xda_xdr.both_xda_and_xdr ........................................................... FAILED (EXIT CODE 1 != 0)
outputs/xda.group/xdr ...................................................................... FAILED (EXIT CODE 1 != 0)
meshgenerators/file_mesh_generator.iga_constraint_matrix_1d .............................. FAILED (EXIT CODE 127 != 0)
meshgenerators/file_mesh_generator.iga_constraint_matrix_1d_preconditioned ............... FAILED (EXIT CODE 127 != 0)
meshgenerators/file_mesh_generator.iga_constraint_matrix_hdf5 ............................ FAILED (EXIT CODE 127 != 0)
auxkernels/solution_aux.aux_nonlinear_solution/build ....................................... FAILED (EXIT CODE 1 != 0)
materials/output.output_types/xdr .......................................................... FAILED (EXIT CODE 1 != 0)
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split ..................................................... FAILED (EXIT CODE 1 != 0)
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split ........................................... [min_cpus=4] FAILED (EXIT CODE 1 != 0)
postprocessors/num_elems.test_split ........................................... [min_cpus=4] FAILED (EXIT CODE 1 != 0)

[GiudGiud]

Hello

You can always use the non-binary XDA format to replace any functionality that XDR was meant to provide.

Are you planning to use isogeometric analysis?

Are you planning to run really large case that require pre-splitting the mesh?

[Supernova963]

I am running the ex01_inputfile code to verify those instructions.

I split the mesh using

/ex01-opt -i ex01.i --split-mesh 32

and ran using

mpiexec -n 32 ex01-opt -i ex01.i --use-split

And the simulation converged without error messages.

[GiudGiud]

ok should be good then.
If you want to send me the failed test output I can still take a look

./run_tests -j 10 --failed-tests

then everything that shows in that log

[Supernova963]

I couldn't find an output file.

Parsing application capabilities... 3.02 seconds
Parsing tests in /p/home/crobin/projects/moose/test... 13.60 seconds
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: Test spec: /p/home/crobin/projects/moose/test/tests/mesh/checkpoint/tests:24
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: Working directory: /p/home/crobin/projects/moose/test/tests/mesh/checkpoint
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: Running command: /usr/bin/time -o /p/home/crobin/projects/moose/test/tests/mesh/checkpoint/test_2a_generate_split.testharness_time -f '%P' -q /p/home/crobin/projects/moose/test/moose_test-opt -i checkpoint_split.i --split-mesh 2 --split-file checkpoint_split_in.cpr --disable-perf-graph-live --error --error-override --compute-device=cpu
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: Environment variable(s):
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split:   OMP_NUM_THREADS="1"
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: ################################################################################
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: Begin runner_run output
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: Splitting 2 ways...
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split:     - writing 2 files per process...
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: *** ERROR ***
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: The following occurred in the main Application of type MooseTestApp.
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: ERROR: Functionality is not available.
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: Make sure LIBMESH_HAVE_XDR is defined at build time
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: The XDR interface is not available in this installation
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: Stack frames: 14
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 0: libMesh::print_trace(std::ostream&)
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 1: libMesh::MacroFunctions::report_error(char const*, int, char const*, char const*, std::ostream&)
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 2: libMesh::Xdr::open(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >)
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 3: libMesh::Xdr::Xdr(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >, libMesh::XdrMODE)
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 4: libMesh::CheckpointIO::write(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 5: SplitMeshAction::act()
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 6: Action::timedAct()
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 7: ActionWarehouse::executeActionsWithAction(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 8: ActionWarehouse::executeAllActions()
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 9: MooseApp::runInputFile()
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 10: MooseApp::run()
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 11: /p/home/crobin/projects/moose/test/moose_test-opt() [0x4053b9]
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 12: __libc_start_main
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 13: /p/home/crobin/projects/moose/test/moose_test-opt() [0x40562e]
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: [0] ../src/utils/xdr_cxx.C, line 188, compiled Mar 17 2026 at 10:01:19
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: Stack frames: 8
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 0: libMesh::print_trace(std::ostream&)
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 1: moose::internal::mooseErrorRaw(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >, std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, hit::Node const*)
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 2: MooseBase::callMooseError(MooseApp*, InputParameters const&, std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >, bool, hit::Node const*)
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 3: MooseBase::callMooseError(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >, bool, hit::Node const*) const
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 4: /p/home/crobin/projects/moose/framework/libmoose-opt.so.0(+0x124193d) [0x1551113b293d]
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 5: /p/home/crobin/projects/moose/test/moose_test-opt() [0x4053b9]
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 6: __libc_start_main
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 7: /p/home/crobin/projects/moose/test/moose_test-opt() [0x40562e]
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: --------------------------------------------------------------------------
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: MPI_ABORT was invoked on rank 0 in communicator MPI_COMM_WORLD
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: with errorcode 1.
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: NOTE: invoking MPI_ABORT causes Open MPI to kill all MPI processes.
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: You may or may not see output from other processes, depending on
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: exactly when Open MPI kills them.
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: --------------------------------------------------------------------------
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: ################################################################################
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: End runner_run output
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: ################################################################################
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: Begin tester output
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: Exit Code: 1
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: Tester failed, reason: EXIT CODE 1 != 0
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: ################################################################################
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: End tester output
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split: 
mesh/checkpoint.test_2a_generate_split ..... [previous results: EXIT CODE 1 != 0] FAILED (EXIT CODE 1 != 0)
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: Test spec: /p/home/crobin/projects/moose/test/tests/postprocessors/num_nodes/tests:13
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: Working directory: /p/home/crobin/projects/moose/test/tests/postprocessors/num_nodes
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: Running command: /usr/bin/time -o /p/home/crobin/projects/moose/test/tests/postprocessors/num_nodes/test_split.testharness_time -f '%P' -q mpiexec -n 4 /p/home/crobin/projects/moose/test/moose_test-opt -i num_nodes.i --use-split --split-file generated.cpr Outputs/file_base=num_nodes_split_out --disable-perf-graph-live --error --error-override --compute-device=cpu
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: Environment variable(s):
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split:   OMP_NUM_THREADS="1"
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: 
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: ################################################################################
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: Begin runner_run output
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: 
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: 
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: *** ERROR ***
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: The following occurred in the main Application of type MooseTestApp.
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: 
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: ERROR: Functionality is not available.
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: Make sure LIBMESH_HAVE_XDR is defined at build time
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: The XDR interface is not available in this installation
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: [0] ../src/utils/xdr_cxx.C, line 188, compiled Mar 17 2026 at 10:01:19
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: 
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: 
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: --------------------------------------------------------------------------
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: MPI_ABORT was invoked on rank 0 in communicator MPI_COMM_WORLD
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: with errorcode 1.
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: 
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: NOTE: invoking MPI_ABORT causes Open MPI to kill all MPI processes.
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: You may or may not see output from other processes, depending on
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: exactly when Open MPI kills them.
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: --------------------------------------------------------------------------
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: 
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: ################################################################################
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: End runner_run output
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: 
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: ################################################################################
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: Begin tester output
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: 
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: Exit Code: 1
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: 
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: 
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: Tester failed, reason: EXIT CODE 1 != 0
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: 
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: ################################################################################
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: End tester output
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split: 
postprocessors/num_nodes.test_split [min_cpus=4,previous results: EXIT CODE 1...] FAILED (EXIT CODE 1 != 0)
Killed

[GiudGiud]

ok this is all XDR.
If the functionality becomes needed you can rebuild without removing --enable-xdr-required from the script, and install libtirpc-devel and maybe also add it to the LD_FLAGS