openfoam error - can't write to file

Hi,

I have installed caelinux2010 and everything ran smoothly. However, when I tried to run openfoam, there's problems.

1st of all, "cd $FOAM_RUN/tutorials/incompressible/icoFoam/cavity" can't work.

I still managed to get into the directory.

I was told in the manual to enter the direcotconstant/polyMesh. The "blockMeshDict" file is there but when I run "blockMesh", I got the error:

caelinux@caelinux:~$ cd /opt/openfoam170/tutorials/incompressible/icoFoam/
cavity/ cavityClipped/ cavityGrade/ elbow/
caelinux@caelinux:~$ cd /opt/openfoam170/tutorials/incompressible/icoFoam/cavitycaelinux@caelinux:/opt/openfoam170/tutorials/incompressible/icoFoam/cavity$ cd constant/polyMesh/
caelinux@caelinux:/opt/openfoam170/tutorials/incompressible/icoFoam/cavity/constant/polyMesh$ blockMesh
/*

---

*\
| ========= | |
| \ / F ield | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox |
| \ / O peration | Version: 1.7.0 |
| \ / A nd | Web: www.OpenFOAM.com |
| \/ M anipulation | |
\*

---

*/
Build : 1.7.0-113391ee57bd
Exec : blockMesh
Date : Nov 01 2010
Time : 11:32:19
Host : caelinux
PID : 4431
Case : /opt/openfoam170/tutorials/incompressible/icoFoam/cavity/constant/polyMesh
nProcs : 1
SigFpe : Enabling floating point exception trapping (FOAM_SIGFPE).

// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //
Create time



--> FOAM FATAL IO ERROR:
cannot open file

file: /opt/openfoam170/tutorials/incompressible/icoFoam/cavity/constant/polyMesh/system/controlDict at line 0.

From function regIOobject::readStream()
in file db/regIOobject/regIOobjectRead.C at line 61.

FOAM exiting

Do you know what's wrong?

Thank you!

Hi I tried but it still can't work.

I haev check write access to the blockMeshDict file. However, the problem is:

Build : 1.7.0-113391ee57bd
Exec : blockMesh
Date : Nov 02 2010
Time : 11:40:40
Host : caelinux
PID : 6753
Case : /home/caelinux/OpenFOAM/openfoam170/tutorials/incompressible/icoFoam/cavity/constant/polyMesh
nProcs : 1
SigFpe : Enabling floating point exception trapping (FOAM_SIGFPE).

// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //
Create time



--> FOAM FATAL IO ERROR:
cannot open file

file: /home/caelinux/OpenFOAM/openfoam170/tutorials/incompressible/icoFoam/cavity/constant/polyMesh/system/controlDict at line 0.

From function regIOobject::readStream()
in file db/regIOobject/regIOobjectRead.C at line 61.

FOAM exiting

The file which has problem is the controlDict file which is not found.

Yup it finally worked! thanks!