Frequently asked questions

Windows only: `ogs`` or any of its tools cannot open an existing file with a long path

Windows has a default path length limit of 260 characters. Especially in workflows this limit can be exceeded easily. To enable long paths on Windows you need to alter the Windows registry which requires administrative user privileges:

• Open a PowerShell command prompt as an Administrator

• Run the following script:

  New-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem" -Name "LongPathsEnabled" -Value 1 -PropertyType DWORD -Force

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• You may have to restart the computer

XSDError: Loaded schema file is invalid error encountered when running DataExplorer

You may encounter the following error (or similar) on opening .gml, .cnd, std or .prj files in the Data Explorer or file conversion tools (e.g., OGSFileConverter):

Error message:

Error XSDError in http://www.opengeosys.org/images/xsd/OpenGeoSysCND.xsd, at line 1, column 1: Start tag expected.
Error XSDError in file:///../bc/well.cnd, at line 5, column 195: Loaded schema file is invalid.
XMLInterface::isValid() - XML File is invalid (in reference to schema ./OpenGeoSysCND.xsd).
Error XSDError in http://www.opengeosys.org/images/xsd/OpenGeoSysCND.xsd, at line 1, column 1: Start tag expected.

Solution:

Open the affected file (e.g. well.cnd in this case) in a text editor and remove the following parameter of the XML root element (the first element in < >-brackets in the element, e.g. <OpenGeoSysCND>):

xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://www.opengeosys.org/images/xsd/OpenGeoSysXXX.xsd"

where XXX can be CND, GLI, PRJ or STN depending on the file type.

Now, save the modified file and try to load it again.

Oh, no! It diverges

OpenGeoSys will sometimes crash with an error message stating, that it couldn’t reduce the time step any more. There are several things that can be done to solve this:

• In Time loop adjust time stepping allowing smaller time steps to be taken.
• In Time loop adjust the error tolerance
• Check if mesh quality is sufficient
• Verify if all parameters, especially those that vary during the simulation, make physical sense throughout the whole experiment and combined with other parameters.

Oh, no! There are NaNs everywhere

If in the output log all values are NaN and one or more parameters were defined as functions, there is a good chance that a division by zero, or other undefined operation happened.