TUFLOW crashing

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Introduction

From time to time TUFLOW simulations can crash. There are multiple reasons why this would happen. This page can be used as a guide to find and rectify the cause of the crash.

Troubleshooting Tips

• Restart the modelling machine.
• Use the latest TUFLOW release.
• Check the end of .tlf file for error message.
• Test running the model on a different machine.
• Save all outputs (checks, results and logs) to a local drive to determine if network is causing the issue.
• Monitor if the issue is happening to a single model only or every model, at specific time during the simulation or randomly.

TUFLOW simulation DOS window doesn't even start

Problem might be in the filepath of TUFLOW executable in the batch file.

TUFLOW crashes during model initialisation

• This crash might be connected to an erroneous input data or an error in the control files:
  • Insert "pause" at the end of the batch file to keep the DOS window open and be able to see the issue. If there is no clear indication of what the cause might be, send a snapshot of the DOS window and .tlf to support@tuflow.com.
  • Let the console window be written to a text file, e.g. “TUFLOW.exe my_model.tcf > dump.txt” to check the control file/GIS layer written just above the error.
• If multiple large models are initialising at the same time, this could cause a memory overload and stop the simulations. Try inserting "timeout xxx" in the batch file between the runs to spread them out, where xxx is a number of seconds to wait for the next run to start.
  

TUFLOW crashes randomly at any time during the simulation

This can happen when TUFLOW is writing results out to a network drive and the computer loses connection to the network. This applies to Windows 10, 8, 7 operating system. With Windows XP, the simulation would only pause and restart itself when the access to the network drive is back on. The difference in the behaviour is unfortunately based on the operating system and as far as we are aware we are unable to do anything within the TUFLOW code to handle this situation.
To prevent this from occurring, we recommend you set a local drive as the output drive using .tcf command such as “Output Drive ==”. If you wish to immediately have the results copied back to the network drive at the simulation end, Robocopy can be added to the end of the .bat file. Example of such batch file is in the attachment.
Should the cause for the crash not be due to the network failure, then please contact support@tuflow.com, attaching the .tlf file.

@echo off

set TUFLOWEXE_iSP=O:\TUFLOW\Releases\2020-01\2020-01-AB\TUFLOW_iSP_w64.exe
set RUN_iSP=start "TUFLOW" /wait "%TUFLOWEXE_iSP%" -b

set A=5m 2.5m
set B=EXG DEV
set source_results=D:\TUFLOW\results
set source_log=D:\TUFLOW\runs
set destination_results=O:\TUFLOW\support\results
set destination_log=O:\TUFLOW\support\runs

FOR %%a in (%A%) do (
	FOR %%b in (%B%) do (
		:: Run model
		echo Running Cell Size %%a Model Scenario %%b
		%RUN_iSP% -s1 %%a -s2 %%b M10_~s1~_~s2~_003.tcf
		
		:: Move results folder to different location
        robocopy "%source_results%" "%destination_results%" /e /move
        
        :: Move log folder to different location
        robocopy "%source_log%" "%destination_log%" /e /move
        timeout 5
	)
)
pause

TUFLOW is crashing at the same/similar time of the day

This could be connected to the licence allocation. Something might be preventing the simulation from writing to network drive such as backup, deduplication or other scheduled processes. TUFLOW is not releasing the licence at the end of the simulation, rather CodeMeter system is determining that the TUFLOW application is no longer running and is therefore releasing the licence - this would show as “Handle xxx automatically released. The application is no longer available.” in the cmDust file.

TUFLOW crashes at the end of the simulation before writing out maximum results

Most likely the output drive doesn't have enough free space to write out the full results. If it does, insert "pause" at the end of the batch file to keep the DOS window open and send a snapshot of this window and .tlf to support@tuflow.com.

TUFLOW can't find a valid licence

This section explains non-technical issues with licence. For technical issues please see https://wiki.tuflow.com/index.php?title=Wibu_Dongles#Troubleshooting To confirm the licence is the issue can be found in the .tlf.