Running Ansys Mechanical in Linux OS – “An error occurred”

[pinhanch]

Hello,

I am trying to run a directional deformation simulation using Ansys Mechanical 2025R2 on a linux workstation, however, I ran into the error as below:

Following the discussion from this post: https://innovationspace.ansys.com/forum/forums/topic/ansys-mechanical-an-error-occurred-while-starting-the-solver-module/

I have confirmed that I have enough memory, gpu, cpu, and disk space. The folders I installed, run, or save the files are not on an external or a network drive.

I have also checked the network connection or firework restriction, and it shows that there did exist connection between my workstation and the license server. 

I have also tried "unchecking the distribute box", but it still doesn't work.

I am wondering if it's because of the OS issue, may I know if there is any compatibility issue of running Ansys Mechanical on Linux OS?

It would be great if I could have any suggestions to possibly troubleshooting this issue.

Thank you for your help in advance.

 

Best Regards,

pinhanch

[peteroznewman]

I get that error on a Windows OS when I am inserting APDL Command Objects that has a mistake in the code.  Your error likely has nothing to do with the Linux OS and something wrong with your model.  I expect if you archived that project and tried to run it on Windows OS, you would get the same error.

Click on the Solution Information folder and look at the Solver Output. Type Ctrl F and search for ERROR.  Read what it says.

Do a very simple cantilever beam model to demonstrate that the Linux OS is working.