The fluent application failed to start

- March 10, 2020 at 11:28 am
  
  GauthamVR91
  Subscriber
  
  Hello, I am running the ANSYS 2020 R1 student version. The geometry and the mesh files work perfectly but when I try to open the fluent the error keeps popping up that the fluent application failed to start. The first line of the fluent command prompt is unable to connect to the external socket. I don't know why such an error keeps repeating. Hope you can help me.
  
  Regards,
  
  Gautham
- March 10, 2020 at 8:18 pm
  
  RK
  Ansys Employee
  
  Hi Gautham,
  
  Does the error repeat after restarting the application?
  
  Regards,
  
  Rahul
- March 10, 2020 at 8:22 pm
  
  GauthamVR91
  Subscriber
  
  Hello,
  
  Yes I restarted it, uninstalled the Ansys student and then deleted the entire folder and reinstalled and then again I tried and the same issue keeps persisting. I also tried giving permission to my firewall and the problem still persists. As far as I know fluent is the only software that shows this issue while trying to open.
- March 10, 2020 at 8:32 pm
  
  RK
  Ansys Employee
  
  What is the error message that you get when you start fluent?
- March 10, 2020 at 8:35 pm
  
  GauthamVR91
  Subscriber
  
  it says "unable to connect to external socket: error during socket creation"
  
  Regards,
  
  Gautham
- March 10, 2020 at 8:40 pm
  
  RK
  Ansys Employee
  
  Please check this thread and see if you can find any solution.
  
  /forum/forums/topic/fluent-application-failed-to-start-2/
- March 10, 2020 at 8:47 pm
  
  GauthamVR91
  Subscriber
  
  The issue they keep saying that they were using the VPN from cisco. i am not using it i am using my home wifi in order to connect online so i dont know how they might have any issue with it.
- March 10, 2020 at 8:49 pm
  
  RK
  Ansys Employee
  
  There was also a suggestion on thread to open fluent from the components and then connecting it to the mesh. Did you try that?
- March 10, 2020 at 9:04 pm
  
  GauthamVR91
  Subscriber
  
  Hello when I tried to run the command "ping%computername% -4"
  I got he following results which is different from what he got. Could this be the problem?
  Is there anything I can do about this ?
  "Pinging GAUTHAM-VARMA-X with 32 bytes of data
  General fail
  General fail
  General fail
  General fail
  
  Ping statistics for 192.168.1.188:
  Packets :sent =4, Received =0, Lost =4(100%loss)"
- March 11, 2020 at 8:45 am
  
  GauthamVR91
  Subscriber
  
  hello, I would appreciate advice for my previous post as soon as possible thank you really much.
  
  Regards,
  
  Gautham
- March 11, 2020 at 1:31 pm
  
  RK
  Ansys Employee
  
  Hello Gautham, can you please try running fluent as a stand alone mode and check if that works?