Error running LinearProblem on poisson demo on MacOS-conda env

I am using the provided dolfinx conda env on macOS with the following dependencies :

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I am getting the following error once getting to the linearProblem:

Exception ignored in: <function LinearProblem.__del__ at 0x172d884a0>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/Hawraa_1/opt/anaconda3/envs/fenicsx-env/lib/python3.11/site-packages/dolfinx/fem/petsc.py", line 831, in __del__
    self._solver.destroy()
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'LinearProblem' object has no attribute '_solver'

Could you give the full error traceback? This error usually happens whenever something else fails in the construction of LinearProblem, which shuts down the class before self._solver has been initialized. I’ve just made a PR to make this clearer with: Safer handling of PETSc destruction in high-level classes by jorgensd · Pull Request #3951 · FEniCS/dolfinx · GitHub

I am running the python demo with ipynb, all cells before ran with no errors until this one. Let me know if this makes it clear or if you would like me to run a separate test.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[10], line 1
----> 1 problem = LinearProblem(
      2     a,
      3     L,
      4     bcs=[bc],
      5     petsc_options_prefix="demo_poisson_",
      6     petsc_options={"ksp_type": "preonly", "pc_type": "lu", "ksp_error_if_not_converged": True},
      7 )
      8 uh = problem.solve()
      9 assert isinstance(uh, fem.Function)

TypeError: LinearProblem.__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'petsc_options_prefix'

Remove the argument petsc_options_prefix from the LinearProblem initializer. This is a new keyword that will be mandatory in v0.10 (or currently the main branch).

Now I get an attribute error :

AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[11], line 1
----> 1 problem = LinearProblem(
      2     a,
      3     L,
      4     bcs=[bc],
      5     petsc_options={"ksp_type": "preonly", "pc_type": "lu", "ksp_error_if_not_converged": True},
      6 )
      7 uh = problem.solve()
      8 assert isinstance(uh, fem.Function)

File ~/opt/anaconda3/envs/fenicsx-env/lib/python3.11/site-packages/dolfinx/fem/petsc.py:788, in LinearProblem.__init__(self, a, L, bcs, u, petsc_options, form_compiler_options, jit_options)
    754 """Initialize solver for a linear variational problem.
    755 
    756 Args:
   (...)    780                                                                "mumps"})
    781 """
    782 self._a = _create_form(
    783     a,
    784     dtype=PETSc.ScalarType,
    785     form_compiler_options=form_compiler_options,
    786     jit_options=jit_options,
    787 )
--> 788 self._A = create_matrix(self._a)
...
--> 176     return _cpp.fem.petsc.create_matrix(a._cpp_object)
    177 else:
    178     return _cpp.fem.petsc.create_matrix(a._cpp_object, mat_type)

AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute '_cpp_object'

Now I need your code to reproduce the example, s I don’t know what the a you are sending in is

running exactly the ipynb for poisson, just changed the following :

problem = LinearProblem(
    a,
    L,
    bcs=[bc],
    petsc_options={"ksp_type": "preonly", "pc_type": "lu", "ksp_error_if_not_converged": True},
)
uh = problem.solve()
assert isinstance(uh, fem.Function)

Could you give me a link to what Poisson demo you have downloaded? There are quite a few versions out there.

I used the one on here : Poisson equation — DOLFINx 0.10.0.0 documentation

Since you are using version 0.9, you should download it from Poisson equation — DOLFINx 0.9.0 documentation

yes that one works great! thank you for your assistance!