WFlow 1.0rc3 fails when running sbm_gwf:model example

[Haliaaetus]

Wflow version checks

• I have checked that this issue has not already been reported.

• I have checked that this bug exists on the latest version of Wflow.

Reproducible Example

Wflow.run(
"~/Wflow/sbm_gwf_config.toml";
silent = false,
)

Current behaviour

Wflow starts to read the configuration, but never finishes.

Desired behaviour

Wfow reads all the configuration and starts the model run.

Additional Context

I used the example files for the 1.0.0 release (https://github.com/visr/wflow-artifacts/releases/) and an TOML file as described in the documentation. However, the Wflow.run(.../sbm_gwf_config.toml) started, but never comes to an end. Turns out, the program halted in the function Model(config::Config, type::SbmGwfModel) when clock = Clock(config, reader) is called, maybe because there is no file to read (no error occurs). Changing this to clock = Clock(config) to take the data alone from the toml file, wflow crashes later on (UndefVarError: NetworkLand not defined in Main.Wflow - it is defined in a function call, may be its not called before).
Have someone an idea how to fix it or how to run the model successfull?

[vers-w]

Thanks for reporting this issue. I can't reproduce this locally, NetworkLand should be available. Could you check the Wflow version you're actually using from the Pkg REPL:

] status Wflow

And could you please indicate the installation steps?

[AquaPore]

Hi,

From my experience Wflow on my system works with Julia v"1.11.3" and not above:
Issue 738

You can test the version as follow:

@assert Base.VERSION == v"1.11.3"

You can install different versions of Julia by using juliaup. in Vscode in setting.jl in Vscode

 "julia.executablePath": "C:\\Users\\jpollacco.local\\.julia\\juliaup\\julia-1.11.3+0.x64.w64.mingw32\\bin\\julia.exe",

I believe is best not to update the packages, so just in case, copy Wflow
Manifest.toml
Project.toml

Paste in your Vscode.

Then perform instantiate which will not update the Manifest.toml it will in this case install an outdated dependency tree.

Pkg.instantiate()
pkg-instantiate-after-activating-project

Hope it helps,
J.A.P. Pollacco

[Haliaaetus]

Hello,
first of all thank you very much fpr your fast reply. I checked everything again.

I could not install the wflow-rc3 via pkg on Linux - pkg> add Wflow:Wflow#v1.0.0-rc3 leads to the old version 0.8.1 when checking the status. Therefore I took the source code from the release 1.0.0-branch, compiled it and started the model. The result was the same as before - before starting the clock-funktion the model wait for something never comes.

Then I added the older Julia 1.11.3 as suggested - and to my surprise, the example model works and the model run finieshed as expected.

That's fine, because I could proceed with the model. But it would be better, not to freeze Wflow to an fixed Julia verson. At least there should be an hint in the documentation.

Thanks again and best regards from the red waters in Lusatia.

[JoostBuitink]

Just a quick note, as I think the syntax for adding package via tags has changed slightly in Julia 1.12, probably if you do ] add Wflow#v1.0.0-rc3:Wflow, you do get the right version (this also works for 1.11 btw). I would indeed advice to keep using Julia 1.11 for now.

[Haliaaetus]

Thank's a lot - this version to install the RC3 works directly. Should be worth to change it in the recommendations how to install it.