Issue with "import firedrake"

[awaham]

Hello All,
I am trying to run Firedrake using a Docker image. I was able to pull the image, create a container. But I get a PETSC error message (see below) when I try to "import firedrake".

import firedrake
[0]PETSC ERROR: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[0]PETSC ERROR: Caught signal number 4 Illegal instruction: Likely due to memory corruption
[0]PETSC ERROR: Try option -start_in_debugger or -on_error_attach_debugger
[0]PETSC ERROR: or see https://petsc.org/release/faq/#valgrind and https://petsc.org/release/faq/
[0]PETSC ERROR: configure using --with-debugging=yes, recompile, link, and run
[0]PETSC ERROR: to get more information on the crash.
application called MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 59) - process 0
[unset]: PMIU_write error; fd=-1 buf=:cmd=abort exitcode=59 message=application called MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 59) - process 0
:
system msg for write_line failure : Bad file descriptor

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

[connorjward]

What sort of hardware are you running on?

[awaham]

I am running it on Windows11.

[connorjward]

Some quick searchingg has revealed a couple of identical issues:

• Installation issue (PETSC ?) on Ubuntu 20.04.6 VM mdolab/dafoam#596
• https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-users/2018-April/035153.html

People seem to think that this is caused either by mismatching architecture and/or running out of memory.

Our recommended installation method for Windows is to use WSL. Would this work for you?

[awaham]

I have tried WSL and it is working now.
Thanks very much for your help.