# Openmc aborts in the middle of a simulation

**URL:** <https://openmc.discourse.group/t/openmc-aborts-in-the-middle-of-a-simulation/3993>\
**Category:** User Support\
**Created:** [March 1, 2024, 9:12pm UTC](https://openmc.discourse.group/t/openmc-aborts-in-the-middle-of-a-simulation/3993 "2024-03-01T21:12:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![cclaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@cclaro](https://openmc.discourse.group/u/cclaro)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2024, 9:12pm UTC](https://openmc.discourse.group/t/openmc-aborts-in-the-middle-of-a-simulation/3993/1 "2024-03-01T21:12:43Z")

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I get this issue when trying to run an example script from the neutronics workshop. It aborts after a few minutes of running. Any ideas?

===============\> FIXED SOURCE TRANSPORT SIMULATION \<===============

Simulating batch 1  
Traceback (most recent call last):  
File “/Users/christianandresclaro/openmc/code/import openmc.py”, line 97, in   
openmc.run(threads=8)  
File “/Users/christianandresclaro/miniconda3/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openmc/executor.py”, line 314, in run  
\_run(args, output, cwd)  
File “/Users/christianandresclaro/miniconda3/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openmc/executor.py”, line 125, in \_run  
raise RuntimeError(error\_msg)  
RuntimeError: OpenMC aborted unexpectedly.

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**Author:** ![tklemes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c77e96/32.png) [@tklemes](https://openmc.discourse.group/u/tklemes)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2024, 4:09am UTC](https://openmc.discourse.group/t/openmc-aborts-in-the-middle-of-a-simulation/3993/2 "2024-03-21T04:09:09Z")

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Hi, I have the same error while im trying to plot in the SFR example

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**Author:** ![cclaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@cclaro](https://openmc.discourse.group/u/cclaro)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 7:23pm UTC](https://openmc.discourse.group/t/openmc-aborts-in-the-middle-of-a-simulation/3993/3 "2024-03-25T19:23:25Z")

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have you resolved this?

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**Author:** ![tklemes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c77e96/32.png) [@tklemes](https://openmc.discourse.group/u/tklemes)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 9:06pm UTC](https://openmc.discourse.group/t/openmc-aborts-in-the-middle-of-a-simulation/3993/4 "2024-03-26T21:06:51Z")

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no, I have not yet. I also made a post about my situation before I saw cclaro’s post.