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When running Mechanical APDL R18.x or R19.0 on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (including SP1, SP2, and SP3), the program may crash unexpectedly. The following are typical Traceback messages where these crashes may occur. Current ANSYS Traceback: loadhiswrite solvcl ANSYS Current ANSYS Traceback: nonlmonitor svkan solvcl ANSYS Current ANSYS Traceback: DomainOrder solvcl ANSYS

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      It’s a known defect DE162474. Also refer to R19.0 Known Issues and Limitations, 5.1 Mechanical According https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=7022289, there is a bug in some Intel CPUs which does not handle the Hardware Lock Elision correctly. Option #1: Prepend the following path to the user’s LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable: /lib64/noelision/, e.g. for Bash Shell: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib64/noelision/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH Option #2: Create file /etc/ld.so.conf.d/noelision.conf. Add the appropriate line: e.g. /lib64/noelision After saving the noelision.conf changes, run `ldconfig` to rebuild caches.