From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@math.tamu.edu>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 19:21:56 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Improve an error message.
X-Git-Tag: v8.5.0-rc1~1175^2
X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7cc2a786642ac90438de668241d65f49df646c99;p=dealii.git

Improve an error message.

In particular, say which file could not be opened and what the error code is.
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diff --git a/source/base/data_out_base.cc b/source/base/data_out_base.cc
index 8e5a78bbd7..9e14e4aa7f 100644
--- a/source/base/data_out_base.cc
+++ b/source/base/data_out_base.cc
@@ -6153,7 +6153,12 @@ void DataOutInterface<dim,spacedim>::write_vtu_in_parallel (const char *filename
   MPI_File fh;
   err = MPI_File_open(comm, const_cast<char *>(filename),
                       MPI_MODE_CREATE | MPI_MODE_WRONLY, info, &fh);
-  AssertThrow(err==0, ExcMessage("Unable to open file with MPI_File_open!"));
+  AssertThrow(err==0,
+              ExcMessage("Unable to open file <"
+                         + std::string(filename) +
+                         "> with MPI_File_open. The error code "
+                         "returned was "
+                         + Utilities::to_string(err) + "."));
 
 
   MPI_File_set_size(fh, 0); // delete the file contents