[DEFECT] Production Flex failure

[sobincho]

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Defect Description

Describe the defect

What did you expect to see happen?

Successfully running outer.xml and getting a sweep.csv file

What did you see instead?

Jot submitted was aborted, showing the following error:

There were 1 warnings during the simulation run: (1 time) There were 2 failed runs! Run with verbosity = debug for more details.

OSError: There were failed runs; aborting RAVEN.

Do you have a suggested fix for the development team?

Describe how to Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Screenshots and Input Files Please attach the input file(s) that generate this error. The simpler the input, the faster we can find the issue. production_flex.txt

production_flex.zip

Platform (please complete the following information):

• OS: [macOS]
• Version: [11.2.3]
• Dependencies Installation: [CONDA]

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[PaulTalbot-INL]

It looks like on Mac (and perhaps not on other OS?) the VariableGroups in the inner are confusing the DataSet return from the Inner to the Outer; because the VariableGroup is not replaced when the XML is passed to the returning DataSet, it is looking for that variable instead of the ones that are expected to return.

This should be resolved when we move to using the netCDF databases for return instead of the CSV format.