[mpich-discuss] mpiexec (hydra) can't run in the background

[Manhui Wang]

Dear Pavan,

Yes, it works fine after your patch. Presumably will it be available in
next release version mpich2-1.3.3?

Thanks,
Manhui

Pavan Balaji wrote:
> 
> Thanks. I'm able to reproduce this with the Intel compiler. Can you try
> the attached patch to see if it works correctly for you?
> 
>  -- Pavan
> 
> On 02/11/2011 08:48 AM, Manhui Wang wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I built the mpich2-1.3.2 library with ifort/icc/icpc 11.1.072 using the
>> following options:
>>
>> nice -n +18 ./configure  --with-device=ch3:nemesis
>> --prefix=/path/mpich2-1.3.2-nemesis-install FC=ifort --enable-fc
>> F77=ifort --enable-f77 CC=icc CXX=icpc --enable-cxx 2>&1 | tee
>> configure.log
>>
>> nice -n +18 make 2>&1 | tee make.log
>>
>> nice -n +18 make install 2>&1 | tee install.log
>>
>> Reproduce the problem with:
>>
>> mpicc hello_world_wait.c -o hello.1.3.2
>> mpiexec -np 2 ./hello.1.3.2>  output132.log&
>>
>> then immediately try any command eg.
>>
>> echo hello
>>
>> then it fails with error message like
>>
>>   [mpiexec at arccacluster8] HYDU_sock_read (./utils/sock/sock.c:222): read
>> errno (Input/output error)
>> [mpiexec at arccacluster8] econtrol_cb (./pm/pmiserv/pmiserv_cb.c:249):
>> assert (!closed) failed
>> [mpiexec at arccacluster8] HYDT_dmxu_poll_wait_for_event
>> (./tools/demux/demux_poll.c:77): callback returned error status
>> [mpiexec at arccacluster8] HYD_pmci_wait_for_completion
>> (./pm/pmiserv/pmiserv_pmci.c:206): error waiting for event
>> [mpiexec at arccacluster8] main (./ui/mpich/mpiexec.c:404): process manager
>> error waiting for completion
>> cho hello
>> hello
>> [1]+  Exit 255                mpiexec -np 2 ./hello.1.3.2>  output132.log
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Manhui
>>
>>
>> Pavan Balaji wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> On 02/11/2011 03:13 AM, Manhui Wang wrote:
>>>>    mpicc hello_world_wait.c -o hello.1.3.2
>>>> [sacmw4 at arccacluster11 testprogram]$ mpiexec -np 2 ./hello.1.3.2
>>>>> output132.log&
>>>
>>> I just tried the 1.3.2 release on Ubuntu Maverick with gcc 4.4.3 and it
>>> seems to work fine. It's hard to tell what's going wrong with the
>>> information provided.
>>>
>>> Would you be willing to try out other snapshots from
>>> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpich2/downloads/tarballs/nightly/hydra
>>>
>>> and tell me approximately which version this broke at?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>   -- Pavan
>>>
>>
> 

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