[MOAB-dev] failed to run parallel test case: moab-5.1.0 with mpich-3.3

[Vijay S. Mahadevan]

Lorenzo,

I routinely run with mpich-3.2 on my Macbook with clang and have not
seen any issues both in-source or out-of-source. Our buildbot builds
do use mpich-3.1 on Ubuntu Trusty and there are no issues there as
well. However, I currently don't see any builds with mpich-3.3 -
though I would be surprised to see a different behavior with a newer
minor MPI release. We can test it out and let you know if the failures
can be replicated.

Vijay

On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 1:00 PM Lorenzo Botti <bottilorenzo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Vijay,
> I tried to run the test individually last week and some of them hang. I do not remember exactly which but I can tell you in more detail if you need to know. Anyway, since something is not working correctly, I'd like to know if your builds take into account mpich-3.3.
> Bests
> Lorenzo
>
> On Sun, Jun 9, 2019, 14:59 Vijay S. Mahadevan <vijay.m at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Lorenzo,
>>
>> Sorry about my delayed response. I was on travel this past week and
>> couldn't reply to you immediately.
>>
>> It is puzzling that the tests in parallel folder are getting built as
>> expected but "make check" does not run them correctly. I can see that
>> mpiexec program was set correctly during configuration and so the next
>> logical check here would be to try and launch the test programs
>> manually to see whether they succeed.
>>
>> Can you do the following:
>> cd build/test/parallel && mpiexec -n 2 ./parallel_unit_tests &&
>> mpiexec -n 2 ./parallel_hdf5_test
>>
>> Both those tests should run to completion successfully if everything
>> is setup correctly. If these succeed, I would be out of ideas until we
>> can replicate it locally. Let me know the result with the above
>> experiment.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Vijay
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 2, 2019 at 6:22 AM Lorenzo Botti <bottilorenzo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Can you do the following two variations:
>> > >
>> > > 1) Re-verifying your current approach
>> > >   a) Go to test/parallel and do `make clean && make check | tee make_check.log`
>> > >   b) Send us make_check.log so that we can see if things compile but
>> > > do not run or nothing actually happens there.
>> > >
>> >
>> > Please find in attachment the make_check.log... so yes this is the
>> > point where it hangs.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > > 2) Retry out-of-source
>> > >   a) Perform `make distclean` in your in-source build
>> > >   b) Do: `mkdir build && ../configure <configure arguments> && make
>> > > all && make check`
>> > >
>> > > Let me know if (1) yields something useful and if not, (2) should
>> > > resolve the issue. If (2) does work, then we may have a problem with
>> > > in-source builds and I can check that on a workstation to replicate
>> > > the problem. Hope my instructions above aren't confusing.
>> > >
>> >
>> > I got same behavior with out-of-source, following your instructions,
>> > see attached config.log
>> >
>> > Bests
>> > Lorenzo