FW: [MPICH] Problems installing MPICH2 on single machine (fwd)

[James Frye]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Ralph M. Butler wrote:

> The output suggests that ssh is failing on the computer.  This
> implies that a number of client/server things like mpd might fail.
>
> If you run mpdcheck with the -pc option you would probably see
> lots of output where config files like /etc/hosts are printed.

Yes, but nothing that gives me any clue about the problem.  I don't know 
much about network configuration, and have no idea even where to start 
loooking for more.

> ...something simple that might work for you could be to put something 
> like this in /etc/hosts:
>    127.0.0.1  a.me.org localhost.localdomain localhost

That works!  (With MPICH2, haven't tried the regular MPICH yet.) Now if 
only I understood why...  But what the heck: a magic spell is a magic 
spell, right?

Thanks,
James