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

[Ralph M. Butler]

> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:23:37 -0700 (PDT)
> From: James Frye <frye at cs.unr.edu>
> To: Ralph M. Butler <rbutler at mtsu.edu>
> Cc: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: FW: [MPICH] Problems installing MPICH2 on single machine
>     (fwd)
>
> 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?

Yes, and you have thus have uncovered the answer to a long-held secret,
the meaning of the m in mpd (magic).  :-)