[MPICH] SMPD

[Dave Goodell]

Hi Krishna,

On my linux box, errno 98 means "Address already in use".  I think  
that the default port for smpd is 8676, so you might try looking for  
something else that is already bound to that port:

% netstat -an | grep 8676

-Dave

On Jan 10, 2008, at 4:36 AM, Krishna Chaitanya wrote:

> Hi,
>           I am trying to launch mpiexec on a single node and I ran  
> the configure script with the " --with-pm=smpd" and the smpd file  
> was installed in the bin subdir. However, when i try to launch the  
> smp daemon, I get the following :
>
> ./smpd -s
> Please specify an authentication passphrase for this smpd:
> Would you like to save this passphrase in '/home/kc/.smpd'? yes
> [00:2915]..ERROR:MPIDU_Sock_listen failed,
> sock error: generic socket failure, error stack:
> MPIDU_Sock_listen(369): unable to bind socket to port  
> (port=135207912,errno=98:(strerror() not found))
>
>            It would be of help if someone could let me know how to  
> troubleshoot this.
>
> Thanks,
> Krishna Chaitanya K
> -- 
> In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity