[mpich-discuss] Installation problems: More details

[Hiatt, Dave M]

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling on the one remaining working system, and now both exhibit the same problem and message as stated below.  It appears that there could be an issue with uninstalling and trying to reinstall 1.1.  Right now I just need some way out of this fix.

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Subject: [mpich-discuss] Installation problems


I had MPICH2 1.07 up and running between a set of test machines with no problems.  But thanks to local IT staff, one of my systems was trashed and had to be reimaged from ground 0.  I downloaded version 1.1 and installed it, but was having communication problems between the system on 1.07 and 1.1, so I decided to install 1.1 on the system that had not been touched.

I believe I actually installed it twice.  The first time seemed to go ok, but and mpiconfig would show green around the two hosts names for a short while, but then drop.  In all the checking and rechecking, I came to doubt I had installed the 1.1 on one of the systems and installed it again.  When the installation started the 2nd time, I asked if I wanted to repair or uninstall MPI, so I decided to start from scratch again, and said uninstall.  When that completed I started the install again, but now it always fails at the very end, with the message

"Three is a problem with this Windows Installer package.  A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected.  Contact your support personnel or package vendor".  Of course all of this would happen three days before a major release and has brought my testing to a total halt.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I deleted everything and culled through the registry and deleted anything that had mpich on it, but to no avail.  Where should I look for a diagnostic on what the run that failed has a problem with?

Desperate in St. Louis


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Dave Hiatt
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