[mpich-discuss] mpdcheck fails after logout

[Dorian Krause]

Dorian Krause wrote:
> Richard Katz wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to run a sequence of MPI jobs from a shell script and 
>> encountering this problem:
>>
>> after having launched the shell script in the background, if I log 
>> out of the machine, the script still executes but I get:
>>
>> mpiexec failed: gethostbyname_ex failed for darcy.earth.ox.ac.uk
>>
>> for each MPI job in the script. As a test, I used the following script:
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>> mpdcheck -v > test_script.out
>> mpiexec -np 2 ./myProg >> test_script.out < /dev/null
>> mpdcheck -v >> test_script.out
>> mpiexec -np 2 ./myProg >> test_script.out < /dev/null
>>
>> and ran it in the background. The first mpdcheck returned 
>> successfully. The first run of myProg was also successful. At some 
>> time during the first execution of myProg I logged out of the machine 
>> and the subsequent mpdcheck and mpicheck failed. mpdcheck -v returned:
>>
>> obtaining hostname via gethostname and getfqdn
>> gethostname gives darcy.earth.ox.ac.uk
>> getfqdn gives darcy.earth.ox.ac.uk
>> checking out unqualified hostname; make sure is not "localhost", etc.
>> checking out qualified hostname; make sure is not "localhost", etc.
>> obtain IP addrs via qualified and unqualified hostnames; make sure 
>> other than 1
>> 27.0.0.1
>> *** gethostbyname_ex failed for this host darcy.earth.ox.ac.uk
>> *** gethostbyname_ex failed for host darcy.earth.ox.ac.uk
>> checking that IP addrs resolve to same host
>> now do some gethostbyaddr and gethostbyname_ex for machines in hosts 
>> file
>>
>> If I run the script but remain logged in to the machine, there is no 
>> problem.
>>
>> How can I fix this so that I can log out and not cause 
>> gethostbyname_ex to fail?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Rich
>>
> Hi,
>
> Use screen or (probably easier) nohup whe starting mpd.
>
> Dorian
I'm sorry. I wrote the answer too fast. Obviously this is no solution.
Dorian