[MPICH2-dev] Problems starting up MPD as root user

[Rusty Lusk]

It looks to me like you have the contents of mpd.hosts in mpd.conf.   
The mpd.conf file contains options, and the secret word.

Regards,
Rusty Lusk

On Jan 29, 2007, at 11:33 AMJanuary, nanday at csmail.cs.siu.edu wrote:

> Hi
> We have a 9 node linux cluster and I had installed MPICH2 few  
> months ago on it.
> We have several users and each have their own MPD running right  
> now, but now as
> part of our application we are developing we need to use MPD under  
> root
> environment. So I created .mpd.conf file under /root directory and  
> mpd.hosts
> file there as well, but I get this error when I try mpd & command.
>
> ***********************************ERROR****************************** 
> *******
> bash-3.00# mpd &
> [2] 20461
> bash-3.00#  (get_parms_from_rcfile 1168): line in mpd conf is not  
> key=val pair;
> line=:athena.cs.siu.edu
> :
>  (get_parms_from_rcfile 1168): line in mpd conf is not key=val pair;
> line=:oscarnode1.cs.siu.edu
> :
>  (get_parms_from_rcfile 1168): line in mpd conf is not key=val pair;
> line=:oscarnode2.cs.siu.edu
> :
>  (get_parms_from_rcfile 1168): line in mpd conf is not key=val pair;
> line=:oscarnode3.cs.siu.edu
> :
>  (get_parms_from_rcfile 1168): line in mpd conf is not key=val pair;
> line=:oscarnode4.cs.siu.edu
> :
>  (get_parms_from_rcfile 1168): line in mpd conf is not key=val pair;
> line=:oscarnode5.cs.siu.edu
> :
>  (get_parms_from_rcfile 1168): line in mpd conf is not key=val pair;
> line=:oscarnode6.cs.siu.edu
> :
>  (get_parms_from_rcfile 1168): line in mpd conf is not key=val pair;
> line=:oscarnode7.cs.siu.edu
> :
>  (get_parms_from_rcfile 1168): line in mpd conf is not key=val pair;
> line=:oscarnode8.cs.siu.edu
> :
> An mpd is already running with console at /tmp/mpd2.console_root on
> athena.cs.siu.edu.
> Start mpd with the -n option for a second mpd on same host.
> bash-3.00#
>
>
> *********************************ERROR******************************** 
> ***
> it says an mpd is already running under root, but when I try  
> mpdtrace or any
> other mpd command I get the exact same error as above. Does anyone  
> have any
> suggestions on this? Thanks!
> -Nanda
>
>
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