[petsc-users] valgrind error comes out when upgrade from ubuntu 8.04 LTS to 10.04

[Rebecca Xuefei Yuan]

Dear Satish,

Thanks very much for your kind help! Those tons of errors did not show  
up when I use the valgrind located at /usr/bin/valgrind.

Cheers,

Rebecca



Quoting Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov>:

> Ubuntu valgrind is at /usr/bin/valgrind.
>
> /usr/local/bin/valgrind might be a personal install. [perhaps   
> compiled on 8.04]
>
> Try:
>
> ~/soft/petsc-3.1-p4/externalpackages/mpich2-1.0.8/bin/mpiexec -np 2   
> /usr/bin/valgrind --tool=memcheck ./ex19.exe -malloc off -da_grid_x   
> 30 -da_grid_y 30
>
> [and then delete valgrind installed at /usr/local]
>
> Satish
>
> On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Rebecca Xuefei Yuan wrote:
>
>> It is
>>
>>
>> rebecca at YuanWork:~/soft$ which valgrind
>> /usr/local/bin/valgrind
>>
>>
>> R
>> Quoting Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov>:
>>
>> > what do you have for
>> >
>> > which valgrind
>> >
>> > Satish
>> >
>> > On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Rebecca Xuefei Yuan wrote:
>> >
>> > > Dear Satish,
>> > >
>> > > I checked the update the valgrind as
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > rebecca at YuanWork:~/soft$ sudo apt-get install valgrind
>> > > [sudo] password for rebecca:
>> > > Reading package lists... Done
>> > > Building dependency tree
>> > > Reading state information... Done
>> > > valgrind is already the newest version.
>> > > The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
>> > > required:
>> > > nabi ttf-wqy-zenhei ttf-takao-mincho libgcj8-dev ttf-alee gcj-4.2
>> > > ttf-takao-gothic gij xfonts-wqy ttf-unfonts-extra ttf-kacst
>> > > Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
>> > > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>> > > rebecca at YuanWork:~/soft$ dpkg -l valgrind
>> > > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
>> > > |
>> > >   
>> Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
>> > > |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
>> > > ||/ Name           Version        Description
>> > >   
>> +++-==============-==============-============================================
>> > > ii  valgrind       1:3.6.0~svn201 A memory debugger and profiler
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > It is a self installed valgrind or installed through ubuntu 10.04?
>> > >
>> > > Thanks a lot!
>> > >
>> > > Rebecca
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Quoting Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov>:
>> > >
>> > > > On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Rebecca Xuefei Yuan wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > > Dear Satish,
>> > > > >
>> > > > > I reinstalled PETSc by "rm -rf petsc-3.1-p4" and downloaded
>> > > > > "petsc-lite-3.1-p4.tar.gz" to start over.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > The commands are
>> > > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > > > ./config/configure.py --with-cc=gcc --with-fc=gfortran
>> > > > > --download-f-blas-lapack=1 --download-mpich=1
>> > > > > make PETSC_DIR=/home/rebecca/soft/petsc-3.1-p4
>> > > > > PETSC_ARCH=linux-gnu-c-debug
>> > > > > all
>> > > > > make PETSC_DIR=/home/rebecca/soft/petsc-3.1-p4
>> > > > > PETSC_ARCH=linux-gnu-c-debug
>> > > > > test
>> > > > >
>> > > > > When I check the valgrind version
>> > > > >
>> > > > > rebecca at YuanWork:~/soft$ valgrind --version
>> > > > > valgrind-3.5.0
>> > > > >
>> > > > > When I check at
>> > > > > http://valgrind.org/
>> > > > >
>> > > > > the current release is 3.5.0. How could you get 3.6?
>> > > >
>> > > > Are you using your own install of valgrind? [and not ubuntu install?]
>> > > > If so - did you reinstall it after your OS upgrade?
>> > > >
>> > > > Looks like valgrind packaged by ubuntu/debian is an SVN snapshot of
>> > > > upcoming 3.6
>> > > >
>> > > > > > > > > > > >
>> > > > balay at petsc:~ $ dpkg -l valgrind
>> > > > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
>> > > > |
>> > > >    
>> Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
>> > > > |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
>> > > > ||/ Name                   Version                Description
>> > > >    
>> +++-======================-======================-============================================================
>> > > > ii  valgrind               1:3.6.0~svn20100212-0u A memory   
>> debugger  and
>> > > > profiler
>> > > > balay at petsc:~ $
>> > > > <<<<<<<
>> > > >
>> > > > So your choice is to either:
>> > > >
>> > > > 1. install ubuntu valgrind [sudo apt-get install valgrind] -   
>> and  delete
>> > > > personal copy
>> > > > 2. reinstall valgrind from source [for this upgraded OS]
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > Satish
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Rebecca Xuefei YUAN
>> > > Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
>> > > Columbia University
>> > > Tel:917-399-8032
>> > > www.columbia.edu/~xy2102
>> > >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> Rebecca Xuefei YUAN
>> Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
>> Columbia University
>> Tel:917-399-8032
>> www.columbia.edu/~xy2102
>>
>
>
>



Rebecca Xuefei YUAN
Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Columbia University
Tel:917-399-8032
www.columbia.edu/~xy2102