[petsc-users] osx error

[Satish Balay]

But would really like to know if the test is a false positive.

Satish

On Thu, 17 Sep 2020, Satish Balay wrote:

> Here is a fix:
> 
> echo 127.0.0.1 `hostname` | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts
> 
> Satish
> 
> On Thu, 17 Sep 2020, Matthew Knepley wrote:
> 
> > We should have an option to disable the test.
> > 
> >    Matt
> > 
> > On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 5:31 PM Satish Balay via petsc-users <
> > petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 17 Sep 2020, Mark Adams wrote:
> > >
> > > > I rebased over master and started getting this error.
> > > > I did reinstall MPICH (brew) recently.
> > > > Any ideas?
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Mark
> > >
> > >
> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Exception: Your hostname will not work with MPI, perhaps you have VPN
> > > running whose network settings may not play well with MPI or your network
> > > is misconfigured
> > >
> > > *******************************************************************************
> > >
> > >
> > > Ok - this is a new test that got added to check for broken network that
> > > breaks MPI.
> > >
> > > Here is the check:
> > >
> > > Executing: ping -c 2 MarksMac-302.local
> > >
> > > The check says you have broken network settings. [as its not responding to
> > > ping.]
> > >
> > > Does MPI work fine on this box? You can try disabling this check
> > > (manually) - and do the build, and run
> > >
> > > Does MPI run fine?
> > >
> > > Satish
> > >
> > >
> > > >>>>>>>>>>>
> > >
> > > diff --git a/config/BuildSystem/config/packages/MPI.py
> > > b/config/BuildSystem/config/packages/MPI.py
> > > index 2e130fdcfe..8464de6773 100644
> > > --- a/config/BuildSystem/config/packages/MPI.py
> > > +++ b/config/BuildSystem/config/packages/MPI.py
> > > @@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ shared libraries and run with
> > > --known-mpi-shared-libraries=1')
> > >                if ret != 0:
> > >                  raise RuntimeError(errormessage+" Return code %s\n" % ret)
> > >              except:
> > > -              raise RuntimeError("Exception: "+errormessage)
> > > +              pass
> > >            else:
> > >              self.logPrint("Unable to get result from hostname, skipping
> > > ping check\n")
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > 
> 
>