It's certainly helped and now runs for me however if I run mpirun under valgrind and then opmi-ps in another window Valgrind reports errors and ompi-ps doesn't list the job so there is clearly something still amiss. I'm trying to do some more diagnostics now.
==32362== Syscall param writev(vector[...]) points to uninitialised byte(s) ==32362== at 0x41BF10C: writev (writev.c:46) ==32362== by 0x4EAAD52: mca_oob_tcp_msg_send_handler (in /mnt/home/debian/ashley/code/OpenMPI/install/lib/openmpi/mca_oob_tcp.so) ==32362== by 0x4EAC505: mca_oob_tcp_peer_send (in /mnt/home/debian/ashley/code/OpenMPI/install/lib/openmpi/mca_oob_tcp.so) ==32362== by 0x4EAEF89: mca_oob_tcp_send_nb (in /mnt/home/debian/ashley/code/OpenMPI/install/lib/openmpi/mca_oob_tcp.so) ==32362== by 0x4EA20BE: orte_rml_oob_send (in /mnt/home/debian/ashley/code/OpenMPI/install/lib/openmpi/mca_rml_oob.so) ==32362== by 0x4EA2359: orte_rml_oob_send_buffer (in /mnt/home/debian/ashley/code/OpenMPI/install/lib/openmpi/mca_rml_oob.so) ==32362== by 0x4050738: process_commands (in /mnt/home/debian/ashley/code/OpenMPI/install/lib/libopen-rte.so.0.0.0) ==32362== by 0x405108C: orte_daemon_cmd_processor (in /mnt/home/debian/ashley/code/OpenMPI/install/lib/libopen-rte.so.0.0.0) ==32362== by 0x4260B57: opal_event_base_loop (in /mnt/home/debian/ashley/code/OpenMPI/install/lib/libopen-pal.so.0.0.0) ==32362== by 0x4260DF6: opal_event_loop (in /mnt/home/debian/ashley/code/OpenMPI/install/lib/libopen-pal.so.0.0.0) ==32362== by 0x4260E1D: opal_event_dispatch (in /mnt/home/debian/ashley/code/OpenMPI/install/lib/libopen-pal.so.0.0.0) ==32362== by 0x804B15F: orterun (orterun.c:757) ==32362== Address 0x448507c is 20 bytes inside a block of size 512 alloc'd ==32362== at 0x402613C: realloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:429) ==32362== by 0x42556B7: opal_dss_buffer_extend (in /mnt/home/debian/ashley/code/OpenMPI/install/lib/libopen-pal.so.0.0.0) ==32362== by 0x4256C4F: opal_dss_pack_int32 (in /mnt/home/debian/ashley/code/OpenMPI/install/lib/libopen-pal.so.0.0.0) ==32362== by 0x42565C9: opal_dss_pack_buffer (in /mnt/home/debian/ashley/code/OpenMPI/install/lib/libopen-pal.so.0.0.0) ==32362== by 0x403A60D: orte_dt_pack_job (in /mnt/home/debian/ashley/code/OpenMPI/install/lib/libopen-rte.so.0.0.0) ==32362== by 0x42565C9: opal_dss_pack_buffer (in /mnt/home/debian/ashley/code/OpenMPI/install/lib/libopen-pal.so.0.0.0) ==32362== by 0x4256FFB: opal_dss_pack (in /mnt/home/debian/ashley/code/OpenMPI/install/lib/libopen-pal.so.0.0.0) ==32362== by 0x40506F7: process_commands (in /mnt/home/debian/ashley/code/OpenMPI/install/lib/libopen-rte.so.0.0.0) ==32362== by 0x405108C: orte_daemon_cmd_processor (in /mnt/home/debian/ashley/code/OpenMPI/install/lib/libopen-rte.so.0.0.0) ==32362== by 0x4260B57: opal_event_base_loop (in /mnt/home/debian/ashley/code/OpenMPI/install/lib/libopen-pal.so.0.0.0) ==32362== by 0x4260DF6: opal_event_loop (in /mnt/home/debian/ashley/code/OpenMPI/install/lib/libopen-pal.so.0.0.0) ==32362== by 0x4260E1D: opal_event_dispatch (in /mnt/home/debian/ashley/code/OpenMPI/install/lib/libopen-pal.so.0.0.0) On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 08:22 -0600, Ralph Castain wrote: > Aha! Thanks for spotting the problem - I had to move that var init to > cover all cases, but it should be working now with r21249 > > > > On May 18, 2009, at 8:08 AM, Ashley Pittman wrote: > > > > > Ralph, > > > > This patch fixed it, num_nodes was being used initialised and hence > > the > > client was getting a bogus value for the number of nodes. > > > > Ashley, > > > > On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 10:09 +0100, Ashley Pittman wrote: > >> No joy I'm afraid, now I get errors when I run it. This is a single > >> node job run with the command line "mpirun -n 3 ./a.out". I've > >> attached > >> the strace output and gzipped /tmp files from the machine. > >> Valgrind on > >> the opmi-ps process doesn't show anything interesting. > >> > >> [alpha:29942] [[35044,0],0] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: Data unpack would read > >> past > >> end of buffer in > >> file /mnt/home/debian/ashley/code/OpenMPI/ompi-trunk-tes/trunk/orte/ > >> util/comm/comm.c at line 242 > >> [alpha:29942] [[35044,0],0] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: Data unpack would read > >> past > >> end of buffer in > >> file /mnt/home/debian/ashley/code/OpenMPI/ompi-trunk-tes/trunk/orte/ > >> tools/orte-ps/orte-ps.c at line 818 > >> > >> Ashley. > >> > >> On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 08:15 -0600, Ralph Castain wrote: > >>> This is fixed now, Ashley - sorry for the problem. > >>> > >>> > >>> On May 15, 2009, at 4:47 AM, Ashley Pittman wrote: > >>> > >>>> On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 22:49 -0600, Ralph Castain wrote: > >>>>> It is definitely broken at the moment, Ashley. I have it pretty > >>>>> well > >>>>> fixed, but need/want to cleanup some corner cases that have > >>>>> plagued > >>>>> us > >>>>> for a long time. > >>>>> > >>>>> Should have it for you sometime Friday. > >>>> > >>>> Ok, thanks. I might try switching to slurm in the mean-time, I > >>>> know > >>>> my > >>>> code works with that. > >>>> > >>>> Can you let me know when it's fixed on or off list and I'll do an > >>>> update. > >>>> > >>>> Ashley, > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> devel mailing list > >>>> de...@open-mpi.org > >>>> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> devel mailing list > >>> de...@open-mpi.org > >>> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel > >> _______________________________________________ > >> devel mailing list > >> de...@open-mpi.org > >> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel > > <ompi-ps.patch>_______________________________________________ > > devel mailing list > > de...@open-mpi.org > > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > de...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel