I'm looking at the first problem - will get back to you on it.
As to the second issue: it was r21728, and no - it does not appear to have been
moved to the 1.4 series (rankfile is untested on a regular basis). I will do so
now.
Thanks!
Ralph
On Feb 15, 2010, at 10:39 AM, Bogdan Costescu wrote:
> Hi!
>
> With version 1.4.1 I get a rather strange crash in mpirun whenever I
> try to run a job using (I think) a rankfile which doesn't contain the
> specified number of ranks. F.e. I ask for 4 ranks ('-np 4'), but the
> rankfile contains only one entry:
>
> rank 0=mbm-01-24 slot=1:*
>
> and the following comes out:
>
> [mbm-01-24:20985] *** Process received signal ***
> [mbm-01-24:20985] Signal: Segmentation fault (11)
> [mbm-01-24:20985] Signal code: Address not mapped (1)
> [mbm-01-24:20985] Failing at address: 0x50
> [mbm-01-24:20985] [ 0] /lib64/libpthread.so.0 [0x2b9de894f7c0]
> [mbm-01-24:20985] [ 1]
> /sw/openmpi/1.4.1/gcc/4.4.3/lib/libopen-rte.so.0(orte_util_encode_pidmap+0xbb)
> [0x2b9de79b9f7b]
> [mbm-01-24:20985] [ 2]
> /sw/openmpi/1.4.1/gcc/4.4.3/lib/libopen-rte.so.0(orte_odls_base_default_get_add_procs_data+0x2d0)
> [0x2b9de79d49c0]
> [mbm-01-24:20985] [ 3]
> /sw/openmpi/1.4.1/gcc/4.4.3/lib/libopen-rte.so.0(orte_plm_base_launch_apps+0xbc)
> [0x2b9de79e1fcc]
> [mbm-01-24:20985] [ 4]
> /sw/openmpi/1.4.1/gcc/4.4.3/lib/libopen-rte.so.0 [0x2b9de79e6251]
> [mbm-01-24:20985] [ 5] mpirun [0x403782]
> [mbm-01-24:20985] [ 6] mpirun [0x402cb4]
> [mbm-01-24:20985] [ 7] /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4)
> [0x2b9de8b79994]
> [mbm-01-24:20985] [ 8] mpirun [0x402bd9]
> [mbm-01-24:20985] *** End of error message ***
> Segmentation fault
>
> However if the rankfile contains a second entry, like:
>
> rank 0=mbm-01-24 slot=1:*
> rank 1=mbm-01-24 slot=1:*
>
> I get an error, but no segmentation fault. I guess that the
> segmentation fault is unintended... Is this known ? If not, how could
> I debug this ?
> Now to the second problem: the exact same error keeps coming even if I
> specify 4 ranks, the messages are:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> mpirun was unable to start the specified application as it encountered an
> error:
>
> Error name: Error
> Node: mbm-01-24
>
> when attempting to start process rank 0.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [mbm-01-24:21011] Rank 0: PAFFINITY cannot get physical core id for
> logical core 4 in physical socket 1 (1)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> We were unable to successfully process/set the requested processor
> affinity settings:
>
> Specified slot list: 1:*
> Error: Error
>
> This could mean that a non-existent processor was specified, or
> that the specification had improper syntax.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The node has 2 slots, each with 4 cores, so what I'm trying to achieve
> is using the 4 cores of the second slot. When searching the archives,
> I stumbled on an e-mail from not too long ago which seemingly dealt
> with the same error:
>
> http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2009/07/6513.php
>
> which suggests that a fix was found, but no commit was specified, so I
> can't track down whether this was actually also applied to the stable
> series. Could someone more knowledgeable in this area shed some light
> ?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Bogdan
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