Anders Logg wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 08:03:39PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>> I'm experiencing a puzzling problem wth pyDOLFIN and MPI again.
>>
>> When I do
>>
>>      python file.py
>>
>> where file.py is just
>>
>>      from dolfin import *
>>
>>      object = Function("/tmp/fileKFnQpl.xml")
>>      plot(object)
>>      interactive()
>>
>> I see a plot as expected, and get
>>
>>      Plot active, press 'q' to continue.
>>
>> After pressing 'q', I get
>>
>>      *** An error occurred in MPI_Attr_get
>>      *** after MPI was finalized
>>      *** MPI_ERRORS_ARE_FATAL (goodbye)
>>      [gnw20pc:2277] Abort before MPI_INIT completed successfully; not 
>> able to guarantee that all other processes were killed!
>>      *** An error occurred in MPI_Comm_rank
>>      *** after MPI was finalized
>>      *** MPI_ERRORS_ARE_FATAL (goodbye)
>>      *** An error occurred in MPI_Type_free
>>      *** after MPI was finalized
>>      *** MPI_ERRORS_ARE_FATAL (goodbye)
>>      Segmentation fault
>>
>> Somehow, Python appears to be calling MPI_Finalize before DOLFIN gets a 
>> chance to finalise things correctly. Any ideas/experience on how Python 
>> interacts with MPI? I've commented out MPI_Finalize() in DOLFIN to be 
>> sure that DOLFIN is not calling it.
>>
>> Garth
> 
> Would it help if we just call MPI_Finalized to check before
> finalizing? 

No, because something is killing MPI before PETSc is finished.

What I don't understand is what an MPI-enable library does when wrapped 
and called from Python.

Garth

We can add a wrapper for it just like for MPI_Initialized.
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