I don't know exactly what the problem is here.... But I thought I would let you know that we use MPICH2 with Petsc and libmesh everyday... On both 64bit macs and Linux... And everything works fine.
So it is possible. Sorry I've never seen this error before... Maybe Cody can help.... Derek Sent from my iPad On Jul 10, 2010, at 7:10 AM, John Peterson <peter...@cfdlab.ae.utexas.edu> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Yujie <recrusa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Dear Libmesh Developers >> >> I am updating MPICH from MPICH1 to MPICH2. I can compile PETSc and >> Libmesh successfully. I also use "make test" to successfully test >> PETSc. However, when I run my codes with mpiexec. I got the following >> errors >> " >> 0 - <NO ERROR MESSAGE> : Could not convert index 1140850688 into a pointer >> The index may be an incorrect argument. >> Possible sources of this problem are a missing "include 'mpif.h'", >> a misspelled MPI object (e.g., MPI_COM_WORLD instead of MPI_COMM_WORLD) >> or a misspelled user variable for an MPI object (e.g., >> com instead of comm). >> [0] Aborting program ! >> [0] Aborting program! >> p0_17843: p4_error: : 9039 >> p0_17842: p4_error: : 9039 >> 0 - <NO ERROR MESSAGE> : Could not convert index 1140850688 into a pointer >> The index may be an incorrect argument. >> Possible sources of this problem are a missing "include 'mpif.h'", >> a misspelled MPI object (e.g., MPI_COM_WORLD instead of MPI_COMM_WORLD) >> or a misspelled user variable for an MPI object (e.g., >> com instead of comm). >> [0] Aborting program ! >> [0] Aborting program! >> p0_23019: p4_error: : 9039" >> >> Could you give me some comments? thanks a lot. > > Hi, > > If I recall correctly, this is a problem with the Fortran side of the > mpich1 implementation storing the address of a pointer as a 4 byte > integer. This does not work on 64-bit systems where pointers are 8 > bytes...if you google the error message you'll get more information. > > You say you are switching to mpich2 though... so I'm not even sure why > you would be seeing this error. My advice is to let petsc download > MPI for you during it's installation. That has worked for me in the > past. > > -- > John > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > Libmesh-users mailing list > Libmesh-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Libmesh-users mailing list Libmesh-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-users
