Looks like its an issue with ubnutu mpich
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mpich2/+bug/1045326 The valgrind nightlybuilds are using '--download-mpich' Satish On Tue, 10 Jun 2014, Barry Smith wrote: > > On es > > > bsmith@es:/sandbox/bsmith/petsc/src/vec/vec/examples/tutorials$ > /sandbox/bsmith/petsc/bin/petscmpiexec -valgrind -n 1 ./ex1 > cr_libinit.c:183 cri_init: sigaction() failed: Invalid argument > > ===================================================================================== > = BAD TERMINATION OF ONE OF YOUR APPLICATION PROCESSES > = EXIT CODE: 134 > = CLEANING UP REMAINING PROCESSES > = YOU CAN IGNORE THE BELOW CLEANUP MESSAGES > ===================================================================================== > APPLICATION TERMINATED WITH THE EXIT STRING: Aborted (signal 6) > bsmith@es:/sandbox/bsmith/petsc/src/vec/vec/examples/tutorials$ > > >
