Hi Michele, You may actually need to have gdb/valgrind installed before configuring and building OpenMPI with the --enable-memchecker option.
Regards, Eloi On Tuesday 22 June 2010 10:44:16 Michele De Stefano wrote: > Good morning. > > I'm experiencing some problems with Open MPI 1.4.2, built on a CentOS > 5.5, on a 32 bit machine. > > I've configured it with > > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/openmpi --enable-debug > --enable-memchecker --enable-heterogeneous > > When I run "/usr/local/openmpi/bin/mpiexec -np 3 ls", Open MPI crashes > with this error message: > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > It looks like opal_init failed for some reason; your parallel process is > likely to abort. There are many reasons that a parallel process can > fail during opal_init; some of which are due to configuration or > environment problems. This failure appears to be an internal failure; > here's some additional information (which may only be relevant to an > Open MPI developer): > > opal_memchecker_base_select failed > --> Returned value -13 instead of OPAL_SUCCESS > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > [ccdestefanolinux:06037] [[INVALID],INVALID] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: Not found > in file ../../orte/runtime/orte_init.c at line 77 > [ccdestefanolinux:06037] [[INVALID],INVALID] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: Not found > in file ../../../../orte/tools/orterun/orterun.c at line 543 > > > It seems that the memchecker does not work, because after > reconfiguring without "--enable-memchecker" and rebuilding, I don't > receive the same error anymore. > > May any of the Open MPI developers verify this problem, please ? > > Thank you very much. > Best regards. -- Eloi Gaudry Free Field Technologies Axis Park Louvain-la-Neuve Rue Emile Francqui, 1 B-1435 Mont-Saint Guibert BELGIUM Company Phone: +32 10 487 959 Company Fax: +32 10 454 626
