The problem is that OMPI is looking for a tcp port for your computer. With no 
network enabled, you don't have one, and so mpirun aborts. I don't know of any 
way around this at the moment.

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On Jan 16, 2012, at 4:53 PM, Gustavo Correa <g...@ldeo.columbia.edu> wrote:

> Have you tried to specify the hosts with something like this?
> 
> mpirun -np 2 -host localhost ./my_program
> 
> See 'man mpirun' for more details.
> 
> I hope it helps,
> Gus Correa
> 
> On Jan 16, 2012, at 6:34 PM, MM wrote:
> 
>> hi,
>> 
>> when my wireless adapter is down on my laptop, only localhost is configured.
>> In this case, when I mpirun 2 binaries on my laptop, mpirun fails with this 
>> error:
>> 
>> 
>> It looks like orte_init failed for some reason; your parallel process i
>> likely to abort.  There are many reasons that a parallel process can
>> fail during orte_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):
>> 
>>  orte_rml_base_select failed
>>  --> Returned value Error (-1) instead of ORTE_SUCCESS
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> when I turn on the wireless adapter back on, the mpirun works fine
>> 
>> Is there a way to make mpirun realize all my binaries run on the same box, 
>> and therefore don't need any other interface but localhost?
>> 
>> PS: this is ipconfig when the wireless adapter is off
>> 
>>> ipconfig /all
>> 
>> Windows IP Configuration
>> 
>>        Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . :
>>        Primary Dns Suffix  . . . . . . . :
>>        Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
>>        IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
>>        WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
>> 
>> Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:
>> 
>>        Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
>>        Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100 AGN
>>        Physical Address. . . . . . . . . :
>> 
>> rds,
>> 
>> MM
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