Re: [OMPI users] Segfault in orted (home directory problem)

2007-06-07 Thread Ralph Castain
Hmmm...well, we certainly will ke a point to give you a better error message! Probably won't get it into 1.2.3, but should make later releases. Thanks for letting me know Ralph On 6/7/07 1:22 PM, "Guillaume THOMAS-COLLIGNON" wrote: > You're right, the --wdir option works fine ! > Thanks ! > >

Re: [OMPI users] Segfault in orted (home directory problem)

2007-06-07 Thread Guillaume THOMAS-COLLIGNON
You're right, the --wdir option works fine ! Thanks ! I just tried an older version we had compiled (1.2b3), and the error was more explicit than the seg fault we get with 1.2.2 : Could not chdir to home directory /rdu/thomasco: No such file or directory

Re: [OMPI users] Segfault in orted (home directory problem)

2007-06-07 Thread Ralph Castain
Have you tried the --wdir option yet? It should let you set your working directory to anywhere. I don't believe it will require you to have a home directory on the backend nodes, though I can't sweathat ssh will be happy if you don't. Just do "mpirun -h" for a full list of options - it will descri

Re: [OMPI users] Segfault in orted (home directory problem)

2007-06-07 Thread Michael Edwards
That is the default behavior because having common home areas is fairly common, but with some work you can run your code from wherever is convenient. Using the -wd flag you can have the code run from wherever you want, but the code and data has to get there somehow. If you are using a batch sche

[OMPI users] Segfault in orted (home directory problem)

2007-06-07 Thread Guillaume THOMAS-COLLIGNON
I am trying to switch to OpenMPI, and I ran into a problem : my home directory must exist on all the nodes, or orted will crash. I have a "master" machine where I initiate the mpirun command. Then I have a bunch of slave machines, which will also execute the MPI job. My user exists on all the