On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 09:43 -0400, Patrick Jessee wrote: > Hello. I've tracked down the source of the previously reported startup > problem with Openmpi 1.1. On startup, it fails with the messages: > > mca_oob_tcp_accept: accept() failed with errno 9. > : > > This didn't happen with 1.0.2. > > The trigger for this behavior is if standard input happens to be closed > before calling mpirun. In this particular case, mpirun was being > started by a wrapper Bourne shell script that had standard input > closed. It's fairly easy to reproduce. Interestingly, the problem is > not seen if standard input is opened from an arbitrary device such as > /dev/null. > > This is the first MPI with which we've seen this behavior, and it didn't > happen with 1.0.2 so something must have been introduced in 1.1. > Perhaps 1.1 makes some assumptions about the state of the standard file > descriptors. > > Hopefully this feedback is helpful to someone in resolving the problem.
Yup, in order to fix some other things with standard input that users rightly were complaining about, we changed some standard input handling between 1.0.2 and 1.1. My recommendation is to just tie it to /dev/null instead. We're unlikely to fix this issue in the near future. Brian
