Hi sorry for posting too much, I tried running and I got this error, I assume that this is the stack of the calls before the error
Signal:11 info.si_errno:0(Success) si_code:2(SEGV_ACCERR) Failing at addr:0x8059b73 [0] func:/usr/local/bin/openmpi/lib/libopal.so.0 [0xb7e76ed0] [1] func:[0xffffe440] [2] func:/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(_IO_vfprintf+0x34b1) [0xb7d283a1] [3] func:/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(vsprintf+0x8b) [0xb7d4041b] [4] func:/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(sprintf+0x2b) [0xb7d2d76b] [5] func:./moaDist(mprintf+0x4a) [0x8056e96] [6] func:./moaDist(processArguments+0x90c) [0x804d60c] [7] func:./moaDist(main+0x197) [0x804aa4b] [8] func:/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd2) [0xb7cfeea2] [9] func:./moaDist [0x804a079] *** End of error message *** I am not sure if its an IO error; I tried on the web site to search the mailing archives, but it takes me to google search, and I am not sure if there is any documentation to understand the error messages, Thanks again, Manal