First, let me ensure we have a common understanding of what orte_launch_agent does. Basically, that param stipulates the command to be used in place of "orted" - it doesn't substitute for "ssh". So if you set -mca orte_launch_agent foo, what will happen is: "ssh nodename foo" instead of "ssh nodename orted".
The intent was to provide a way to do things like run valgrind on the orted itself. So you could do -mca orte_launch_agent "valgrind orted", and we would dutifully run "ssh nodename valrind orted".
Or if you wanted to write your own orted (e.g., bar-orted), you could substitute it for our "orted".
Or if you wanted to set mca params solely to be seen on the backend nodes/procs, you could set -mca orte_launch_agent "orted -mca foo bar", and we would launch "ssh nodename orted -mca foo bar". This allows us to set mca params without having mpirun see them - helps us to look at debug output, for example, from only the backend procs.
If what you need to do is set something in the environment for the orted, there are certain cmd line options that will do that for you - orte_launch_agent may or may not be a good method.
Perhaps it would help if you could tell me exactly what you wanted to have orte_launch_agent actually do?
Thanks Ralph On Sep 24, 2008, at 12:22 PM, Will Portnoy wrote:
Sorry for the miscommunication: The processes are started by my program with MPI_Comm_spawn, so there was no mpirun involved. If you can suggest a test program I can use with mpirun to validate my openmpi environment and install, that would probably produce the output you would like to see. But I'm not sure that will make it clear how the file pointed to by "orte_launch_agent" in "mca-params.conf" should be written to setup an environment and start orted. Will On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Ralph Castain <r...@lanl.gov> wrote:Afraid I am confused. This was the entire output from the job?? If so, then that means mpirun itself wasn't able to find a launch environment it coulduse, so you never got to the point of actually launching an orted.Do you have ssh in your path? My best immediate guess is that you don't, and that mpirun therefore doesn't see anything it can use to launch a job. We have discussed internally that we need to improve that error message - couldbe this is another case emphasizing that point.1.3 is fine to use - still patching some bugs, but nothing that shouldimpact this issue. Ralph On Sep 24, 2008, at 12:11 PM, Will Portnoy wrote:That was the output with plm_base_verbose set to 99 - it's the same output with 1. Yes, I'd like to use ssh. orted wasn't starting properly with orte_launch_agent (which wasneeded because my environment on the target machine wasn't set up), sothat's why I thought I would try it directly on the command line on localhost. I thought this was a simpler case: to verify that orted could find all of its necessary components without the complexity of everything else I'm doing.If I needed to use orte_launch_agent, how should I pass the necessaryparameters to start orted after I set up my environment? Am I better off using trunk over 1.3? thank you, Will On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Ralph Castain <r...@lanl.gov> wrote:Could you rerun that with -mca plm_base_verbose 1? What environment areyou in - I assume rsh/ssh?I would like to see the cmd line being used to launch the orted. Whatthisindicates is that we are not getting the cmd line correct. Could just be that some patch in the trunk didn't get completely applied to the 1.3branch.BTW: you probably can't run orted directly off of the cmd line. It likelyneeds some cmd line params to get critical info. Ralph On Sep 24, 2008, at 9:47 AM, Will Portnoy wrote:I'm trying to use MPI_Comm_Spawn with MPI_Info's host key to spawnprocesses from a process not started with mpirun. This works with the host key set to the localhost's hostname, but it does not work when Iuse other hosts.I'm using version 1.3a1r19602. I need to use orte_launch_agent to setup my environment a bit before orted is started, but it fails with errors listed below.When I try to run orted directly on the command line with some of theverbosity flags turned to "11", I receive the same messages. Does anybody have any suggestions? thank you, Will[fqdn:24761] mca: base: components_open: Looking for ess components[fqdn:24761] mca: base: components_open: opening ess components[fqdn:24761] mca: base: components_open: found loaded component env [fqdn:24761] mca: base: components_open: component env has no registerfunction[fqdn:24761] mca: base: components_open: component env open functionsuccessful[fqdn:24761] mca: base: components_open: found loaded component hnp [fqdn:24761] mca: base: components_open: component hnp has no registerfunction[fqdn:24761] mca: base: components_open: component hnp open functionsuccessful [fqdn:24761] mca: base: components_open: found loaded component singleton[fqdn:24761] mca: base: components_open: component singleton has noregister function [fqdn:24761] mca: base: components_open: component singleton open function successful[fqdn:24761] mca: base: components_open: found loaded component slurm[fqdn:24761] mca: base: components_open: component slurm has no register function[fqdn:24761] mca: base: components_open: component slurm open functionsuccessful[fqdn:24761] mca: base: components_open: found loaded component tool [fqdn:24761] mca: base: components_open: component tool has no registerfunction[fqdn:24761] mca: base: components_open: component tool open functionsuccessful [fqdn:24761] mca:base:select: Auto-selecting ess components [fqdn:24761] mca:base:select:( ess) Querying component [env][fqdn:24761] mca:base:select:( ess) Skipping component [env]. Queryfailed to return a module [fqdn:24761] mca:base:select:( ess) Querying component [hnp][fqdn:24761] mca:base:select:( ess) Skipping component [hnp]. Queryfailed to return a module[fqdn:24761] mca:base:select:( ess) Querying component [singleton] [fqdn:24761] mca:base:select:( ess) Skipping component [singleton].Query failed to return a module [fqdn:24761] mca:base:select:( ess) Querying component [slurm][fqdn:24761] mca:base:select:( ess) Skipping component [slurm]. Queryfailed to return a module [fqdn:24761] mca:base:select:( ess) Querying component [tool][fqdn:24761] mca:base:select:( ess) Skipping component [tool]. Queryfailed to return a module [fqdn:24761] mca:base:select:( ess) No component selected! [fqdn:24761] [[INVALID],INVALID] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: Not found in file runtime/orte_init.c at line 125 --------------------------------------------------------------------------It looks like orte_init failed for some reason; your parallel process is likely to abort. There are many reasons that a parallel process canfail during orte_init; some of which are due to configuration orenvironment problems. This failure appears to be an internal failure; here's some additional information (which may only be relevant to anOpen MPI developer): orte_ess_base_select failed --> Returned value Not found (-13) instead of ORTE_SUCCESS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [fqdn:24761] [[INVALID],INVALID] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: Not found in file orted/orted_main.c at line 315 _______________________________________________ users mailing list us...@open-mpi.org http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users_______________________________________________ users mailing list us...@open-mpi.org http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users_______________________________________________ users mailing list us...@open-mpi.org http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users_______________________________________________ users mailing list us...@open-mpi.org http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users_______________________________________________ users mailing list us...@open-mpi.org http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users
