I believe what this is saying is that we are not finding any TCP interfaces - the ioctl itself is failing. So yes - miprun failing at that point is going to happen because we have no way to communicate for launch.
Do you see interfaces if you do an /sbin/ifconfig? Do they have valid IP addresses? On Dec 1, 2009, at 5:52 PM, Jeff Squyres wrote: > On Nov 29, 2009, at 6:15 PM, <kevin.buck...@ecs.vuw.ac.nz> > <kevin.buck...@ecs.vuw.ac.nz> wrote: > >> $ mpirun -n 4 hello_f77 >> [somebox.ecs.vuw.ac.nz:04414] opal_ifinit: ioctl(SIOCGIFFLAGS) failed with >> errno=6 >> > > Oy. This is ick, because this error code is coming from horrendously complex > code deep in the depths of OMPI that is probing the OS to figure out what > ethernet interfaces you have. It may or may not be simple to fix this. > > Do you mind diving into the OMPI code a bit to figure this out? I'm afraid > that none of the developers are likely to have access to NetBSD. :-( I can > point you right where to look. > >> When running on a "server" machine within the grid, a machine I am told >> should not be any different to the workstation I was using above in >> respect of user environment, I get a different error and find that the >> job does not run at all. >> >> This case seems to producean error message that is oft reported within >> the OpenMPI community: >> >> $ mpirun -n 4 hello_f77 >> [somebox2.ecs.vuw.ac.nz:25244] [[51186,0],0] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: Error in file >> ess_hnp_module.c at line 150 >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> It looks like orte_init failed for some reason; your parallel process is >> ... >> >> orte_rml_base_select failed >> --> Returned value Error (-1) instead of ORTE_SUCCESS >> > > This could well be a side-effect of the same error as above -- OMPI may have > concluded that it didn't find any ethernet devices and therefore aborted. > > -- > Jeff Squyres > jsquy...@cisco.com > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users
