This is just a thought:
according to the system() man page, 'SIGCHLD' is blocked during the
execution of the program. Since you are executing your command as a
daemon in the background, it will be permanently blocked.
Does OpenMPI daemon depend on SIGCHLD in any way? That is about the
only difference that I can think of between running the command
stand-alone (which works) and running via a system() API call (that
does not work).
Best
Durga
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Jeff Squyres <jsquy...@cisco.com> wrote:
> Which network transport are you using, and what version of Open MPI are you
> using? Do you have OpenFabrics support compiled into your Open MPI
> installation?
>
> If you're just using TCP and/or shared memory, I can't think of a reason
> immediately as to why this wouldn't work, but there may be a subtle
> interaction in there somewhere that causes badness (e.g., memory corruption).
>
>
> On Jan 19, 2012, at 1:57 AM, Randolph Pullen wrote:
>
>>
>> I have a section in my code running in rank 0 that must start a perl program
>> that it then connects to via a tcp socket.
>> The initialisation section is shown here:
>>
>> sprintf(buf, "%s/session_server.pl -p %d &", PATH,port);
>> int i = system(buf);
>> printf("system returned %d\n", i);
>>
>>
>> Some time after I run this code, while waiting for the data from the perl
>> program, the error below occurs:
>>
>> qplan connection
>> DCsession_fetch: waiting for Mcode data...
>> [dc1:05387] [[40050,1],0] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: A message is attempting to be sent
>> to a process whose contact information is unknown in file rml_oob_send.c at
>> line 105
>> [dc1:05387] [[40050,1],0] could not get route to [[INVALID],INVALID]
>> [dc1:05387] [[40050,1],0] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: A message is attempting to be sent
>> to a process whose contact information is unknown in file
>> base/plm_base_proxy.c at line 86
>>
>>
>> It seems that the linux system() call is breaking OpenMPI internal
>> connections. Removing the system() call and executing the perl code
>> externaly fixes the problem but I can't go into production like that as its
>> a security issue.
>>
>> Any ideas ?
>>
>> (environment: OpenMPI 1.4.1 on kernel Linux dc1
>> 2.6.18-274.3.1.el5.028stab094.3 using TCP and mpirun)
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