Just curious -- what docs are you referring to? I don't see opal_signal referred to in the README, orterun.1, or the faq...
On Mar 20, 2013, at 11:32 AM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote: > Simple to do - I added a clearer error message to the trunk and marked it for > inclusion in the eventual v1.7.1 release. I'll have to let someone else do > the docs as I don't fully grok the rationale behind it. > > Thanks > > On Mar 18, 2013, at 12:56 PM, Jeremiah Willcock <jewil...@osl.iu.edu> wrote: > >> If a user gives an invalid value for the opal_signal MCA parameter, such as >> in the command: >> >> mpirun -mca opal_signal x /bin/ls >> >> the error produced by Open MPI 1.6.3 is: >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> It looks like opal_init failed for some reason; your parallel process is >> likely to abort. There are many reasons that a parallel process can >> fail during opal_init; some of which are due to configuration or >> environment problems. This failure appears to be an internal failure; >> here's some additional information (which may only be relevant to an >> Open MPI developer): >> >> opal_util_register_stackhandlers failed >> --> Returned value -5 instead of OPAL_SUCCESS >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> which claims to be an internal error, not an invalid argument given by a >> user. That parameter also appears to be poorly documented in general >> (mentioned in ompi_info -a and on the mailing lists), and seems like it >> would be an incredibly useful debugging tool when running a crashing >> application under a debugger. >> >> -- Jeremiah Willcock >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/
