You should check that your path would also hit /usr/bin/mpiexec and not some 
other version of it

On Sep 17, 2014, at 4:01 PM, Nico Schlömer <nico.schloe...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all!
> 
> Today, I observed a really funky behavior of my stock
> ```
> $ mpiexec --version
> mpiexec (OpenRTE) 1.6.5
> 
> Report bugs to http://www.open-mpi.org/community/help/
> ```
> on Ubuntu 14.04. When running one of my test codes with
> ```
> $ mpiexec -n 2 ioTest
> [...]
> ```
> all is fine. If instead I use the full path of mpiexec, I get a
> different behavior
> ```
> $ /usr/bin/mpiexec -n 2 ioTest
> [...]
> (exception thrown)
> ```
> I was puzzled, so skimmed the manpage and found that the `--prefix`
> option might have something to do with it. I played around and got
> ```
> $ /usr/bin/mpiexec --prefix . -n 2 ioTest
> [fuji:21003] *** Process received signal ***
> [fuji:21003] Signal: Segmentation fault (11)
> [fuji:21003] Signal code: Address not mapped (1)
> [fuji:21003] Failing at address: 0x1000000dd
> [fuji:21003] [ 0] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0(+0x10340)
> [0x7f12e4069340]
> [fuji:21003] [ 1] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(_IO_vfprintf+0x1d13)
> [0x7f12e3cde8f3]
> [fuji:21003] [ 2]
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__vasprintf_chk+0xb5) [0x7f12e3d9e035]
> [fuji:21003] [ 3]
> /usr/lib/libopen-rte.so.4(opal_show_help_vstring+0x343)
> [0x7f12e43043e3]
> [fuji:21003] [ 4] /usr/lib/libopen-rte.so.4(orte_show_help+0xaf)
> [0x7f12e42a5faf]
> [fuji:21003] [ 5] /usr/bin/mpiexec() [0x403ab3]
> [fuji:21003] [ 6] /usr/bin/mpiexec() [0x40347d]
> [fuji:21003] [ 7]
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5)
> [0x7f12e3cb4ec5]
> [fuji:21003] [ 8] /usr/bin/mpiexec() [0x403399]
> [fuji:21003] *** End of error message ***
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> ```
> That's tough!
> 
> Should I try to reproduce this with a more recent version? Any idea
> what the reason for the different behavior of `mpiexec` and
> `/usr/bin/mpiexec` might be?
> 
> Cheers,
> Nico
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