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

```
$ which mpiexec
/usr/bin/mpiexec
```
Is this what you mean?

–Nico

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote:
> 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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