<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1256"><base href="x-msg://2034/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">It looks like you might have missed installing the kernel module for BLCR. What is the output of `lsmod`?<div><br></div><div>Alternatively, if you installed BLCR by using apt-get in Ubuntu, you should be able to use dkms to manage your kernel modules automatically. Make sure you have the package 'blcr-dkms' installed (you should be able to check this by typing `dims status`.</div><div><br></div><div>Do either of those solutions solve your issue?</div><div><br></div><div>Wesley</div><div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 26, 2013, at 1:55 PM, basma a.azeem <<a href="mailto:basmaabdelazeem@hotmail.com">basmaabdelazeem@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br><div dir="ltr"><font color="#AC193D">T</font><font color="#AC193D">hank you for your help</font><font color="#AC193D"><br></font><font color="#AC193D"><br></font><br><font color="#AC193D">i installed</font><font size="2" color="#AC193D" style="font-size: 10pt; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>BLCR 0.8.5 on my ubuntu 12.10 </font><font color="#AC193D"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to be used for MPICH<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#AC193D">-3.0.3<br>this version of blcr should support<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><span style="font-weight: normal; ">to kernels through 3.7.1</span><font color="#AC193D"><br><br>when i run<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#AC193D">the command :</font><font color="#AC193D"><br></font><font color="#AC193D">basma@basma-Satellite-A500:~$ mpiexec --info</font><br><br>results:<br><br>HYDRA build details:<br> Version: 3.0.3<br> Release Date: Thu Mar 28 16:01:21 CDT 2013<br> CC: gcc <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br> CXX: c++ <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br> F77: no <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br> F90: no <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br> Configure options: '--disable-option-checking' '--prefix=/home/basma/mpich2-install' '--disable-f77' '--disable-fc' '--enable-checkpointing' '--with-hydra-ckpointlib=blcr' '--cache-file=/dev/null' '--srcdir=.' 'CC=gcc' 'CFLAGS= -O2' 'LDFLAGS= ' 'LIBS=-lrt -lcr -lpthread ' 'CPPFLAGS= -I/home/basma/libraries/mpich-3.0.3/src/mpl/include -I/home/basma/libraries/mpich-3.0.3/src/mpl/include -I/home/basma/libraries/mpich-3.0.3/src/openpa/src -I/home/basma/libraries/mpich-3.0.3/src/openpa/src -I/home/basma/libraries/mpich-3.0.3/src/mpi/romio/include'<br> Process Manager: pmi<br> Launchers available: ssh rsh fork slurm ll lsf sge manual persist<br> Topology libraries available: hwloc<br> Resource management kernels available: user slurm ll lsf sge pbs cobalt<br> Checkpointing libraries available: blcr<br> Demux engines available: poll select<br><br><font color="#AC193D">so i thought that every thing is ok but when i try to rum mpiexec it failed:</font><br><br>basma@basma-Satellite-A500:~$ mpiexec -ckpointlib blcr -ckpoint-prefix /home/business/ckpts/app.ckpoint -ckpoint-interval 3600 -n 4 /home/basma/libraries/mpich-3.0.3/examples/cpi<br><br>results:<br><br>Fatal error in MPI_Init: Other MPI error, error stack:<br>MPIR_Init_thread(433)...:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>MPID_Init(151)..........: channel initialization failed<br>MPIDI_CH3_Init(70)......:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>MPID_nem_init(379)......:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>MPIDI_nem_ckpt_init(153): BLCR kernel module not present<br>Fatal error in MPI_Init: Other MPI error, error stack:<br>MPIR_Init_thread(433)...:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>MPID_Init(151)..........: channel initialization failed<br>MPIDI_CH3_Init(70)......:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>MPID_nem_init(379)......:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>MPIDI_nem_ckpt_init(153): BLCR kernel module not present<br>Fatal error in MPI_Init: Other MPI error, error stack:<br>MPIR_Init_thread(433)...:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>MPID_Init(151)..........: channel initialization failed<br>MPIDI_CH3_Init(70)......:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>MPID_nem_init(379)......:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>MPIDI_nem_ckpt_init(153): BLCR kernel module not present<br>Fatal error in MPI_Init: Other MPI error, error stack:<br>MPIR_Init_thread(433)...:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>MPID_Init(151)..........: channel initialization failed<br>MPIDI_CH3_Init(70)......:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>MPID_nem_init(379)......:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>MPIDI_nem_ckpt_init(153): BLCR kernel module not present<br><br>===================================================================================<br>= BAD TERMINATION OF ONE OF YOUR APPLICATION PROCESSES<br>= EXIT CODE: 1<br>= CLEANING UP REMAINING PROCESSES<br>= YOU CAN IGNORE THE BELOW CLEANUP MESSAGES<br>===================================================================================<br><br><br><font color="#AC193D"> </font><font color="#AC193D"><br></font><font color="#AC193D">i am a Linux and parallel programming beginner</font><font color="#AC193D"><br></font><font color="#AC193D"><br></font><font color="#AC193D">Thank you</font><br><br><br></div></div><span style="font-family: Calibri; 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