[mpich-discuss] Error when running

Pavan Balaji balaji at mcs.anl.gov
Sun Dec 23 21:31:37 CST 2012


The problem seems to be that the proxy is created, but it is providing
an ID which is outside the expected range.  The likely problem here is
that you are running this on a combination of 32-bit and 64-bit
machines, in which case mpiexec would get very confused.  Is this the case?

 -- Pavan

On 11/15/2012 08:12 AM US Central Time, Will Dixon wrote:
> I am making a cluster for Francis Marion University and can't figure out
> how to get rid of this error. I understand what it is stating. A proxy
> is created but it can't find it once created. I think it isn't creating
> a proxy. The other errors seem to roll off errors from the proxy error.
> I tried looking up PMI but could find anything relative.
> I get this error every time I try to use mpirun -np 6 ./hello I have 6
> ibook g3's that have powerpc processors and a headnode that is a tower
> that runs intel. I installed mpich2 on the headnode and on one of the
> slaves. I copied the slave's mpich to the others. I am able to ssh
> without any password to the slaves using rsa. my HYDRA_HOST_FILE
> environment variable is /mpich2/hosts
> 
> [mpiexec at headnode] HYD_pmcd_pmiserv_proxy_init_cb
> (./pm/pmiserv/pmiserv_cb.c:529): cannot find proxy with ID 33554432
> [mpiexec at headnode] HYDT_dmxu_poll_wait_for_event
> (./tools/demux/demux_poll.c:77): callback returned error status
> [mpiexec at headnode] HYD_pmci_wait_for_completion
> (./pm/pmiserv/pmiserv_pmci.c:196): error waiting for event
> [mpiexec at headnode] main (./ui/mpich/mpiexec.c:325): process manager
> error waiting for completion
> 
> I am able using c3 to run cexecs 'date' and they all return a date no
> problem. my /mpich2/hosts looks like:
> 
> node01
> node02
> node03
> node04
> node05
> node07
> 
> The headnode has two Ethernet ports one going to the internet and the
> other to a switch with the slaves connected to them. They are all
> running Debian Linux 6.0.6.
> Help would be much appreciated.
> Sincerely,
> Will Dixon
> 
> 
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Pavan Balaji
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