[mpich-discuss] BLCR kernel module not present

[michael]

Hi folks
I was wondering what the state of BLCR for mpich/mvapich is? eg how
reliably can one presume it to be?
Thanks, Michael


On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 14:33 -0500, Wesley Bland wrote:

> It looks like you might have missed installing the kernel module for
> BLCR. What is the output of `lsmod`?
> 
> 
> 
> 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`.
> 
> 
> Do either of those solutions solve your issue?
> 
> 
> Wesley
> 
> 
> On Apr 26, 2013, at 1:55 PM, basma a.azeem
> <basmaabdelazeem at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Thank you for your help
> > 
> > 
> > i installed BLCR 0.8.5 on my ubuntu 12.10  to be used for
> > MPICH -3.0.3
> > this version of blcr should support to kernels through 3.7.1
> > 
> > when i run the command :
> > basma at basma-Satellite-A500:~$ mpiexec --info
> > 
> > results:
> > 
> > HYDRA build details:
> >     Version:                                 3.0.3
> >     Release Date:                            Thu Mar 28 16:01:21 CDT
> > 2013
> >     CC:                              gcc    
> >     CXX:                             c++    
> >     F77:                             no   
> >     F90:                             no   
> >     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'
> >     Process Manager:                         pmi
> >     Launchers available:                     ssh rsh fork slurm ll
> > lsf sge manual persist
> >     Topology libraries available:            hwloc
> >     Resource management kernels available:   user slurm ll lsf sge
> > pbs cobalt
> >     Checkpointing libraries available:       blcr
> >     Demux engines available:                 poll select
> > 
> > so i thought that every thing is ok but when i try to rum mpiexec it
> > failed:
> > 
> > basma at 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
> > 
> > results:
> > 
> > Fatal error in MPI_Init: Other MPI error, error stack:
> > MPIR_Init_thread(433)...: 
> > MPID_Init(151)..........: channel initialization failed
> > MPIDI_CH3_Init(70)......: 
> > MPID_nem_init(379)......: 
> > MPIDI_nem_ckpt_init(153): BLCR kernel module not present
> > Fatal error in MPI_Init: Other MPI error, error stack:
> > MPIR_Init_thread(433)...: 
> > MPID_Init(151)..........: channel initialization failed
> > MPIDI_CH3_Init(70)......: 
> > MPID_nem_init(379)......: 
> > MPIDI_nem_ckpt_init(153): BLCR kernel module not present
> > Fatal error in MPI_Init: Other MPI error, error stack:
> > MPIR_Init_thread(433)...: 
> > MPID_Init(151)..........: channel initialization failed
> > MPIDI_CH3_Init(70)......: 
> > MPID_nem_init(379)......: 
> > MPIDI_nem_ckpt_init(153): BLCR kernel module not present
> > Fatal error in MPI_Init: Other MPI error, error stack:
> > MPIR_Init_thread(433)...: 
> > MPID_Init(151)..........: channel initialization failed
> > MPIDI_CH3_Init(70)......: 
> > MPID_nem_init(379)......: 
> > MPIDI_nem_ckpt_init(153): BLCR kernel module not present
> > 
> > ===================================================================================
> > =   BAD TERMINATION OF ONE OF YOUR APPLICATION PROCESSES
> > =   EXIT CODE: 1
> > =   CLEANING UP REMAINING PROCESSES
> > =   YOU CAN IGNORE THE BELOW CLEANUP MESSAGES
> > ===================================================================================
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > i am a Linux and parallel programming beginner
> > 
> > Thank you
> > 
> > 
> > 
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