[mpich-discuss] turning off MPI abort messages

[Jeff Hammond]

Just configure MPICH such that snprintf isn't discovered by configure
and you won't see these messages.

The other solution is to fix PETSc so that people can't crash it so easily ;-)

Jeff

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Jim Dinan <james.dinan at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you can find a way to call MPI_Finalize instead, you will portably
> eliminate these messages.
>
> A lesser solution would be to provide an error code of 0 (or MPI_SUCCESS) to
> MPI_Abort, e.g. MPI_Comm_abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, MPI_SUCCESS).  This would
> eliminate the error message that you are getting from the job launcher.
> MPICH could be modified to be quiet about the abort when the application
> aborts with an error code of MPI_SUCCESS.
>
>  ~Jim.
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>>
>>
>>    Is there any way to turn off MPICH (and others) printing messages about
>> MPI_Abort?  We have already prepared and presented useful error messages to
>> the user about the situation and would like to avoid having these additional
>> messages printed (that often make the situation look worse than it is)
>>
>>     Thanks
>>
>>    Barry
>>
>> application called MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 56) - process 0
>> [cli_0]: aborting job:
>> application called MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 56) - process 0
>>
>>
>> ==================================================================mailto:discuss at mpich.org=================
>> =   BAD TERMINATION OF ONE OF YOUR APPLICATION PROCESSES
>> =   EXIT CODE: 56
>> =   CLEANING UP REMAINING PROCESSES
>> =   YOU CAN IGNORE THE BELOW CLEANUP MESSAGES
>>
>> ===================================================================================
>>
>>
>>
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