Re: [ptp-dev] PTP running on my second Linux box

[Clement Chu <clement.chu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Beth,

Beth Tibbitts wrote:

> I just got PTP running on my second Linux machine (IBM's version of Red Hat
> - 4.2.1.6 i think).
> I built OpenMPI, and  the PTP C projects from the command line.
> It was lots easier this time.  Experience I guess.
>
> Observations:
> 1. the C projects (orte, sdm, proxy, utils) all indicate problems in the
> Eclipse PDE in my workspace.
>      Complaints say "No rule to make target 'all'   and 'clean'
>      I built them from the command line, though, and am ignoring these.
> Seems to be OK.
> 2. The first time I brought it up it complained about not finding ORTE, and
> set everything to simulated mode.
>      However i changed it all back to ORTE, ran my cleanupOmpi script
> (kills orte daemons and deletes temp files),
>      relaunched, and all was well.
> 3. I had to remember to set the debugger to SDM in the launch
> configuration.  It always defaults to nothing.
> 4. I have to keep remembering to run cleanupOmpi after each run.  Then
> relaunch my runtime workspace (that runs PTP)
>      User sees "Invocation Target Exception" which is the symptom of
> needing to do this.
>  
Can I have the error message of Invocation Target Exception? I think you 
can find it in "Error log view". Thanks.

>      We could probably catch this and give a more meaningful error
> message.
>      When my committer status is final (REAL SOON NOW), I could probably
> do that.
> 5. I get a lot of "workspace in use" errors and have to  delete the .lock
> file in my runtime workspace.
>      Don't know if that's something to do with PTP, or just a flakiness of
> Eclipse on Linux.
>
> I haven't run anything more than "hello MPI world,"  but I'm a happy camper
> right now.
>
> =============cleanupOmpi.sh==============  per Greg's instructions a while
> back.
> #!/bin/sh
> echo OpenMPI cleanup for PTP...
> echo killing orted processes
> killall -9 orted
>
> echo killing ompi_server processes
> killall -9 orte_server
>
> echo kill dsm or gdb processes if were debugging
> killall -9 sdm gdb
>
> echo Remove any directories starting with openmpi in /tmp
> rm -rf /tmp/openmpi*
>
>
>
> ...Beth
>
> Beth Tibbitts  (859) 243-4981  (TL 545-4981)
> IBM T.J.Watson Research Center
> Mailing Address:  IBM Corp., 455 Park Place, Lexington, KY 40511
>
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Regards,
Clement

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Clement Kam Man Chu
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School of Computer Science & Software Engineering
Monash University, Caulfield Campus
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