It's been reported to me that using current SVN head debugger attach support is broken, both the MPIR interface and the orte-ps command are returning no data for the hostnames and process identifiers of launched jobs.
The v1.5 download is fine, I've checked that on both counts but a checkout of the trunk exhibits the problem. ashley@cloud1:~/code/padb-read-only/src$ orte-ps Information from mpirun [59875,0] --------------------------------- JobID | State | Slots | Num Procs | ------------------------------------------ [59875,1] | Running | 1 | 0 | Process Name | ORTE Name | Local Rank | PID | Node | State | ------------------------------------------------------ $ gdb -p <pidof mpirun> (gdb) p MPIR_proctable $1 = (struct MPIR_PROCDESC *) 0x0 (gdb) p MPIR_proctable_size $2 = 0 (gdb) p MPIR_PROCDESC ashley@cloud1:~/code/padb-read-only/src$ ./padb -Ormgr=mpirun -a --proc-summary -Odebug Ashley. -- Ashley Pittman, Bath, UK. Padb - A parallel job inspection tool for cluster computing http://padb.pittman.org.uk