Allan,

If you can still boot the old embedded system, a lot of times the config 
parameters are saved as /proc/config.gz.  You can at least them compare the two 
configs.

Larry Baker
US Geological Survey
650-329-5608
ba...@usgs.gov



On 25 Nov 2014, at 11:11 AM, Allan Wu wrote:

> Thanks Paul! Unfortunately '/boot' is not available in my embedded linux, and 
> I do not have the configuration file for the old kernel since it is provided 
> as is. However, I have the new kernel configuration since I compiled it 
> myself. Would it be helpful if I provide you the .config file when I compile 
> the kernel? It maybe quite painful to look through that file though. Is there 
> any other way that I can obtain the configuration? 
> 
> I checked my config for the new kernel, and UNIX-domain sockets and Sys V IPC 
> are both enabled in the build. Are there any other possibilities I can check?
> 
> Thanks,
> Di
> 
> --
> Di Wu (Allan)
> PhD student, VAST Laboratory,
> Department of Computer Science, UC Los Angeles
> Email: al...@cs.ucla.edu
> 
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Paul Hargrove <phhargr...@lbl.gov> wrote:
> Allan,
> 
> A likely possibility is that some important kernel feature (that Open MPI 
> assumes is present) is missing.
> That includes not only "kernel modules" as you mention, but also features 
> configure in (or out) of the base kernel.
> For instance, some embedded kernels omit UNIX-domain sockets and SysV IPC 
> support.
> 
> If you can send me (preferably off-list) the kernel config files for the old 
> an new kernels I may be able to spot something.
> If present, you are looking for /boot/config-[VERSION]
> 
> -Paul
> 
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Allan Wu <al...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> I'm sorry I forgot to change the subject when I reply to the digest issue. 
> Please find my original email below. 
> 
> Regards,
> Di
> 
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Allan Wu <al...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> Thanks Ralph for the reply. Sorry about the log file, I think I forgot to put 
> an extension to the file. Please find a new one attached with this email. 
> 
> I'm sorry for not enough debugging information, but 'omp_info' and 
> '--debug-devel' are the only ways I know for collecting information, are 
> there any other things I can try to provide more info?
> 
> When I execute 'mpirun --debug-devel -np 1 ./helloworld', all the output is 
> the logging information in my last email. It got stuck at  "[fpga1:00718] 
> tmp: /tmp", and nothing from my helloworld program is printed out to the 
> screen. So I think it is mpirun failing to start my executable, not failing 
> to terminate.
> 
> I was wondering if this has anything to do with my newer kernel version, 
> since it works well in the old case. 
> 
> Thanks,
> --
> Di Wu (Allan)
> PhD student, VAST Laboratory,
> Department of Computer Science, UC Los Angeles
> Email: al...@cs.ucla.edu
> 
> 
> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 07:29:51 -0800
> From: Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org>
> To: Open MPI Developers <de...@open-mpi.org>
> Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] OpenMPI v1.8 and v1.8.3 mpirun hangs at
>         execution       on an embedded ARM Linux kernel version 3.15.0
> Message-ID: <898cb117-f6a6-4569-89c3-49b75d65b...@open-mpi.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> 
> I don?t know what you put in that log file, but it was an executable and I?m 
> not feeling that trusting :-)
> 
> I?m afraid there isn?t enough debug output there to really tell anything. 
> From what little I can see, I?m guessing that the application ran fine and 
> you got the usual ?hello? output and the helloworld process exited safely - 
> is that correct? And so it is solely mpirun that is failing to cleanly 
> terminate?
> 
> 
> > On Nov 24, 2014, at 11:24 PM, Allan Wu <al...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I have cross-compiled OpenMPI for an embedded ARM Linux. Everything works 
> > fine for my system based on Linux 3.8.0. I have previously submitted a post 
> > related to my compilation, which can be found here: 
> > http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2014/04/14440.php 
> > <http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2014/04/14440.php>. When I 
> > recently upgraded my Linux kernel to 3.15.0, mpirun begins to stuck at even 
> > the helloworld program. The program consists only simple APIs: MPI_Init, 
> > MPI_Comm_size, MPI_Comm_rank, MPI_Finalize. The problem occurs even at 
> > 'mpirun -np 1 ./helloworld', and below are the output with --debug-devel 
> > (before it got stuck):
> > [fpga1:00716] sess_dir_finalize: job session dir not empty - leaving
> > [fpga1:00716] procdir: /tmp/openmpi-sessions-root@fpga1_0/63813/0/0
> > [fpga1:00716] jobdir: /tmp/openmpi-sessions-root@fpga1_0/63813/0
> > [fpga1:00716] top: openmpi-sessions-root@fpga1_0
> > [fpga1:00716] tmp: /tmp
> > [fpga1:00718] procdir: /tmp/openmpi-sessions-root@fpga1_0/63813/1/0
> > [fpga1:00718] jobdir: /tmp/openmpi-sessions-root@fpga1_0/63813/1
> > [fpga1:00718] top: openmpi-sessions-root@fpga1_0
> > [fpga1:00718] tmp: /tmp
> >
> > I suspect maybe it is due to incompatible kernel version or some missing 
> > kernel modules. I tried also with the latest version 1.8.3, and had the 
> > same problem. Does anyone have any thoughts? I have attached the output of 
> > 'ompi-info --all' with this email.
> >
> > Please let me know if I need to provide more information. Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Regards,
> > --
> > Di Wu (Allan)
> > PhD student, VAST?Laboratory <http://vast.cs.ucla.edu/>,
> > Department of Computer Science, UC Los Angeles
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