Hi Simone Just to clarify: is your application threaded? Could you please send the OMPI configure cmd you used?
Adding the debug flags just changes the race condition. Interestingly, those values only impact the behavior of mpirun, so it looks like the race condition is occurring there. On Sep 6, 2011, at 3:01 AM, Simone Pellegrini wrote: > Dear all, > I am developing an MPI application which uses heavily MPI_Spawn. Usually > everything works fine for the first hundred spawn but after a while the > application exist with a curious message: > > [arch-top:27712] [[36904,165],0] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: Data unpack would read past > end of buffer in file base/grpcomm_base_modex.c at line 349 > [arch-top:27712] [[36904,165],0] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: Data unpack would read past > end of buffer in file grpcomm_bad_module.c at line 518 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > It looks like MPI_INIT failed for some reason; your parallel process is > likely to abort. There are many reasons that a parallel process can > fail during MPI_INIT; some of which are due to configuration or environment > problems. This failure appears to be an internal failure; here's some > additional information (which may only be relevant to an Open MPI > developer): > > ompi_proc_set_arch failed > --> Returned "Data unpack would read past end of buffer" (-26) instead of > "Success" (0) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > *** The MPI_Init_thread() function was called before MPI_INIT was invoked. > *** This is disallowed by the MPI standard. > *** Your MPI job will now abort. > [arch-top:27712] Abort before MPI_INIT completed successfully; not able to > guarantee that all other processes were killed! > [arch-top:27714] [[36904,165],0] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: Data unpack would read past > end of buffer in file base/grpcomm_base_modex.c at line 349 > [arch-top:27714] [[36904,165],0] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: Data unpack would read past > end of buffer in file grpcomm_bad_module.c at line 518 > *** The MPI_Init_thread() function was called before MPI_INIT was invoked. > *** This is disallowed by the MPI standard. > *** Your MPI job will now abort. > [arch-top:27714] Abort before MPI_INIT completed successfully; not able to > guarantee that all other processes were killed! > [arch-top:27226] 1 more process has sent help message help-mpi-runtime / > mpi_init:startup:internal-failure > [arch-top:27226] Set MCA parameter "orte_base_help_aggregate" to 0 to see all > help / error messages > > Also using MPI_init instead of MPI_Init_thread does not help, the same error > occurs. > > Strangely the error does not occur if I run the code enabling debug in (-mca > plm_base_verbose 5 -mca rmaps_base_verbose 5). > > I am using OpenMPI 1.5.3 > > cheers, Simone > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users
