Hi Gus

Thanks for prompt response. Well judged, I compiled with /export/apps
prefix so that is most probably the reason. I'll check and update you.

Best wishes
Ahsan

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:07 PM, Gus Correa <g...@ldeo.columbia.edu> wrote:
> Hi Syed
>
> This really sounds as a problem specific to Rocks Clusters,
> not an issue with Open MPI.
> A confusion related to mount points, and soft links used by Rocks.
>
> I haven't used Rocks Clusters in a while,
> and I don't remember the details anymore, so please take my
> suggestions with a grain of salt, and check them out
> before committing to them
>
> Which --prefix did you use when you configured Open MPI?
> My suggestion is that you don't use "/export/apps" as a prefix
> (and this goes to any application that you install).
> but instead use a /share/apps subdirectory, something like:
>
> --prefix=/share/apps/openmpi-1.8.4_gcc-4.9.2
>
> This is because /export/apps is just a mount point on the
> frontend/head node, whereas /share/apps is a mount point
> across all nodes in the cluster (and, IIRR, a soft link on the
> head node).
>
> My recollection is that the Rocks documentation was obscure
> about this, not making clear the difference between
> /export/apps and /share/apps.
>
> Issuing the Rocks commands:
> "tentakel 'ls -d /export/apps'"
> "tentakel 'ls -d /share/apps'"
> may show something useful.
>
> I hope this helps,
> Gus Correa
>
>
> On 02/27/2015 11:47 AM, Syed Ahsan Ali wrote:
>>
>> I am trying to run openmpi application on my cluster.  But the mpirun
>> fails, simple hostname command gives this error
>>
>> [pmdtest@hpc bin]$ mpirun --host compute-0-0 hostname
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Sorry!  You were supposed to get help about:
>>      opal_init:startup:internal-failure
>> But I couldn't open the help file:
>>
>> /export/apps/openmpi-1.8.4_gcc-4.9.2/share/openmpi/help-opal-runtime.txt:
>> No such file or directory.  Sorry!
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Sorry!  You were supposed to get help about:
>>      orte_init:startup:internal-failure
>> But I couldn't open the help file:
>>      /export/apps/openmpi-1.8.4_gcc-4.9.2/share/openmpi/help-orte-runtime:
>> No such file or directory.  Sorry!
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> [compute-0-0.local:03410] [[INVALID],INVALID] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: Error in
>> file orted/orted_main.c at line 369
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> ORTE was unable to reliably start one or more daemons.
>>
>> I am using Environment modules to load OpenMPI 1.8.4 and PATH and
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH points to same openmpi on nodes
>>
>> [pmdtest@hpc bin]$ which mpirun
>> /share/apps/openmpi-1.8.4_gcc-4.9.2/bin/mpirun
>> [pmdtest@hpc bin]$ ssh compute-0-0
>> Last login: Sat Feb 28 02:15:50 2015 from hpc.local
>> Rocks Compute Node
>> Rocks 6.1.1 (Sand Boa)
>> Profile built 01:53 28-Feb-2015
>> Kickstarted 01:59 28-Feb-2015
>> [pmdtest@compute-0-0 ~]$ which mpirun
>> /share/apps/openmpi-1.8.4_gcc-4.9.2/bin/mpirun
>>
>> The only this I notice important is that in the error it is referring to
>>
>> /export/apps/openmpi-1.8.4_gcc-4.9.2/share/openmpi/help-opal-runtime.txt:
>>
>> While it should have shown
>> /share/apps/openmpi-1.8.4_gcc-4.9.2/share/openmpi/help-opal-runtime.txt:
>> which is the path compute nodes see.
>>
>> Please help!
>> Ahsan
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