Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: lawton@src.dec.com (Jim Lawton)
Subject: Re: Startup problems
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: 15 Jun 1994 12:03:04 GMT
Message-ID: <2tmqlo$odm@src-news.pa.dec.com>

In article <CrExGK.9t@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil> skip@taygeta.oc.nps.navy.mil (Skip Carter) writes:
>	I just upgraded from V3.2 to V3.3.0 and I am beginning to
>	wonder if it was a good idea.  I USED to have no startup problems,
>	but now the remote machines never seem to start up.  If I try
>	to 'add' from within the pvm console, I get 'duplicate host' messages
>	even though 'conf' does not show them to be there.

Have you tried deleting old PVM log files in /tmp on all the machines you're
trying to start it on? The presence of old log files from a PVM session that
ended uncleanly is usually the source of these 'duplicate host' message, at least
for me.

/jim



