Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: digulla@fh-konstanz.de (Aaron Digulla)
Subject: Re: PVM_ROOT undefined
Organization: University of Constance
Date: 28 Jul 1994 09:17:34 GMT
Message-ID: <317t3e$8ej@hermes.uni-konstanz.de>

Juerg Thoeny (thoeny@ito.umnw.ethz.ch) wrote:
> I just installed pvm 3.3.3 on my sun4 network. I can startup pvm on every
> machine. The daemon seem to run. My problem is that the ADD command
> won't work:
> pvm> add okee
> 0 successful
>		      HOST     DTID
>		      okee Can't start pvmd

> the file /tmp/pvmd.XXXX contains:
> /usr/tmp/aaaa26312

> the file /tmp/pvml.XXX contains:
> [t80040000] ready  3.3.3   Tue Jul 26 10:57:58 1994
> [t80000000] pvmd@okee: PVM_ROOT: Undefined variable.^J
> [t80000000] pl_startup() pvmd@okee: EOF
> [t80040000] startack() host okee expected version

> If I use the command HALT
> the console says:
> pvm> halt
> libpvm [t40005]: mxfer() EOF on pvmd sock
> Strange, isn't it?
> Any help?

Try to change the #define PVMDIR in src/global.h and tell us what happens.
This problem occurs on HPUX, too.

--
Optimizer (Aaron Digulla)

"(to) optimize: Make a program faster by improving the algorithms rather than
by buying a faster machine."

