Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: jacobs@netcom.com (Allan Jacobs)
Subject: Re: PVM on Cluster of Suns
Organization: Applied Parallel Research (Topanga)
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 03:01:01 GMT
Message-ID: <jacobsCzG0Dq.L9z@netcom.com>

cpr4k@eureka.med.Virginia.EDU (Chris Roberts) writes:

>I am trying to run PVM3.3.3 on a cluster of Suns, SGI's, and RS6K's.  
>They are configured so that my directory is visible to each using NIS.  
>They share a password file and a netgroup file.  If I use the pvm console,
>I keep getting the message 'Can't start pvmd' for any machine I try to add.
>If I use a hostfile and specify dx=/pvm/lib/pvmd, where the daemon lives,
>I can get the RS6K's to fire from the Sun, but can't get another Sun or
>SGI to fire.  I am using ksh, as well.

>Can anyone suggest something here?  

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I got this error today when I switched from PVM3.2.x to PVM3.3.5.  There
is a bug somewhere in PVM3.3.5.  After some trial and error, I found
a workaround.  Simply moving the assignment of PVM_ROOT in my .cshrc
files to somewhere very near the top makes the problem go away.

This assumes that your .rhost files are set up correctly and your
environment is set up correctly.  There are, it seems, many ways to
run into this problem.

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