Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: gary@srtest.com (Gary Greenstein)
Subject: Re: SunOS/Solaris Blues
Organization: Sunrise Test Systems
Date: 31 Mar 1995 01:56:54 GMT
Message-ID: <3lfnh6$6tb@viewlog.viewlogic.com>

David White (dwhite@trout.mrj.com) wrote:
: Greetings, all!  The network I use has recently been given Sparc 20s (it had
: 2s and 10s).  We *have* to use these things, which only run Solaris 2.x.
: I tested the PVM daemons on it (compiled and linked under SunOS 4.1.3), and
: they ran.  Tried to link under Solaris... no dice.

: OK, so I recompiled PVM for Solaris, & linked with my app, also compiled
: under Solaris.  Everything seemed OK until I ran it.

: The application does not see the PVM daemon on the 20, even if the application
: started the daemon!  My one thought is that somehow the code which checks the
: lock file and hooks up to the socket is OS dependent.  Is this true?  I didn't
: think so, but the things sure doesn't see that daemon.  So, I must have
: separate pvmd3 files for these two machines?  Yuk.  Please confirm, and
: thanks for the sanity check (from a Solaris 2.x newbie).

: Dave White

We've also had trouble with PVM (3.3.3) and Solaris.  I've been using the 
backwards-compatibility mode lately, with better success. 

An older posting to this newsgroup once complained about running a Solaris-compiled
console, saying that just flat-out didn't work.

Not only am I'm a Solaris 2.x newbie, I'm a PVM newbie, so I'm not sure exactly 
what's going on either.  We have had success with various other platforms, however,
so I'm relatively certain there are Solaris-related problems with PVM.

-Gary Greenstein
gary@srtest.com

