Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: Graham E Fagg <fagg@cuspidor.cs.utk.edu>
Subject: Re: Running PVM on Solaris 2.4 and 2.5
Organization: Computer Science Dept, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 13:07:24 -0400
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On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Antoine Jonas wrote:

> Dear PVM users,
> But when I try to run my application on a Solaris 2.4 or a Solaris 2.5
> workstation, I can't get the UNIX prompt anymore.
> Does anyone have already heard about this problem ?
> Antoine.
Never as badly as this, no...

I have run pvm on a network of 20 Linux boxes (slackware) 40 SS1
SunOS4.1.3 and 16 Solaris 2.4 machines (Classics and ELC's)
What I did find, is that when mixing solaris machines with the SunOS
machines is that the VM lasts longer when master daemon is started on one
of the solaris machines... strange but true.

Also try compiling on the Solaris machines with each of the 3 compilers...
/usr/ucb/cc /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc* and GCC if you have it.
(It worked for me using just the ucb compilers on all the Suns, and the 
standard GCC compiler on the Linux boxes)

* Remember when using this compiler that make(1L) might be in /usr/ccs/bin

Usually problems with PVM are caused nonstandard actions of pipes and 
sockets.

Good luck,


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