Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: link@enif.astro.indiana.edu (Robert Link)
Subject: Re: arcane error message when starting pvm
Organization: Indiana University
Date: 19 Aug 1996 18:08:12 GMT
Message-ID: <4vaaic$eei@dismay.ucs.indiana.edu>

wjiang@apollo.hp.com (Weicheng Jiang) wrote:
>>  Also worth noting is that I I get the same set of
>>errors (i.e. the EOF and the ``expected version'') when I set
>>everything to manual startup (* so=ms), 
>
>Really? With manual startup the master pvmd reads whatever you copy to 
>the screen from the output of the slave daemon on another machine. The
>segment of the code that prints out "pl_startup() ... EOF" would never
>be executed in this case.
>
>What you might want to do is to download pvm3.3.11 (you're using 3.3.7) 
>from netlib.cs.utk.edu (under /pvm3) and install it in your HOME directory.
>Set PVM_ROOT to $HOME/pvm3 and see if you still have the same problem.
>If you're running AIX 4.1.x, versions of PVM prior to 3.3.11 cannot read 
>the hostfile.

I see.  We are indeed running AIX4.1.4, so this could be the problem.
Thanks for the tip.

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