Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: wjiang@apollo.hp.com (Weicheng Jiang)
Subject: Re: [Q] shmget error when starting program
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Chelmsford, MA
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 13:59:23 GMT
Message-ID: <DwnAuz.2uI@apollo.hp.com>

In article <321C2886.4648@rog.rwth-aachen.de>,
Axel Spohr  <spohr@rog.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I ran into a problem today the source of which I can not
>identify.
>When starting a program, I always get the following error
>message:
>
>libpvm [pid13113]: pvmbeatask() shmget: can't connect to pvmd: No such
>file or directory
>libpvm [pid13113]: pvm_mytid(): Can't contact local daemon

>pvmbeatask in libpvmshmem.c.

>btw, System is pvm3311/SUN4SOL2

SUN4SOL2 doesn't use shmget() or pvmshmem.c, you might have compiled
your PVM program for SUNMP instead. If you brought up the SUN4SOL2 version
of pvmd3 and ran a task compiled for SUNMP, you would see the said error
message.


-- 
Weicheng Jiang, Ph.D.            Chelmsford System Software Lab.
PVM Specialist                   Network Computing Division
Tel: 508-436-4613                Hewlett-Packard Company

