[itsdb] [incr tsdb()] and PVM problems

[Michael Wayne Goodman]

Thanks Stephan, editing /etc/hosts as described appears to have fixed
that problem.

I will document this fix at http://wiki.delph-in.net/moin/LogonRedhat
as soon as the wiki is made mutable (*nudge*).

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Stephan Oepen <stephan.oepen at gmail.com> wrote:
> looks like an invalid network configuration to me: i'm guessing
> hostname(1) returns ‘goodmami-tablet’, but gethostbyname(3)
> for that name comes up blank (as it should, given the hosts(5)
> file you sent).  try adding ‘goodmami-tablet’ to the 127.0.0.1
> line in ‘/etc/hosts’.
>
> the LOGON PVM and any non-LOGON version will /not/ work
> together.  please stick to the LOGON binaries.
>
> best, oe
>
>
> On Sep 1, 2011, at 11:44 PM, Michael Wayne Goodman <goodmami at u.washington.edu> wrote:
>
>> My google-fu skills must be a bit rusty, or there is just very little
>> information about troubleshooting pvm available online. Apologies if
>> I'm missing something obvious.
>>
>> Note that I did not have pvm installed before I sent my initial email,
>> so the LOGON code should have been using the binaries at
>> logon/lingo/lkb//bin/linux.x86.64/. I have now installed pvm in Fedora
>> with "yum install pvm". Also note that there is no "pvmd3" command
>> available from this installed package, only "pvm".
>>
>> Here is the output of some commands. Maybe you'll notice something I don't:
>>
>> $ which pvm
>> /usr/bin/pvm
>> $ ls -A /tmp/ | grep pvm
>> $ pvm
>> libpvm [pid6800] /tmp/pvmd.500: No such file or directory
>> libpvm [pid6800]: Console: Can't start pvmd
>> $ ls -A /tmp/ | grep pvm
>> pvml.500
>> $ cat /tmp/pvml.500
>> [pvmd pid6806] 09/01 14:35:11 master_config() goodmami-tablet: can't
>> gethostbyname
>> [pvmd pid6806] 09/01 14:35:11 pvmbailout(0)
>>
>> Running the LOGON-supplied version yields the same result:
>>
>> $ ~/Development/logon/lingo/lkb/bin/linux.x86.64/pvmd3
>> [pvmd pid6810] 09/01 14:36:00 master_config() goodmami-tablet: can't
>> gethostbyname
>> [pvmd pid6810] 09/01 14:36:00 pvmbailout(0)
>>
>> As far as I can tell, /etc/hosts is set up as normal:
>>
>> $ cat /etc/hosts
>> 127.0.0.1        localhost.localdomain localhost
>> ::1        localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
>>
>> Starting pvm with localhost explicitly seems to work:
>>
>> $ pvm -nlocalhost
>> pvm>
>>
>> Is there a reason why pvmd3 cannot find the host by name?
>>
>> Thanks for any help
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Francis Bond <bond at ieee.org> wrote:
>>> G'day,
>>>
>>> On 30 August 2011 17:24, Stephan Oepen <stephan.oepen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> your troubles are actually unrelated to mike's, francis.  when
>>>> i checked in the PVM updates on sunday, i had failed to also
>>>> regenerate run-time binaries.  i did that last night only, so if
>>>> you update from SVN again now, i expect all will be good.
>>>>
>>>> my apologies for this hiccup, oe
>>>
>>> No worries.  If only all my problems were solved so easily.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Francis Bond <http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/fcbond/>
>>> Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
>>> Nanyang Technological University
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> -Michael Wayne Goodman
>



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-Michael Wayne Goodman