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

[Francis Bond]

G'day,

as the solutions for one distribution are often similar to those for
another distribution, can I propose the LogonRedhat page be renamed
LogonTroubleshooting (or as just redone as a new section at the bottom
ot he installation page, as we do for the LKB)?    Unless we somehow
expect Redhat to have a host of system specific problems, which seems
unlikely :-).

On 2 September 2011 06:44, Michael Wayne Goodman
<goodmami at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> 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
>>
>
>
>
> --
> -Michael Wayne Goodman
>



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Francis Bond <http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/fcbond/>
Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
Nanyang Technological University