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

[Michael Wayne Goodman]

LogonRedhat is still immutable, and as the PVM issue can plausibly
happen on other distributions, I went with Francis's suggestion and
documented the problem and fix at a new page
(http://wiki.delph-in.net/moin/LogonTroubleshooting). I was going to
link to it from http://wiki.delph-in.net/moin/LogonInstallation, but
that too is immutable for me, alas.

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Francis Bond <bond at ieee.org> wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>
>>
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>> --
>> -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
>



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-Michael Wayne Goodman