Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: Radoslaw Siekierzynski <radek@civil.ce.put.poznan.pl>
Subject: Re: Help can't add hosts on Win32
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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 13:08:57 +0100
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spod wrote:
> 
> I'm having my first go at Pvm (3.4 beta 3) on Win32 as part of my masters
>  sorry, for this project Unix is not suitable :-(  ) and I'm having trouble
> in that I get a "can't start Pvmd" message when trying to add hosts. Hoster
> starts up and hangs for a while and then quits( I'm assuming it times out).

First of all check if you have in your PVM_TMP directory a file:
pvmd.<uid>, where uid is your login name in system. If so - simply
remove it. 

HTH

Radoslaw Siekierzynski