Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: adamsch1 <adamsch1@netscape.com>
Subject: Re: pvm3.4beta6 cann't start group server
Organization: Netscape Communications Corporation
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 16:25:26 -0800
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Did you explicitly build the group server?  I had to.  The join group
example programs weren't working so I mucked around a bit and discovered
that the group server had never been built.  My bad.  After I built the
group server, I noticed that although pvm states that the group commands
should automatically start the group server process running if it hasn't
already, this was not the case in my experience.  I had to manually run the
group server in order for my applications to then work.

Cheers,
  Shane


Ray Glover wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have installed pvm3.4beta6 and xpvm1.2.4 on a Pentium under
> Linux 2.0.30 from RedHat4.2.  Apart from modifying the xpvm/src
> Makefile.aimk to define the library paths, pvm is as I unpacked it from
> netlib.
>
> The group examples in pvm3/gexamples give run-time errors:
>
>         gs_getgstid() failed to start group server: No such file...
>
> pvmgs is present in pvm3/bin/LINUX.
>
> I get similar messages from my application when it does
>
>         pvm_gettid("xpvm",....
>
> when trying to set up the trace masks.  However, xpvm now automatically
> picks up the traces from my application so I am able to ignore this.
>
> I would be grateful if anyone can shed some light on the problem.
>
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