From: John Enright <enright@mit.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
Subject: V3.4 Release Problems with NT
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 15:17:29 -0400
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
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Problem 1: I seem to be having the same problems with using the hosts
file that some others have mentioned. This hostfile works fine under
3.4B6:

machine1 dx=d:\progra~1\pvm3.4\lib\win32\pvmd3.exe
machine2 dx=c:\progra~1\pvm3.4\lib\win32\pvmd3.exe

It does not add these hosts when I start the VM with "pvmd3 hostfile",
but it does load the contents. From the console I can type "add
machine1" without the 'dx' specifier, and the host will be added.

Problem 2: I seem to be getting a mysterious 'separation' of some of the
virtual machine:
1) Start PVM on host0
2) Observe that pvmd3 is running on host 1 & 2 as well
3) Start pvm console on host2. A *new* copy of pvmd3 starts up not
connected to the existing virtual machine. 

or 1-2 as above and:
3) spawn 2 copies of task 'foo' on each machine. Spawn succeeds.
4) On host2 processes are *not* running. Either 
		a) They never started
		b) pvm_mytid() failed and execution stopped. (1st LOC)
   Either way, these copies of 'foo' appear to be running on host2
when       you do a 'ps -a' at the pvm console. 

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance.

John Enright