[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#906337: Any clue how to circumvent issues with MPI on autobuilders

[Johannes Ring]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 9:21 AM, Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:

> Control: tags -1 help
>
> Hi,
>
> in the bug log of #906337 the test suite aborts with
>
> ...
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> MPI_ABORT was invoked on rank 0 in communicator MPI_COMM_WORLD
> with errorcode 1.
>
> NOTE: invoking MPI_ABORT causes Open MPI to kill all MPI processes.
> You may or may not see output from other processes, depending on
> exactly when Open MPI kills them.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> E: Build killed with signal TERM after 60 minutes of inactivity
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> --------------------
> ...
>
>
> Since I have no experience with MPI but I know that on Debian Science
> are people with experience hanging around, I take the freedom to ask
> here for help.  I suspect that the test suite assumes some MPI features
> which are not available on any autobuilder machine.  Any idea what to
> do in this case?
>

In debian/rules in dolfin, we use the following to allow test programs to
run with OpenMPI:

  export OMPI_MCA_plm_rsh_agent=/bin/false

Maybe that will fix your problem.

Johannes
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