From: Igor Volovichev (salamanca_at_bk.ru)
Date: Thu Mar 12 2009 - 07:29:53 PDT
Dear Paul, I had the same 3 tests failed. Thank you very much for your prompt reply! Igor. > Igor, > > Thanks for reporting your "make check" failures before proceeding to use > BLCR. To answer your last question first: Yes, it should be safe to use BLCR > with OpenMPI and Torque on your system. > > Before today I had not used MC. However, when I tried it I was able to > reproduce your problem on the first try, using a system that has not shown any > BLCR test failures in the past. So, to answer your first question: this > *does* appear to be "normal" behavior, or at least this is not something > specific to your environment. > > Running inside MC I saw the following failures and no others: > >> Detected 3 failures in ./cs_enter_leave.st: >> #ST_ALARM:60 >> !!! Alarm clock expired >> !!! Missing final DONE >> !!! Test killed unexpectedly by signal 9 >> FAIL: cs_enter_leave.st >> Detected 3 failures in ./cs_enter_leave2.st: >> #ST_ALARM:60 >> !!! Alarm clock expired >> !!! Missing final DONE >> !!! Test killed unexpectedly by signal 9 >> FAIL: cs_enter_leave2.st >> Detected 3 failures in ./cr_tryenter_cs.st: >> #ST_ALARM:60 >> !!! Alarm clock expired >> !!! Missing final DONE >> !!! Test killed unexpectedly by signal 9 >> FAIL: cr_tryenter_cs.st > > These three tests are written very similarly and while I don't know the source > of the problem yet, it is almost certainly the same cause for all three. I > hope to understand (and then resolve) the root cause, but for now you are safe > ignoring this problem (as long as the tests all pass when run under bash). > > Could you please confirm that you see only these three tests fail? > > -Paul > > Igor Volovichev wrote: >> I faced strange problem: when I do "make check" under Midnight Commander >> some test fail (e.g. sc_enter_leave*, etc.). Whereas from bash promt all test >> pass. Moreover, in MC redirecting stderr to a file (make check >> 2>/tmp/some_file) make test pass too. Is it normal behavior or there is >> something wrong with blcr in my environment? Is it safe to use blcr with >> OpenMPI and Torque? Thanks to all for an advice. > > -- > Paul H. Hargrove PHHargrove_at_lbl_dot_gov > Future Technologies Group > HPC Research Department Tel: +1-510-495-2352 > Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Fax: +1-510-486-6900