Re: charmrun: execve failed to start; intel dual core Redhat

From: Richard Baxter (Richard.Baxter_at_utsouthwestern.edu)
Date: Sat Nov 03 2007 - 23:24:50 CDT

Sorry, answered my own question by reading the NAMD 2.6 User manual,
section on Running NAMD for individual Unix workstations:

"You may need to specify the full path to the namd2 binary"

> Dear All,
>
> I am trying to run a namd jop on a Dell Precision 390 with intel Dual
> core, Redhat Linux. Here is the output from uname -vra
>
> Linux xxx.xxx.edu 2.6.9-5.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jan 5 19:29:47 EST 2005
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>
> namd is installed on NFS mounted disk, we type 'setup namd' to load
> the program.
>
>
> the ubiquitin-in-a-sphere job runs fine as a single process, But not
> using charmrun as regular user. However, the charmrun job can be run
> as root. My system administrator will not let me run as root, so can
> anyone tell me what he needs to change, is this likely a permission
> problem or a compilation problem?
>
>
> Any advice greatly appreciated,
>
>
> Richard Baxter
> Deisenhofer Lab
> UT Southwestern Medical Center
>
>
> % namd2 ubq_ws5_eq.conf
> Charm++: standalone mode (not using charmrun)
> Info: NAMD 2.6 for Linux-i686
> ..
>
> % charmrun namd2 ++verbose ++local +p1 ubq_ws5_eq.conf
> Charmrun> charmrun started...
> Charmrun> adding client 0: "127.0.0.1", IP:127.0.0.1
> Charmrun> Charmrun = 127.0.0.1, port = 33322
> Charmrun> start 0 node program on localhost.
> execve failed to start process "namd2" with status: -1
> Killed
> % charmrun namd2 ++verbose ++local +p2 ubq_ws5_eq.conf
> Charmrun> charmrun started...
> Charmrun> adding client 0: "127.0.0.1", IP:127.0.0.1
> Charmrun> adding client 1: "127.0.0.1", IP:127.0.0.1
> Charmrun> Charmrun = 127.0.0.1, port = 33310
> Charmrun> start 0 node program on localhost.
> execve failed to start process "namd2" with status: -1
> Killed

-- 
Richard Baxter <Richard.Baxter_at_UTSouthwestern.edu>
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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