What does this error mean?

[Kevin Van Workum]

On 1/29/08, Pete Wyckoff <pw at osc.edu> wrote:
> vanw at tticluster.com wrote on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:19 -0500:
> > Can you please interpret this error for me:
> >
> > mpiexec: Error: read_keyvals: no '=' found in keyval 4 of line: cmd.
> >
> > I get this error if my command line is either of the following:
> >
> > mpiexec -allstdin -comm=mpich2-pmi -verbose a.out blah blah blah
> > mpiexec -allstdin -comm mpich2-pmi -verbose a.out blah blah blah
> >
> > I should note that a.out was built with Intel MPI.
>
> That's coming from part of the PMI message exchange between starting
> processes and mpiexec.  The Intel MPI is somewhat of a rare find in
> the wild.  If you run with lots of "-v -v -v", it will print out all
> the details and we may be able to guess why it's unhappy.
>
>                 -- Pete
>

Here's the error message and some surrounding messages. Let me know if
you need more of the earlier debug output.

mpiexec: handle_pmi: rank 7 spawn 0 kvsname 53001.jman-spawn-0.
mpiexec: read_keyvals: keyval 0 key cmd val get_my_kvsname.
mpiexec: handle_pmi: cmd=get_my_kvsname.
mpiexec: do_child: poll got 1.
mpiexec: handle_pmi: rank 0 spawn 0 kvsname 53001.jman-spawn-0.
mpiexec: read_keyvals: keyval 0 key cmd val put.
mpiexec: read_keyvals: keyval 1 key kvsname val 53001.jman-spawn-0.
mpiexec: read_keyvals: keyval 2 key key val DAPL_PROVIDER.
mpiexec: read_keyvals: keyval 3 key value val <NULL.
mpiexec: Error: read_keyvals: no '=' found in keyval 4 of line: cmd.
mpiexec: process_obit_event: evt 10 task 0 on n143104 stat 13.
mpiexec: process_obit_event: evt 11 task 1 on n143104 stat 13.
mpiexec: process_obit_event: evt 12 task 2 on n143104 stat 13.
mpiexec: process_obit_event: evt 13 task 3 on n143104 stat 13.
mpiexec: process_obit_event: evt 14 task 4 on n143101 stat 13.
mpiexec: process_obit_event: evt 15 task 5 on n143101 stat 13.
mpiexec: process_obit_event: evt 16 task 6 on n143101 stat 13.
mpiexec: process_obit_event: evt 17 task 7 on n143101 stat 13.
mpiexec: stdio_msg_parent_read: pipe closed.
mpiexec: kill_stdio: sent SIGTERM, waiting on 25806.
mpiexec: Warning: tasks 0-7 exited with status 13.

-- 
Kevin